[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.16-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.16-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.16-pre1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
8eb4bbf9637c1c568ad741c4e8e9c26d536e67aa  lzip-1.16-pre1.tar.lz

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. Lzip is a clean implementation of the LZMA algorithm.

The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving. It is 
clean, provides very safe 4 factor integrity checking, and is backed by 
the recovery capabilities of lziprecover.

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


Changes in this version:

  * Copying of file dates, permissions, and ownership now behaves like 
"cp -p". (If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file 
permission bits S_ISUID and S_ISGID are cleared).

  * Compression time has been reduced by 4%.

  * Some minor improvements have been made.

  * "lzip.texinfo" has been renamed to "lzip.texi".


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.