2024-03-01 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.24.1 released. * main.cc: Fix compilation failure on MinGW because of mkdir. 2024-01-26 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.24 released. * New options '--empty-error' and '--marking-error'. * main.cc: Reformat file diagnostics as 'PROGRAM: FILE: MESSAGE'. (show_option_error): New function showing argument and option name. (main): Make -o preserve date/mode/owner if 1 input file. (open_outstream): Create missing intermediate directories. * lzip.h: Rename verify_* to check_*. * configure, Makefile.in: New variable 'MAKEINFO'. * testsuite: New test files fox6.lz, fox6_mark.lz. 2022-01-24 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.23 released. * Decompression time has been reduced by 5-12% depending on the file. * main.cc (getnum): Show option name and valid range if error. * Improve several descriptions in manual, '--help', and man page. * lzip.texi: Change GNU Texinfo category to 'Compression'. (Reported by Alfred M. Szmidt). 2021-01-04 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.22 released. * main.cc (main): Report an error if a file name is empty. Make '-o' behave like '-c', but writing to file instead of stdout. Make '-c' and '-o' check whether the output is a terminal only once. Do not open output if input is a terminal. * configure: Build, check, and install without 'make'. * Replace 'decompressed', 'compressed' with 'out', 'in' in output. * lzip_index.cc: Improve messages for corruption in last header. * main.cc: Set a valid invocation_name even if argc == 0. * Document extraction from tar.lz in manual, '--help', and man page. * lzip.texi (Introduction): Mention plzip and tarlz as alternatives. * lzip.texi: Several fixes and improvements. * testsuite: Add 9 new test files. 2019-01-03 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.21 released. * Rename File_* to Lzip_*. * lzip.h (Lzip_trailer): New function 'verify_consistency'. * lzip_index.cc: Detect some kinds of corrupt trailers. * main.cc (main): Check return value of close( infd ). * main.cc: Compile on DOS with DJGPP. * Fix a GCC warning about catching std::bad_alloc by value. * lzip.texi: Improve description of '-0..-9', '-m', and '-s'. * configure: Accept appending to CXXFLAGS; 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'. * INSTALL: Document use of CXXFLAGS+='-D __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO'. 2018-02-11 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.20 released. * New option '--loose-trailing'. * Improve corrupt header detection to HD=3. * main.cc: Show corrupt or truncated header in multimember file. * main.cc (main): Option '-S, --volume-size' now keeps input files. * encoder_base.*: Adjust dictionary size for each member. * Replace 'bits/byte' with inverse compression ratio in output. * Show progress of decompression at verbosity level 2 (-vv). * Show progress of (de)compression only if stderr is a terminal. * main.cc: Show final diagnostic when testing multiple files. * main.cc: Do not add a second extension '.lz' to the arg of '-o'. * decoder.cc (verify_trailer): Show stored sizes also in hex. Show dictionary size at verbosity level 4 (-vvvv). * lzip.texi: New chapter 'Meaning of lzip's output'. 2017-04-13 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.19 released. * The option '-l, --list' has been ported from lziprecover. * Don't allow mixing different operations (-d, -l or -t). * Compression time of option '-0' has been slightly reduced. * Decompression time has been reduced by 2%. * main.cc: Continue testing if any input file is a terminal. * main.cc: Show trailing data in both hexadecimal and ASCII. * encoder.cc (Matchfinder_base): Check the size passed to new. * lzip_index.cc: Improve detection of bad dict and trailing data. * lzip.h: Unify messages for bad magic, trailing data, etc. 2016-05-14 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.18 released. * New option '-a, --trailing-error'. * Decompression time has been reduced by 2%. * decoder.cc (verify_trailer): Remove test of final code. * main.cc (main): Delete '--output' file if infd is a terminal. * main.cc (main): Don't use stdin more than once. * Remove decompression support for version 0 files. * lzip.texi: New chapter 'Trailing data'. * configure: Avoid warning on some shells when testing for g++. * Makefile.in: Detect the existence of install-info. * check.sh: A POSIX shell is required to run the tests. * check.sh: Don't check error messages. 2015-07-12 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.17 released. * Reorganization of the compression code. * lzip.texi: New chapter 'Quality assurance'. * Makefile.in: New targets 'install*-compress'. 2014-08-26 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.16 released. * 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: Rename to lzip.texi. * Change license to GPL version 2 or later. 2013-09-20 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.15 released. * Show progress of compression at verbosity level 2 (-vv). * main.cc (show_header): Don't show header version. * Ignore option '-n, --threads' for compatibility with plzip. * configure: Options now accept a separate argument. * lzip.texinfo: New chapter 'Stream format' and appendix 'Reference source code'. 2013-02-17 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.14 released. * Multi-step trials have been implemented. * Compression ratio has been slightly increased. * Compression time has been reduced by 5%. * Decompression time has been reduced by 12%. * Makefile.in: New target 'install-bin'. * main.cc: Use 'setmode' instead of '_setmode' on Windows and OS/2. * main.cc: Define 'strtoull' to 'std::strtoul' on Windows. 2012-02-24 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.13 released. * Lziprecover has been moved to its own package. * main.cc (close_and_set_permissions): Inability to change output file attributes has been downgraded from error to warning. * Compression time of option '-0' has been reduced by 2%. * Reorganization of the compression code. * Small change in '--help' output and man page. * Change quote characters in messages as advised by GNU Standards. * configure: Rename 'datadir' to 'datarootdir'. * 'unzcrash.cc' has been moved to package 'lziprecover'. 2011-04-30 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.12 released. * New option '-F, --recompress'. * encoder.h (update_prices): Update high length symbol prices independently of the value of 'pos_state'. This gives better compression for large values of '--match-length' without being slower. * encoder.h, encoder.cc: Optimize pair price calculations, reducing compression time for large values of '--match-length' by up to 6%. * Compression time of option '-0' has been reduced by 2%. * main.cc (decompress): Print only one status line for each multimember file when only one '-v' is specified. * main.cc (decompress): Print up to 6 bytes of trailing data when '-vvvv' is specified. * main.cc (open_instream): Don't show the message " and '--stdout' was not specified" for directories, etc. * lziprecover.cc: If '-v' is not specified show errors only. * unzcrash.cc: Use Arg_parser. * unzcrash.cc: New options '-b, --bits', '-p, --position', and '-s, --size'. 2010-09-16 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.11 released. * New option '-0', which produces a compression speed and ratio comparable to those of 'gzip -9'. * fast_encoder.h, fast_encoder.cc: New files. * main.cc: Match length limit set by options -1 to -8 has been reduced to extend range of use towards gzip. Lower numbers now compress less but faster. (-1 now takes 43% less time for only 20% larger compressed size). Exit with status 1 if any output file exists and is skipped. * Compression ratio of option '-9' has been slightly increased. * lziprecover.cc: New option '-m, --merge', which tries to produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more damaged copies. * lziprecover.cc: New option '-R, --repair' for repairing a 1-byte error in single-member files. * decoder.cc (decode_member): Detect file errors earlier to improve efficiency of lziprecover's new repair capability. This change also prevents (harmless) access to uninitialized memory when decompressing a corrupt file. * lziprecover.cc: New options '-f, --force' and '-o, --output'. * lziprecover.cc: New option '-s, --split' to select the until now only operation of splitting multimember files. * lziprecover.cc: If no operation is specified, warn the user and do nothing. * main.cc: Fix warning about fchown's return value being ignored. * decoder.cc: '-tvvvv' now also shows compression ratio. * main.cc: Set stdin/stdout in binary mode on MSVC and OS2. * lzip.texinfo: New examples. * testsuite: Rename 'test1' to 'test.txt'. New tests. * Matchfinder types HC4 (4 bytes hash-chain) and HT4 (4 bytes hash-table) have been tested and found no better than the current BT4. 2010-04-05 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.10 released. * decoder.h: Input_buffer integrated in Range_decoder. * main.cc: File specified with option '-o' is now created with mode 0666 if umask allows it, deleted if interrupted by user. * main.cc: New constant 'o_binary'. * main.cc: Dictionary size for options -2, -3, -4 and -8 has been changed to improve linearity of compressed sizes. * lzip.h: Fix warnings produced by over-optimization (-O3). * Makefile.in: Add quotes to directory names. 2010-01-17 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.9 released. * main.cc (main): Return at least 1 if closing stdout fails. * Makefile.in: Add option '--name' to help2man invocation. * check.sh: Use 'test1' instead of 'COPYING' for testing. 2009-09-02 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.8 released. * Compression time has been reduced by 4%. * Lzdiff and lzgrep have been moved to the new package zutils. * Fix warnings on systems where uint32_t != unsigned int. 2009-06-25 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.7 released. * decoder.h (copy_block): Fix memcpy overlap introduced in 1.6. 2009-06-22 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.6 released. * Decompression time has been reduced by 17%. * Add decompression support for Sync Flush marker. * Add support for the extension '.tbz' to lzdiff and lzgrep. * Add man pages for lzdiff, lzgrep and lziprecover. * encoder.cc (Matchfinder): Reduce memory use to 9x if input file is smaller than dictionary size limit. * decoder.cc: Add extra flush calls to improve partial decompression of corrupt files. * '--test' no longer needs '/dev/null'. * Remove some 'bashisms' from lzdiff and lzgrep. * Dictionary size for options '-1' to '-4' has been changed. * main.cc (signal_handler): Declare as 'extern "C"'. * Makefile.in: Extra files are now installed by default. * check.sh: Test lziprecover. * Add 'export LC_ALL=C' to all scripts. 2009-04-12 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.5 released. * lzip.h: Implement coded dictionary size in Lzip_header. * Fix some includes that prevented compilation with GCC 4.4. * 'member_size' and 'volume_size' are now accurate limits. * Compression speed has been improved. * Implement bt4 type matchfinder. * lzip.texinfo: New chapter 'Algorithm'. * Lzdiff and lzgrep now accept '-h' for '--help' and '-V' for '--version'. * Makefile.in: Man page is now installed by default. * check.sh: Check that files are opened in binary mode. 2009-01-24 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.4 released. * Implement compression of version 1 files. * New options '-b, --member-size', '-S, --volume-size', and '-o, --output'. * main.cc: Read from non-regular files if '--stdout' is specified. * Add 'lziprecover', a member recoverer program. * unzcrash.cc: Test all 1-byte errors. 2008-12-21 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.3 released. * This version automatically chooses the smallest possible dictionary size for each file during compression, saving memory during decompression. * Implement decompression of version 1 files. * check.sh: Replace 'diff -q' with 'cmp'. 2008-12-10 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.2 released. * encoder.cc: A 1-byte read outside allocated memory has been fixed. * lzip.h: Dictionary size limit has been reduced to 512 MiB because setting it to 1 GiB causes overflow of a 32 bit integer. * Add 'lzdiff', a diff/cmp wrapper for gzip, bzip2, lzip and non-compressed files. * Add 'lzgrep', a grep wrapper for gzip, bzip2, lzip and non-compressed files. * 'make install-info' should now work on Debian and OS X. 2008-11-17 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.1 released. * Change short name of option '--dictionary-size' to '-s'. * Change short name of option '--match-length' to '-m'. * Change LONG_LONG_MAX to LLONG_MAX. 2008-10-14 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 1.0 released. * '-tvv' shows file version and dictionary size. 2008-09-30 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.5 released. * Decompression is now 1% faster. 2008-09-23 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.4 released. * Code cleanup for global variable 'verbosity'. * Regain the compression ratio of 0.2 with 5% faster speed. * lzip.h: Fix compilation on systems where size_t != unsigned int. 2008-09-15 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.3 released. * encoder.cc: Compression is now 15% faster, 1% worse. * main.cc (main): Make option '-t' override '-c'. * main.cc (decompress): Show 'done' instead of 'ok' when not testing. * encoder.h: Use trials[] to return the list of pairs. 2008-09-09 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.2 released. * encoder.cc: Small improvements in compression speed. * Small documentation changes. 2008-08-20 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.1 released. 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