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@@ -1,17 +1,46 @@ -Changes in version 1.19: +Changes in version 1.20: -'--merge' is now able to fix files with thousands of scattered errors -per member by grouping the errors into clusters and then merging the -files as if each cluster were a single error. +Splitting was broken for files larger than 64 KiB because of a bug +introduced in version 1.16. -The option '-a, --trailing-error' now works with '-l, --list' and -'-D, --range-decompress'. +The options "--dump-tdata", "--remove-tdata", and "--strip-tdata" have +been added to ease the management of metadata stored as trailing data: -The output of option '-l, --list' has been simplified to make it easier -to read. + "--dump-tdata" dumps the trailing data (if any) of one or more regular + files to standard output. -In test mode, lziprecover now continues checking the rest of the files -if any input file is a terminal. + "--remove-tdata" removes the trailing data from regular files in place. -Trailing data are now shown both in hexadecimal and as a string of -printable ASCII characters. + "--strip-tdata" copies one or more regular files to standard output, + stripping the trailing data (if any) from each file. + +The option '--loose-trailing', has been added. + +The test used by lziprecover to discriminate trailing data from a corrupt +header in multimember or concatenated files has been improved to a +Hamming distance (HD) of 3, and the 3 bit flips must happen in different +magic bytes for the test to fail. As a consequence some kinds of files +no longer can be appended to a lzip file as trailing data unless the +'--loose-trailing' option is used when decompressing. +Lziprecover can be used to remove conflicting trailing data from a file. + +The contents of a corrupt or truncated header found in a multimember +file is now shown, after the error message, in the same format as +trailing data. + +The 'bits/byte' ratio has been replaced with the inverse compression +ratio in the output. + +The progress of decompression is now shown at verbosity level 2 (-vv) or +higher. + +Progress of decompression is only shown if stderr is a terminal. + +A final diagnostic is now shown at verbosity level 1 (-v) or higher if +any file fails the test when testing multiple files. + +In case of (de)compressed size mismatch, the stored size is now also +shown in hexadecimal to ease visual comparison. + +The dictionary size is now shown at verbosity level 4 (-vvvv) when +decompressing or testing. |