[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.10 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of pdlzip 1.10.

Pdlzip is a permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data 
compressor, intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL 
licensed Free Software. (The name of pdlzip comes from 'public domain 
lzip'). Pdlzip is written in C and is (hope)fully compatible with lzip 
1.4 or newer.

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.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files. 
Lzma-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If 
you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to 
lzip format. Lziprecover can convert some lzma-alone files to lzip 
format without recompressing.

Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK 
(Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/

The sha256sums are:
79d154cd745972991747beb0ad3d047387f9f616d26a83d7f22b837f6ef96d4c 
pdlzip-1.10.tar.lz
c1545fbea02c8c127ee97f0a7f8c0bcb076f2d8cb0ad902720dddcead5517750 
pdlzip-1.10.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because 
you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.10:

  * Compression level '-0' now uses a dictionary size of 64 KiB instead 
of 1 MiB.

  * Errors are now also checked when closing the input file.

  * Pdlzip now compiles on DOS with DJGPP. (Patch from Robert Riebisch).

  * The configure script now accepts appending options to CFLAGS using 
the syntax 'CFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.

  * It has been documented in INSTALL the use of
    CFLAGS+='-D __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO' when compiling on MinGW.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.

--
If you care about long-term archiving, please help me replace xz with 
lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.