What's new in Lziprecover 1.16
Jun 16, 2015
- Compression ratio of option '-9' has been slightly increased.
- Compression time has been reduced by 4%.
- Compression time of option '-0' has been reduced by 2%.
- main.cc (close_and_set_permissions): Behave like 'cp -p'.
- Minor improvements.
- lzip.texinfo: Renamed to lzip.texi.
- License changed to GPL version 2 or later.
New in Lziprecover 1.15 RC1 (Aug 6, 2013)
- Minor changes have been made.
- The chapter "Unzcrash" has been added to the manual.
New in Lziprecover 1.14 / 1.15 Pre2 (Jun 11, 2013)
- The new option "-i, --ignore-errors", which in conjunction with "-D" decompresses all the recoverable data in all members of a file without having to split it first, has been added.
- Option "-l, --list" now accepts more than one file.
- Decompression time has been reduced by 12%.
- "--split" now uses as few digits as possible in the names of the files produced, depending on the number of members in the input file.
- "--split" in verbose mode now shows the names of files being created.
- The targets "install-as-lzip" and "install-bin" have been added to the Makefile.
New in Lziprecover 1.14 RC3 (Apr 30, 2013)
- The new option "-i, --ignore-errors", which in conjunction with "-D" decompresses all the recoverable data in all members of a file without having to split it first, has been added. "--split" now uses as few digits as possible in the names of the files produced, depending on the number of members in the input file. "--split" in verbose mode now shows the names of the files being created.
New in Lziprecover 1.14 RC2 (Mar 27, 2013)
- This version adds minor fixes.
- When decompressing or testing, the file version is now shown only if verbosity is >= 4.
New in Lziprecover 1.15 Pre1 (Mar 26, 2013)
- Decompression time has been reduced by 1%.
- File version is now shown only if verbosity >= 4.
- The option "-n, --threads" is now accepted and ignored for compatibility with plzip.
- The chapter "Stream Format" and the appendix "Reference source code" have been added to the manual.
New in Lziprecover 1.14 RC1 (Mar 1, 2013)
- The option "-l, --list" now accepts more than one file.
- Decompression time has been reduced by 12%.
- The targets "install-as-lzip" and "install-bin" have been added to the Makefile.
New in Lziprecover 1.13 (Mar 1, 2013)
- Lziprecover is now distributed in its own package. Until version 1.12 it was included in the lzip package. Previous entries in this file are taken from there.
- lziprecover.cc: Renamed to main.cc.
- New files merge.cc, repair.cc, split.cc, and range_dec.cc.
- main.cc: Added decompressor options (-c, -d, -k, -t) so that a external decompressor is not needed for recovery nor for "make check".
- Added new option '-D, --range-decompress' which extracts a range of bytes decompressing only the members containing the desired data.
- Added new option '-l, --list' which prints correct total file sizes and ratios even for multi-member files.
- merge.cc repair.cc: Remove output file if recovery fails.
- Changed quote characters in messages as advised by GNU Standards.
- split.cc: Use Boyer-Moore algorithm to search for headers.
- configure: 'datadir' renamed to 'datarootdir'.