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@@ -1,15 +1,25 @@ XZ Utils --------- - -Warning - - This is a beta version. Don't trust the files produced by - this version of the software - not even if the software can - uncompress the files properly! This is because the file format - isn't officially frozen yet although changes are very unlikely. - - So please test a lot, but don't use for anything serious yet. +======== + +Important + + This is a beta version. The .xz file format is now stable though, + which means that files created with the beta version will be + uncompressible with all future XZ Utils versions too (assuming + that there are no catastrophical bugs). + + liblzma API is pretty stable now, although minor tweaks may still + be done if really needed. The ABI is not stable yet. The major + soname will be bumped right before the first stable release. + Probably it will be bumped to something like .so.5.0.0 because + some distributions using the alpha versions already had to use + other versions than .so.0.0.0. + + Excluding the Doxygen style docs in libilzma API headers, the + documentation in this package (including the rest of this + README) is not very up to date, and may contain incorrect or + misleading information. Overview |