I am pleased to announce the release of tarlz 0.29.
Tarlz is a massively parallel (multithreaded) combined implementation of the
tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz uses the compression library lzlib.
Tarlz creates tar archives using a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX
pax format compressed in lzip format, keeping the alignment between tar
members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is
backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it
like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such
compressed archives. Tarlz protects the extended records with a CRC in a way
compatible with standard tar tools.
Keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members has two
advantages. It adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar archive, making
it possible to decode the archive safely in parallel. It also reduces the
amount of data lost in case of corruption.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html
The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lzip/tarlz/
The sha256sum is:
7e127f1e1b1b62ca6e3417fde32f3ae0481ba5886f56a8553a215b19d81c6c19
tarlz-0.29.tar.lz
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't
have the required public key, then run one of these commands to import it:
gpg --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742
wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu-keyring.gpg
Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739 FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742
Changes in version 0.29:
* A bug has been fixed that prevented the detection of
'--mtime=1969-12-31T23:59:59' as an invalid date on some systems.
(Thanks to Michael Shigorin).
* The new option '--numeric-owner', which tells tarlz to not write owner
or group names to the archive, has been added.
* The extended keyword 'ctime' is now recognized.
* Large numbers in option arguments are now accepted with underscore
separators (--mtime=@123_456_789).
* '-f' now rejects archive names with control characters.
* 'make check' now skips the symbolic link archiving test on Cygwin.
(Reported by Sonia Diaz).
* A table of SI and binary prefixes has been added to the manual.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, tarlz author and maintainer.
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lziprecover_manual.html#Fec-files
