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[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.14 released


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: [Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.14 released
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:53:10 +0100
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I am pleased to announce the release of pdlzip 1.14.

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.

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.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files.

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:
647c2285cbe77d8f81a36ac5eb2d0b73bf2e2929e1e4efa91361162b890d54df pdlzip-1.14.tar.lz 60772d160a79adf8dcd9e3838f94e2d85e717f3b69c66d49834bb754221301ce pdlzip-1.14.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 --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

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


Changes in version 1.14:

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


Please send bug reports and suggestions to lzip-bug@nongnu.org


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip 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 Thanks




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