v0.5.3

• This version contains bugfixes and relaxes error-handling encountering "nothing to protect" (no files matched).
• This version introduces packages for common distributions and an optional method to build with par2 embedded.
• This version adds handling for SIGPIPE (which is now treated as a regular interrupt) for better scripting experience.

Distribution	Package
Debian / Ubuntu	.deb
Fedora / RHEL	.rpm
Arch Linux	.pkg.tar.zst
Generic Linux (Binaries)	.tar.gz

See Installing from packages for installation guidance.

Changelog

New features

• 5d0ad6a: feat(main): add build tag for embed_par2 (@desertwitch)

Bug fixes

• d317500: fix(bundler): return json encode error (@desertwitch)
• 93df13f: fix(create): do not error on nothing to protect (@desertwitch)
• 39194e1: fix(create): do not ignore existence check errors (@desertwitch)
• 00d4a71: fix(create): refactor par2AlreadyExists (@desertwitch)
• 729718f: fix(create): remove subjob sentinel (@desertwitch)
• 7f6b5b7: fix(create): revise error handling (@desertwitch)
• 153616c: fix(main): add --log-level to bundle info (@desertwitch)
• 83c1710: fix(main): handle SIGPIPE as interrupt (@desertwitch)
• f425d7a: fix(main): send bundle info errors to stderr (@desertwitch)
• 79fff79: fix(tool): respect context cancel (@desertwitch)
• 54b9f4c: fix(util): revise only-contains error detection (@desertwitch)
• 05e110b: fix: patch some flaky tests (@desertwitch)

Other work

• c1e9bd5: chore(create): improve marker error handling (@desertwitch)
• 0713f54: chore(create): refactor par2AlreadyExists (@desertwitch)
• 0322035: chore(create): revert par2AlreadyExists refactor (@desertwitch)
• 8f09510: chore(create): reword error message (@desertwitch)
• c5f9a6f: chore(create): reword error messages (@desertwitch)
• 84d76fb: chore(create): test struct order (@desertwitch)
• 45d013e: chore(docs): add build-embedded script (@desertwitch)
• d83e48d: chore(docs): add compile info (@desertwitch)
• 8a6dd91: chore(docs): add embedded build info (@desertwitch)
• 575bfa5: chore(docs): bolden link (@desertwitch)
• 4fbc13e: chore(docs): change punch-line (@desertwitch)
• 3da0589: chore(docs): hidden globbing (@desertwitch)
• cb65f9a: chore(docs): reword installation (@desertwitch)
• 7167312: chore(main): restructure embed location (@desertwitch)
• 53675c7: chore(scripts): add build-embedded helper (@desertwitch)
• 97f31a8: chore(scripts): add patches to build-embedded (@desertwitch)
• fa03cd5: chore(tool): adapt to use service (@desertwitch)
• acb4f21: chore(tool): reword error message (@desertwitch)
• e5826e3: chore(tool): show error count (@desertwitch)
• 6fba92d: chore(verify): make consistent zero returns (@desertwitch)
• bff69f8: chore: consistent error returning (@desertwitch)

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Most users will want the linux_amd64 packages (see installation instructions in documentation).