              Apache Commons Compress 1.3 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.

Commons Compress 1.3 is the first version to require Java5 at runtime.

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/

Have fun!
-Commons Compress team