[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.12-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.12-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.12-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.12-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
6b191de102bad83b47f1ce9cd480a8778611fc9cfad4eeec1b48bb91f20ec82f 
plzip-1.12-rc1.tar.lz
3ee240c87a22776cce37c90691155cad9b11e3ef7e7d7688d4eaccfb6b0764cc 
plzip-1.12-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of lzip. Plzip 
uses the compression library lzlib.

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.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines much 
faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4 
to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number of usable 
threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB plzip can use 
hundreds of processors, but on files smaller than 1 MiB plzip is no faster 
than lzip (not even at compression level -0).

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

Changes in this version:

  * plzip now exits with error status 2 if any empty member is found in a 
multimember file.

  * Scalability when decompressing to standard output has been increased.

  * The chapter 'Syntax of command-line arguments' has been added to the 
manual.


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

--
If you know someone who is using gzip, bzip2, or xz, please tell him/her 
about the advantages of switching to lzip. See
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html