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diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/lzma/container.h b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/container.h
index 0fbe9778..6a2f4d78 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/api/lzma/container.h
+++ b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/container.h
@@ -602,8 +602,8 @@ extern LZMA_API(lzma_ret) lzma_microlzma_encoder(
/**
* This flag enables decoding of concatenated files with file formats that
* allow concatenating compressed files as is. From the formats currently
- * supported by liblzma, only the .xz format allows concatenated files.
- * Concatenated files are not allowed with the legacy .lzma format.
+ * supported by liblzma, only the .xz and .lz formats allow concatenated
+ * files. Concatenated files are not allowed with the legacy .lzma format.
*
* This flag also affects the usage of the `action' argument for lzma_code().
* When LZMA_CONCATENATED is used, lzma_code() won't return LZMA_STREAM_END
@@ -758,6 +758,64 @@ extern LZMA_API(lzma_ret) lzma_alone_decoder(
/**
+ * \brief Initialize .lz (lzip) decoder (a foreign file format)
+ *
+ * \param strm Pointer to properly prepared lzma_stream
+ * \param memlimit Memory usage limit as bytes. Use UINT64_MAX
+ * to effectively disable the limiter.
+ * \param flags Bitwise-or of flags, or zero for no flags.
+ * All decoder flags listed above are supported
+ * although only LZMA_CONCATENATED and (in very rare
+ * cases) LZMA_IGNORE_CHECK are actually useful.
+ * LZMA_TELL_NO_CHECK, LZMA_TELL_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK,
+ * and LZMA_FAIL_FAST do nothing. LZMA_TELL_ANY_CHECK
+ * is supported for consistency only as CRC32 is
+ * always used in the .lz format.
+ *
+ * This decoder supports the .lz format version 0 and the unextended .lz
+ * format version 1:
+ *
+ * - Files in the format version 0 were produced by lzip 1.3 and older.
+ * Such files aren't common but may be found from file archives
+ * as a few source packages were released in this format. People
+ * might have old personal files in this format too. Decompression
+ * support for the format version 0 was removed in lzip 1.18.
+ *
+ * - lzip 1.3 added decompression support for .lz format version 1 files.
+ * Compression support was added in lzip 1.4. In lzip 1.6 the .lz format
+ * version 1 was extended to support the Sync Flush marker. This extension
+ * is not supported by liblzma. lzma_code() will return LZMA_DATA_ERROR
+ * at the location of the Sync Flush marker. In practice files with
+ * the Sync Flush marker are very rare and thus liblzma can decompress
+ * almost all .lz files.
+ *
+ * Just like with lzma_stream_decoder() for .xz files, LZMA_CONCATENATED
+ * should be used when decompressing normal standalone .lz files.
+ *
+ * The .lz format allows putting non-.lz data at the end of a file after at
+ * least one valid .lz member. That is, one can append custom data at the end
+ * of a .lz file and the decoder is required to ignore it. In liblzma this
+ * is relevant only when LZMA_CONCATENATED is used. In that case lzma_code()
+ * will return LZMA_STREAM_END and leave lzma_stream.next_in pointing to
+ * the first byte of the non-.lz data. An exception to this is if the first
+ * 1-3 bytes of the non-.lz data are identical to the .lz magic bytes
+ * (0x4C, 0x5A, 0x49, 0x50; "LZIP" in US-ASCII). In such a case the 1-3 bytes
+ * will have been ignored by lzma_code(). If one wishes to locate the non-.lz
+ * data reliably, one must ensure that the first byte isn't 0x4C. Actually
+ * one should ensure that none of the first four bytes of trailing data are
+ * equal to the magic bytes because lzip >= 1.20 requires it by default.
+ *
+ * \return - LZMA_OK: Initialization was successful.
+ * - LZMA_MEM_ERROR: Cannot allocate memory.
+ * - LZMA_OPTIONS_ERROR: Unsupported flags
+ * - LZMA_PROG_ERROR
+ */
+extern LZMA_API(lzma_ret) lzma_lzip_decoder(
+ lzma_stream *strm, uint64_t memlimit, uint32_t flags)
+ lzma_nothrow lzma_attr_warn_unused_result;
+
+
+/**
* \brief Single-call .xz Stream decoder
*
* \param memlimit Pointer to how much memory the decoder is allowed