Plzip 0.9 / 1.0 RC 1 - Changelog

What's new in Plzip 1.0 RC 1:

March 13th, 2013

· compress.cc: 'deliver_packet' changed to 'deliver_packets'.
· Scalability of decompression from/to regular files has been increased by removing splitter and muxer when not needed.
· The number of worker threads is now limited to the number of members when decompressing from a regular file.
· Makefile.in: Added new target 'install-as-lzip'.
· Makefile.in: Added new target 'install-bin'.

What's new in Plzip 0.9:

February 8th, 2013

· Minor fixes and cleanups.
· configure: 'datadir' renamed to 'datarootdir'.

What's new in Plzip 0.8:

February 8th, 2013

· main.cc: Added new option '-F, --recompress'.
· decompress.cc (decompress): Show compression ratio.
· main.cc (close_and_set_permissions): Inability to change output file attributes has been downgraded from error to warning.
· Small change in '--help' output and man page.
· Changed quote characters in messages as advised by GNU Standards.
· main.cc: Set stdin/stdout in binary mode on OS2.
· compress.cc: Reduce memory use of compressed packets.
· decompress.cc: Use Boyer-Moore algorithm to search for headers.

What's new in Plzip 0.7:

February 8th, 2013

· Match length limits set by options -1 to -9 have been changed to match those of lzip 1.11.
· decompress.cc: A limit has been set on the number of packets produced by workers to limit the amount of memory used.
· main.cc (open_instream): Do not show the message " and '--stdout' was not specified" for directories, etc.
· main.cc: Fixed warning about fchown return value being ignored.
· testsuite: 'test1' renamed to 'test.txt'. Added new tests.

What's new in Plzip 0.6:

April 12th, 2010

· Small portability fixes.
· Added chapter "Program Design" and description of option "--threads" to manual.
· Debug stats have been fixed.