[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.2-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.2-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-1.2-pre1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
2fbca2f13ff185f1e9824b8fa34ffba79fb7197f  plzip-1.2-pre1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor 
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines 
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression 
ratio. Note that the number of usable threads is limited by file size, 
so on files larger than a few GB plzip can use hundreds of processors, 
but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster than lzip.

Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully 
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.

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

  * Individual limits have been set on the number of packets produced 
by each decompresor worker thread to limit the amount of memory used in 
all cases.

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


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