Lzip 1.26-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.26-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.26-rc1.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
ccea429022c24489d60e90b4e86902b4f0218840c687014d787eb199fd3a17ef
lzip-1.26-rc1.tar.lz
6945db08bfa07bb71142a6b45f237d0521bb2f5679546143e269f3e3b06c2d14
lzip-1.26-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 uses a simplified form of LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm) designed to achieve complete interoperability between
implementations. The maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip
file can be decompressed on 32-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and
robust 3-factor integrity checking. 'lzip -0' compresses about as fast as
gzip, while 'lzip -9' compresses most files more than bzip2. Decompression
speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip provides better data
recovery capabilities than gzip and bzip2. Lzip has been designed, written,
and tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as general-purpose
compressed format for Unix-like systems.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
Changes in this version:
* '-dvv' and '-tvv' now print (de)compressed sizes instead of compression
ratio. (Sizes are more informative than compression ratio).
* Large numbers in option arguments are now accepted with underscore
separators (-s 123_456_789).
* Large numbers are now printed with underscore separators (123_456_789).
* '-h' now prints a short help screen containing only the command-line
options. For full help, use '--help'.
* '--list' now can safely skip any trailing data added to a lzip file by
the option '--append' of lziprecover.
* '--list' now prints '+t' after the number of members to indicate the
presence of trailing data, and prints the size of the trailing data below
the size of the last member.
* '-lvv' now prints a blank line between the list of members of each
multimember file and the next file.
* Several improvements suggested by John Gilmore have been made to the
manual.
* 'EXIT STATUS' now has its own section in the man page.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-diaz-lzip/
