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LZ4 v1.8.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-09-11 // over 5 years ago

  • 🚀 This is maintenance release, mainly triggered by issue #560.
    #560 is a data corruption that can only occur in v1.8.2, at level 9 (only), for some "large enough" data blocks (> 64 KB), featuring a fairly specific data pattern, improbable enough that multiple cpu running various fuzzers non-stop during a period of several weeks where not able to find it. Big thanks to @Pashugan for finding and sharing a reproducible sample.

    ⚡️ Due to this fix, v1.8.3 is a recommended update.

    🚀 A few other minor features were already merged, and are therefore bundled in this release too.

    👍 Should lz4 prove too slow, it's now possible to invoke --fast=# command, by @jennifermliu . This is equivalent to the acceleration parameter in the API, in which user forfeit some compression ratio for the benefit of better speed.

    🛠 The verbose CLI has been fixed, and now displays the real amount of time spent compressing (instead of cpu time). It also shows a new indicator, cpu load %, so that users can determine if the limiting factor was cpu or I/O bandwidth.

    Finally, an existing function, LZ4_decompress_safe_partial(), has been enhanced to make it possible to decompress only the beginning of an LZ4 block, up to a specified number of bytes. Partial decoding can be useful to save CPU time and memory, when the objective is to extract a limited portion from a larger block.