| Apache Commons Compress 1.3 RELEASE NOTES |
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| Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with |
| compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, |
| pack200 and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump. |
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| Commons Compress 1.3 is the first version to require Java5 at runtime. |
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| Changes in this version include: |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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: |
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| http://commons.apache.org/compress/ |
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| Have fun! |
| -Commons Compress team |
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