Lzip 1.19-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-rc1.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
171ae321431962af5f03a8d28ee5c0b76499b2219d1ed4093599a084fbb0ab40
lzip-1.19-rc1.tar.lz
c8d6cf7f384febe612c496e7bb6c2f815a6a68883e09946620fc6e4665c34dfd
lzip-1.19-rc1.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 can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0),
or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is
intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2
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 source 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:
* In test mode, lzip now continues checking the rest of the files if
any input file is a terminal.
* Trailing data are now shown both in hexadecimal and as a string of
printable ASCII characters.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.
--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox
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