NanoZip - www.nanozip.net ...6 november, 2011 - fixed an issue in the graphical user interface (nanozip.

exe) (thanks to egors23 for reporting it) 0.09 alpha, 4 november, 2011 - a new feature for running multiple compressors simultaneously for maximizing multi-threading utilization at the cost of compression ratio. the trade-off (auto by default) can be controlled with -p parameter - optimizations to nz_lzhd and lzpf compressors - fixed extremely rare false positive fletcher16 checksum error (thanks to sergey for reporting this) - fixed a rare bug in nz_lzpf and nz_lzpf_large (thanks to "flaker" for reporting it) - fixed a rare bug ("error 13", concerning modes -cd...-cc) (thanks again to sergey for reporting the bug) - fixed path conversion ('\') on linux (thanks to "onno" for reporting the bug) - fixed (yet another attempt) problems with large memory settings (thanks to patrick and others who reported these) - fixed "error 7834538" (thanks to pat357, dennis and others for reporting) please write feedback again if this error re-appears - changes to the command line options: removed the 'q' and 'unix' -commands and added a switch (-pause) to pause before quitting. sfx module is no longer integrated into the executable, but it is a separate file 0.08 alpha, 3 june, 2010 - nz_optimum1 & 2 text compression (bwt with dc and qlfc models) is replaced with the nanozipltcb parallel compressor. the speed should not be expected to equal nanozipltcb though - multithreading optimizations (dual thread) for nz_optimum1 & 2 binary compression. (proper parallelization may be implemented sometime later) - miscellanous compression optimizations for nz_optimum1 & 2 - optimizations for nz_lzhd. around 5-10% faster compression (try limiting the use of memory for extra speed) - multithreading optimizations for nz_lzhd and nz_lzhds compression (dual threads only 5-10%) - multithreading decompression for nz_lzhd and nz_lzhds. limited to about four threads with 20-40% speedup - new compressor: nz_lzhd_parallel (-cdp), a modified nz_lzhd compression algorithm for multi-core cpus. sometimes slower than nz_lzhd. compression ratio varies depending on the number of cores/processors available - new compressor: nz_lzhd_parallel_extra (-cdP), high compression variant of the parallel algorithm - small tunings for nz_lzhds - new compressor: nz_lzhds_parallel (-cDp), a modified nz_lzhds compression algorithm for multi-core cpus. sometimes faster than nz_lzhds. compression ratio depends on the number of cores/processors available - new compressor: nz_lzhds_parallel_extra (-cDP), high compression variant of the nz_lzhds_parallel algorithm - faster audio compression for nz_lzpf. the old audio compression is now used for lz_lzpf_large - faster (50%) audio compression and sometimes better ratio for nz_cm. some improvements for nz_opt1 & 2 also - t -switch sets number of threads (should be set to the number of idle cores in the system) (a critical setting for the parallel compressors) - br and bw -switches set read/write buffer sizes. this setting effects io-in/out time (default: auto, 1-32 MB for each) - fixed bug (at least for linux) when various nz compressors reporting

"out of memory" without a reason or failing otherwise with large memory settings (thanks to michael and many others who have pointed this out). windows versions remain untested fixed bug when opening archive failed in the gui (thanks to richard for reporting the bug) s -command simulates compression (compress without writing output) forcemem -switch is deprecated (a warning is displayed in case of low memory) l -command list output should be more readable now gui support cancelling compression and decompression jobs various other changes thanks to david bynane for the windows icon note: the compression ratio may vary even on multiple runs on the same hardware for the parallel compressors. these compressors are experimental and may not be very useful for platform with less than 4 cores. run with -t1 (or on a single core platform) will result slow speed and low compression ratio. decompressors are updated in such way that there is no distinction made for the parallel compressors, so the basic compressor name is listed for decompressing. these compressors have not been properly tested on windows and the multithreading implementation might be inefficient compared to the linux versions.

0.07 alpha, 4 july, 2009 - multithreading for nz_lzpf and lz_lzpf_large (for 2 processors) for both compression and decompression (nz_lzpf is 20-40% faster) with no changes to compression ratio - gui displays elapsed time, remaining time and speed - fixed a bug in nz_lzpf and lz_lzpf_large - fixed a bug which caused incompatibility between 64-bit and 32-bit versions - fixed a bug in the archiver core, which caused faulty archives with the store method (can also happen with compression enabled) thanks to mod_john for reporting the bug - miscellaneous performance related tunings 0.06 alpha, 13 february, 2009 - small compression related tunings for nz_optimum1-2 and nz_cm. artificial images still compress very badly, this will be fixed in the future - linux support (command line interface only) - 64-bit support for windows and linux (command line interface) - 32-bit self-extracting archives with command line interface - new command line switches: -sp (strip paths from files) and -fo (re/store unix file ownership) - fixed several bugs in the gui which may caused random unstability - fixed a bug which may have caused a crash during compression with nz_opt1-2 (thanks to michael dietzel for reporting and providing a sample) - fixed a bug in nz_cm. thanks to stephan busch for reporting it - miscellaneous small fixes 0.05 alpha, 20 october, 2008 - nz_optimum1 compressor is replaced with a new experimental branch. the compression performance is now dramatically different for non-textual data. typically the speed is 25-80% slower but the compression ratio is 5-15% better - improved audio compression for nz_optimum1, 10% faster compression and decompression (with a variation of <0.1% in compression ratio) - improved nz_lzpf_large compression (this compressor will likely be replaced with a better one in the future)

- fixed a bug which sometimes caused incorrect timestamps - fixed a bug which caused files size of zero not to be processed (thanks to nania francesco antonio for reporting the bug) - fixed adding non-existent files into archive. this no longer produces an empty archive - fixed a bug which caused memory to be automatically reduced too much for nz_optimum1 and nz_optimum2 - command line interface gives more details when listing archive contents - miscellanous fixes/tunings/optimizations 0.04 alpha, 19 august, 2008 - improved nz_optimum2 compression ratio for non-textual data. decompression is slightly slower - revised audio compression for nz_optimum1, nz_lzhd and nz_lzhds. nz_optimum1 is about 2x faster (slightly worse compression). nz_lzhd has higher compression ratio and nz_lzhds has both higher compression ratio and speed - other compressors might be slightly faster on audio as well - improved text compression performance for nz_lzhd and nz_lzhds - small tweaks for nz_cm - corrupted/artificial audio files might compress better - fixed a bug which sometimes caused decompression to use 2x memory - fixed a bug which caused false checksum errors (thanks to zonder for reporting the bug) - fixed a bug which caused a crash compressing files where dates were corrupted (thanks to jim for providing a sample) 0.03 alpha, 31 july, 2008 - fixed a bug (thanks again to pat357 for reporting it) 0.02 alpha, 30 july, 2008 - nz_optimum2 compression speed is about 5-10% faster and decompression speed 10-35% faster for non-textual data (compression ratio may vary +-0.5%) - worst case speed optimizations (up to 2x faster) for nz_optimum2, thanks to pat357 and christian schneider for providing data samples - as an experiment, nz_cm audio compression is now configured for slightly higher compression (for some files), it's 2x slower compressing - changed memory configurations for nz_optimum1, nz_optimum2 and nz_cm. nz_cm may compress large files with better, compression may also vary with the opt1 and opt2 compressors - memory usage will be automatically reduced if the defined amount cannot be utilized by the selected compressor (for the particular files) - fixed a bug which caused a crash (thanks to radek liska for providing a sample) - fixed a bug which caused a crash (thanks to christian schneider for providing a sample) - fixed a bug (thanks again to pat357 for providing a sample) 0.01 alpha, 14 july, 2008 - various compression related fixes and tweaks mainly concerning multifile compression with nz_optimum1, nz_optimum2, nz_cm - fixed a bug (thanks to pat357 for reporting it) - fixed 2 bugs which may have caused crashes - all compressors should now report memory usage accurately and custom memory settings should be approximately followed - default/standard memory usage is now set to 400-450 mb - memory usage will be automatically reduced if no such amount of memory is available - fixed large file support (technically nz format supports infinite file size) (thanks to zonder for reporting the bug)

- fixed '//' which appeared sometimes using the gui - help command option shows advanced options. some of these options may be a help for benchmarkers with non-configurable automated tools - gui will (by default) sort files by name - gui uses distinguishable color for nanozip archive files - many thanks for stephan busch for extensive testing 0.00 alpha, 5 july, 2008 - the first public version