Fedora 16 Update: xz-5.1.1-1alpha.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-14444
2011-10-16 17:08:52
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Name        : xz
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 5.1.1
Release     : 1alpha.fc16
URL         : http://tukaani.org/xz/
Summary     : LZMA compression utilities
Description :
XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on free (as in
freedom) operating systems. This is achieved by providing tools and libraries
which are similar to use than the equivalents of the most popular existing
compression algorithms.

LZMA is a general purpose compression algorithm designed by Igor Pavlov as
part of 7-Zip. It provides high compression ratio while keeping the
decompression speed fast.

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Update Information:

updates XZ to 5.1.1aplha. No soname changes. Many new features and bugfixes.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #736318 - update xz to 5.1
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736318
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xz' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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