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Gary D. Gregory resolved COMPRESS-611.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
> commons-compress 1.21 became incompatible below Android 8.0
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> Key: COMPRESS-611
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-611
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.21
> Reporter: Hai Zhang
> Priority: Major
>
> The change
> https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/commit/06e05dab3bcb9044cc599f0ff18be78c54a8fbae
> added a static LinkOption[] field into IOUtils, and also made use of
> LinkOption in tar code.
> However, LinkOption is a Java 8 class that's only available on Adnroid 8.0
> and beyond (added in API 26 according to
> https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/LinkOption ). And with
> the static field in IOUtils, which will result in loading the LinkOption
> class during IOUtils class initialization, this suddenly made all classes
> referencing IOUtils require Android 8.0.
> In comparision, most of the functionalities in commons-compress 1.20 was
> working fine on Android 5.0+.
> I discovered this because a real user wrote to me about this issue, and
> generally speaking a lot of users in developing countries may still be using
> older devices, so it seems to me supporting Android 5.0+ may still be a good
> thing. Meanwhile according to
> https://www.androidpolice.com/googles-latest-android-version-distribution-numbers-show-11-in-dead-heat-with-10/
> , raising supported Android platform version from 5.0 to 8.0 will result in
> the percentage of supported device to drop from 98% to 82.7%, a >10% decrease.
> So could you kindly consider supporting Android 5.0 again by making the usage
> of Java 8 NIO file APIs optional?
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