The Apache Commons Compress team is pleased to announce the commons-compress-1.3 release!
The Apache Commons Compress Library defines a Java API for working with ar, cpio, tar, zip, dump, gzip, pack200 and bzip2 files. Version 1.3 is adds support for Pack200, read-only support for the Unix dump format and transparent support for Zip64 extensions. It is the first version to require Java 5. Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site: http://commons.apache.org/compress/download_compress.cgi When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release. Changes in this version include: New features: o Support for the Pack200 format has been added. Issue: COMPRESS-142. o Read-only support for the format used by the Unix dump(8) tool has been added. Issue: COMPRESS-132. Fixed Bugs: o BZip2CompressorInputStream's getBytesRead method always returned 0. o ZipArchiveInputStream and ZipArchiveOutputStream could leak resources on some JDKs. Issue: COMPRESS-152. o TarArchiveOutputStream's getBytesWritten method didn't count correctly. Issue: COMPRESS-160. Changes: o The ZIP package now supports Zip64 extensions. Issue: COMPRESS-36. o The AR package now supports the BSD dialect of storing file names longer than 16 chars (both reading and writing). Issue: COMPRESS-144. For complete information on Commons Compress, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Commons Compress website: http://commons.apache.org/compress/ Stefan Bodewig, on behalf of the Apache Commons community --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
