What's new in Lziprecover 1.18
May 23, 2016
- main.cc: Added new option '-a, --trailing-error'.
- merge.cc (open_input_files): Use CRC to test identical files.
- repair.cc (repair_file): Detect gross damage before repairing.
- repair.cc: Repair a damaged dictionary size in the header.
- repair.cc: Try bytes at offsets 7 to 11 first.
- Decompression time has been reduced by 2%.
- main.cc (decompress): Print up to 6 bytes of trailing data when '-tvvvv' is specified.
- decoder.cc (verify_trailer): Removed 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.
- Use 'close_and_set_permissions' and 'set_signals' in all modes.
- range_dec.cc (list_file): Show dictionary size and size of trailing data (if any) with '-lv'.
- Added new option '-A, --alone-to-lz'.
- Added new option '-W, --debug-decompress'.
- Added new option '-X, --show-packets'.
- Changed short name of option '--debug-delay' to '-Y'.
- Changed short name of option '--debug-repair' to '-Z'.
- unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-B, --block'.
- unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-d, --delta'.
- unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-t, --truncate'.
- unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-z, --zcmp'.
- unzcrash.cc: Read files as large as RAM allows.
- unzcrash.cc: Compare output using zcmp if decompressor returns 0.
- unzcrash.cc: Accept negative position and size.
- lzip.texi: Added chapter 'Trailing data'.
- configure: Avoid warning on some shells when testing for g++.
- Makefile.in: Detect the existence of install-info.
- testsuite/check.sh: Don't check error messages.
- testsuite/check.sh: A POSIX shell is required to run the tests.
New in Lziprecover 1.17 (May 7, 2016)
- New block selection algorithm makes merge up to 100 times faster.
- repair.cc: Repair time has been reduced by 15%.
- Added new option '-y, --debug-delay'.
- Added new option '-z, --debug-repair'.
- Makefile.in: Added new targets 'install*-compress'.
- testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Moved to top directory.
- lziprecover.texi: Added chapter 'File names'.
New in Lziprecover 1.18 RC 1 (May 7, 2016)
- merge.cc (open_input_files): Use CRC to test identical files.
- repair.cc: Repair a damaged dictionary size in the header.
- main.cc (main): Delete '--output' file if infd is a terminal.
- Use 'close_and_set_permissions' and 'set_signals' in all modes.
- Added new option '-A, --alone-to-lz'.
- Added new option '-W, --debug-decompress'.
- Changed short name of option '--debug-delay' to '-Y'.
- Changed short name of option '--debug-repair' to '-Z'.
- unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-B, --block'.
- configure: Avoid warning on some shells when testing for g++.
- Makefile.in: Detect the existence of install-info.
- testsuite/check.sh: A POSIX shell is required to run the tests.
New in Lziprecover 1.17 RC 2 (Apr 18, 2015)
New in Lziprecover 1.17 RC 1 (Jan 22, 2015)
- repair.cc: Repair time has been reduced by 15%.
- Added new option '-y, --debug-delay'.
- Added new option '-z, --debug-repair'.
New in Lziprecover 1.16 (Jan 22, 2015)
- New class LZ_mtester makes repair much faster.
- main.cc (close_and_set_permissions): Behave like 'cp -p'.
- lziprecover.texinfo: Renamed to lziprecover.texi.
- License changed to GPL version 2 or later.
New in Lziprecover 1.16 RC 1 (Jul 7, 2014)
- License changed to GPL version 2 or later.
New in Lziprecover 1.16 Pre 2 (May 29, 2014)
- New class LZ_mtester makes repair much faster.
New in Lziprecover 1.16 Pre 1 (Apr 7, 2014)
- main.cc (close_and_set_permissions): Behave like 'cp -p'.
- Minor improvements.
- lziprecover.texinfo: Renamed to lziprecover.texi.
New in Lziprecover 1.15 (Sep 20, 2013)
- repair.cc: Repair multi-member files with up to one byte error per member.
- merge.cc: Merge multi-member files.
- Added chapters 'Repairing files', 'Merging files' and 'Unzcrash' to the manual.
New in Lziprecover 1.15 RC 1 (Aug 5, 2013)
- Minor changes.
- Added chapter 'Unzcrash' to the manual.
New in Lziprecover 1.15 Pre 1 (Jul 1, 2013)
- repair.cc: Repair multi-member files with up to one byte error per member.
- merge.cc: Merge multi-member files.
- Added chapters 'Repairing Files' and 'Merging Files' to the manual.
New in Lziprecover 1.14 (Jul 1, 2013)
- Added new option '-i, --ignore-errors'.
- Option '-l, --list' now accepts more than one file.
- Decompression time has been reduced by 12%.
- split.cc: Use as few digits as possible in file names.
- split.cc: In verbose mode show names of files being created.
- main.cc (show_header): Show header version if verbosity >= 4.
- configure: Options now accept a separate argument.
- Makefile.in: Added new target 'install-as-lzip'.
- Makefile.in: Added new target 'install-bin'.
- main.cc: Use 'setmode' instead of '_setmode' on Windows and OS/2.
New in Lziprecover 1.13 (Jul 1, 2013)
- Lziprecover is now distributed in its own package. Until version 1.12 it was included in the lzip package. Previous entries in this file are taken from there.
- lziprecover.cc: Renamed to main.cc.
- New files merge.cc, repair.cc, split.cc, and range_dec.cc.
- main.cc: Added decompressor options (-c, -d, -k, -t) so that a external decompressor is not needed for recovery nor for "make check".
- Added new option '-D, --range-decompress' which extracts a range of bytes decompressing only the members containing the desired data.
- Added new option '-l, --list' which prints correct total file sizes and ratios even for multi-member files.
- merge.cc repair.cc: Remove output file if recovery fails.
- Changed quote characters in messages as advised by GNU Standards.
- split.cc: Use Boyer-Moore algorithm to search for headers.
- configure: 'datadir' renamed to 'datarootdir'.
New in Lziprecover 1.12 (Jul 1, 2013)
- lziprecover.cc: If '-v' is not specified show errors only.
- testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Use Arg_parser.
- testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-b, --bits'.
- testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-p, --position'.
- testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-s, --size'.