Current 1.4 release notes
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- Apache Commons Compress 1.3 RELEASE NOTES
+ Apache Commons Compress 1.4 RELEASE NOTES
-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.
+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.
-Commons Compress 1.3 is the first version to require Java5 at runtime.
+Release 1.4
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.
+o COMPRESS-156: Support for the XZ format has been added.
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.
+o COMPRESS-183: The tar package now allows the encoding of file names to be
+ specified and can optionally use PAX extension headers to
+ write non-ASCII file names.
+ The stream classes now write (or expect to read) archives that
+ use the platform's native encoding for file names. Apache
+ Commons Compress 1.3 used to strip everything but the lower
+ eight bits of each character which effectively only worked for
+ ASCII and ISO-8859-1 file names.
+ This new default behavior is a breaking change.
+o COMPRESS-184: TarArchiveInputStream failed to parse PAX headers that
+ contained non-ASCII characters.
+o COMPRESS-178: TarArchiveInputStream throws IllegalArgumentException instead of IOException
+o COMPRESS-179: TarUtils.formatLongOctalOrBinaryBytes() assumes the field will be 12 bytes long
+o COMPRESS-175: GNU Tar sometimes uses binary encoding for UID and GID
+o COMPRESS-171: ArchiveStreamFactory.createArchiveInputStream would claim
+ short text files were TAR archives.
+o COMPRESS-164: ZipFile didn't work properly for archives using unicode extra
+ fields rather than UTF-8 filenames and the EFS-Flag.
+o COMPRESS-169: For corrupt archives ZipFile would throw a RuntimeException in
+ some cases and an IOException in others. It will now
+ consistently throw an IOException.
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.
+o COMPRESS-182: The tar package can now write archives that use star/GNU/BSD
+ extensions or use the POSIX/PAX variant to store numeric
+ values that don't fit into the traditional header fields.
+o COMPRESS-181: Added a workaround for a Bug some tar implementations that add
+ a NUL byte as first byte in numeric header fields.
+o COMPRESS-176: Added a workaround for a Bug in WinZIP which uses backslashes
+ as path separators in Unicode Extra Fields.
+o COMPRESS-131: ArrayOutOfBounds while decompressing bz2. Added test case - code already seems to have been fixed.
+o COMPRESS-146: BZip2CompressorInputStream now optionally supports reading of
+ concatenated .bz2 files.
+o COMPRESS-154: GZipCompressorInputStream now optionally supports reading of
+ concatenated .gz files.
+o COMPRESS-16: The tar package can now read archives that use star/GNU/BSD
+ extensions for files that are longer than 8 GByte as well as
+ archives that use the POSIX/PAX variant.
+o COMPRESS-165: The tar package can now write archives that use star/GNU/BSD
+ extensions for files that are longer than 8 GByte as well as
+ archives that use the POSIX/PAX variant.
+o COMPRESS-166: The tar package can now use the POSIX/PAX variant for writing
+ entries with names longer than 100 characters.
-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:
+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/
-
-Have fun!
--Commons Compress team
-