LZ5 and Lizard

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File Format
Name LZ5 and Lizard
Ontology
Extension(s) .liz, .lz5
Released 2015

LZ5/Lizard is a compressed data format, and compressed file format.

The original name was LZ5. There were two major versions of LZ5: 1.x and 2.x. In 2017, LZ5 2.x was renamed to Lizard 1.x. (Or something like that. More research may be needed here.)

LZ5/Lizard was apparently developed by Przemyslaw Skibinski, based on LZ4 source code by Yann Collet.

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This "LZ5" is not related to the compression scheme identifiers used by LArc and PUT.

Identification

LZ5 1.x compressed files start with bytes 05 22 4D 18.

LZ5 2.x and Lizard 1.x compressed files start with 06 22 4D 18.

Compare to LZ4#Identification.

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