Thanks for all the work. I'm excited to finally incorporate the changes into some of my professional work.
I just took a peek at the website and there is an advertisement for ApacheCon NA 2013. Perhaps its time to drop the mention? :) Thanks. On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache > Commons Compress 1.6. > > The Apache Commons Compress Library defines a Java API for working with > ar, cpio, tar, zip, 7z, arj, dump, gzip, pack200, bzip2, lzma and xz > files. > > The headline features of 1.6 are support for 7z archives as well as > read-only support for stand-alone LZMA compressed files and uncompressed > arj archives. > > Source and binary distributions are available for download from the > Apache Commons download site: > > http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/download_compress.cgi > > When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available > at the above location when downloading the release. > > Version 1.6 introduces changes to the internal API of the tar package > that break backwards compatibility in the following rare cases. This > version removes the package private TarBuffer class along with the > protected "buffer" members in TarArchiveInputStream and > TarArchiveOutputStream. This change will only affect you if you have > created a subclass of one of the stream classes and accessed the buffer > member or directly used the TarBuffer class. > > Changes in this version include: > > New features: > o Added support for 7z archives. Most compression algorithms > can be read and written, LZMA and encryption are only > supported when reading. Issue: COMPRESS-54. Thanks to Damjan > Jovanovic. > o Added read-only support for ARJ archives that don't use > compression. Issue: COMPRESS-226. Thanks to Damjan Jovanovic. > o DumpArchiveInputStream now supports an encoding parameter that > can be used to specify the encoding of file names. > o The CPIO streams now support an encoding parameter that can be > used to specify the encoding of file names. > o Read-only support for LZMA standalone compression has been added. > Issue: COMPRESS-111. > > Fixed Bugs: > o TarBuffer.tryToConsumeSecondEOFRecord could throw a > NullPointerException Issue: COMPRESS-223. Thanks to Jeremy Gustie. > o Parsing of zip64 extra fields has become more lenient in order > to be able to read archives created by DotNetZip and maybe > other archivers as well. Issue: COMPRESS-228. > o TAR will now properly read the names of symbolic links with > long names that use the GNU variant to specify the long file > name. Issue: COMPRESS-229. Thanks to Christoph Gysin. > o ZipFile#getInputStream could return null if the archive > contained duplicate entries. > The class now also provides two new methods to obtain all > entries of a given name rather than just the first one. > Issue: COMPRESS-227. > o CpioArchiveInputStream failed to read archives created by > Redline RPM. Issue: COMPRESS-236. Thanks to Andrew Duffy. > o TarArchiveOutputStream now properly handles link names that > are too long to fit into a traditional TAR header. Issue: > COMPRESS-237. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg. > o The auto-detecting create*InputStream methods of Archive and > CompressorStreamFactory could fail to detect the format of > blocking input streams. Issue: COMPRESS-239. > > Changes: > o Readabilty patch to TarArchiveInputStream. Issue: > COMPRESS-232. Thanks to BELUGA BEHR. > o Performance improvements to TarArchiveInputStream, in > particular to the skip method. Issue: COMPRESS-234. Thanks to BELUGA > BEHR. > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlJryQ4ACgkQohFa4V9ri3L+MACg5ZvmlIKL5u8qkPv8fT/GbfAd > hBkAoIunupjkFf0+7QbOvj9vV3ix6L2Q > =6XT4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
