Lzip 1.18-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.18-rc3.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.18-rc3.tar.gz
The sha1sums are:
08db995ab778ff640174591e56c7b665025986c4 lzip-1.18-rc3.tar.lz
a6e92a148c3ffcc91d4af849b8e3e92bdd1ca6d9 lzip-1.18-rc3.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the
one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip is about as fast as gzip, compresses most
files more than bzip2, and is better than both from a data recovery
perspective.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
* The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
(one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files,
and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked
merging of damaged copies of a file.
* The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
lzip manual provides the code of a simple decompressor along with a
detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only help of
the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital archaeologist to
extract the data from a lzip file long after quantum computers
eventually render LZMA obsolete.
* Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
guarantees that it will remain free forever.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
Changes in this version:
* End Of File on a truncated member header is now detected more
accurately.
This is the last release candidate before 1.18 stable. Please, test it.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.
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