lzop Changelog

What's new in lzop 1.03

Nov 9, 2010
  • Assorted minor updates.

New in lzop 1.02 RC1 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Made lzop compile with LZO v2.
  • Under Windows files are now opened using the _O_SEQUENTIAL flag, which results in a major speedup when (de)compressing large files.
  • File sizes > 2GB are correctly displayed.

New in lzop 1.01 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Five years have passed since the last release: completely updated the Autoconf build system, enable Autoconf large file support.
  • Warn about a compressed file's trailing zero bytes only if in
  • verbose mode (for compatibility with recent versions of GNU tar).
  • Don't be to strict in favoring stdin - using '--no-stdin' should not be necessary any longer in cron jobs.
  • Added option '-P' to save/restore the path name of a compressed file.
  • Added option '--crc32' to use a crc32 instead of a adler32 checksum.
  • Fixed an assertion that could trigger in very rare cases.

New in lzop 1.00 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Added command '--ls'
  • Added options '--no-mode', '--no-time', '--no-warn' and '--ignore-warn'

New in lzop 0.96 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Updated documentation
  • Added option '--no-stdin'

New in lzop 0.95 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Store a checksum by default (use option '-F' to disable)
  • Added support for filters
  • Adapted for LZO 1.02
  • Minor fixes and changes

New in lzop 0.94 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Added support for compressed archives (use with option '-o')

New in lzop 0.93 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Use in-place decompression to reduce memory requirements
  • Added support for environment variable 'LZOP'
  • Compile fixes for Solaris

New in lzop 0.92 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug in frames.c when passing an invalid pointer to free()

New in lzop 0.91 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Added option '-S'
  • Use GNU getopt for commandline parsing
  • Use dynamic memory allocation