What's new in Clzip 1.6 Pre1
Feb 11, 2014
- 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).
- "clzip.texinfo" has been renamed to "clzip.texi".
New in Clzip 1.5 (Oct 3, 2013)
- Clzip now shows the progress of compression at verbosity level 2 (-vv).
- Decompressing and testing no more show file version.
- Option "-n, --threads" is now accepted and ignored for compatibility with plzip.
- The configure script now accepts options with a separate argument.
New in Clzip 1.5 RC1 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Decompressing and testing no longer show the file version.
- Minor fixes have been made.
New in Clzip 1.5 Pre1 (May 17, 2013)
- Decompression time has been reduced by 1%.
- The file version is now shown only if verbosity >= 4.
- The option "-n, --threads" is now accepted and ignored for compatibility with plzip.
- "configure" now accepts options with a separate argument.
New in Clzip 1.4 (Mar 5, 2013)
- Compression ratio has been slightly increased.
- Compression time has been reduced by 10%.
- Decompression time has been reduced by 8%.
- The targets "install-as-lzip" and "install-bin" have been added to the Makefile.
New in Clzip 1.4 RC2 (Jan 17, 2013)
- Compression ratio has been slightly increased.
- Compression time has been reduced by 10%.
- Decompression time has been reduced by 8%.
New in Clzip 1.3 RC1 (Jan 10, 2012)
- The inability to change output file attributes has been downgraded from an error to a warning.
- A small change has been made in the "--help" output and man page.
- Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding Standards.
New in Clzip 1.2 RC1 (Apr 21, 2011)
- For large values of "--match-length", compression ratio has been slightly increased and compression time has been reduced by up to 6%.
- The option "-F, --recompress" was added, which forces recompression of files whose names already have the ".lz" or ".tlz" suffix.
- Clzip now prints only one status line for each multimember file when only one "-v" is specified.
New in Clzip 1.1 (Jan 17, 2011)
- The code has been converted to "C89 + long long".
- A C99 compiler is no longer needed.
- A warning about fchown's return value being ignored has been fixed.
- "clzip -tvvvv" now also shows file compression ratio.
- Match length limits set by the options -1 to -9 have been changed to match those of lzip 1.11.
- The message "and `--stdout' was not specified" is not shown for file types that can't be read (directories, etc.).
- Some new examples have been added to the manual.
New in Clzip 1.1 RC2 (Dec 9, 2010)
- Do not show the message "and `--stdout' was not specified" for file types that can't be read (directories, etc.).