I am pleased to announce the release of lzip 1.17.
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.
A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with
the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
A benchmark can be found at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/
The sha1sums are:
22273e85fa3d019d5127ab4fd3a8f327c9aab90f lzip-1.17.tar.lz
d023f1e95202e45b50656833d09eee1a8c7bd9d6 lzip-1.17.tar.gz
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.
Changes in version 1.17:
* The compression code has been reorganized to ease the porting of
the fast encoder to clzip and lzlib.
* The new chapter "Quality assurance" has been added to the manual.
* The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress",
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to
the Makefile.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.
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