I'm happy to announce the release of gzip 1.3.11. gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by Jean-Loup Gailly for the GNU project; Mark Adler wrote the decompression part.
This gzip release modifies gzip to follow the GNU coding standards better, and fixes zdiff to check for subsidiary gzip failures. I'm making it available for testing now; if there are no serious problems I'd like to make it a stable release. Please report any problems to <bug-gzip@gnu.org>. The compressed sources are here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.11.tar.gz (432 kB) The GPG detached signature is here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.11.tar.gz.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA512 digests: a41a6a4b11f941cb7fc13df320f3af5f gzip-1.3.11.tar.gz a7e0924f6c41e5efc4dfede0a5b09d1118bef123d6afa1809c56a800f1629251adedd615101a28dd7f42280af81699492249e7395342575f9ab7de6207edc9dd gzip-1.3.11.tar.gz Here are URLs to the ChangeLog entries since the most recent version (1.3.10): http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/viewcvs/gzip/gzip/ChangeLog?r1=1.44&r2=1.52 Here are the major changes since 1.3.10, reported in the NEWS file: * As per the GNU coding standards, the behavior of gzip and its companion executables no longer depend on the name used to invoke them. For example, 'gzip' and 'gunzip' are no longer hard links; instead, 'gunzip' is now a small program that invokes 'gzip -d'. * zdiff now checks for subsidiary gzip failures, and works around bugs in IRIX 6 sh, Tru64 4.0F ksh, and Solaris 8 bash.
