[ANNOUNCE] Apache Commons Compress 1.2 Released

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

The Apache Commons Compress team is pleased to announce the
commons-compress-1.2 release!

The Apache Commons Compress Library defines a Java API for working with
ar, cpio, tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 files.

Version 1.2 is a bug fix release and the last release expected to be
compatible with Java 1.4.

Source and binary distributions are available for download from the
Apache Commons download site:

http://commons.apache.org/compress/download_compress.cgi

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available
at the above location when downloading the release.

Changes in this version include:

New features:
o COMPRESS-123:  ZipArchiveEntry has a new method getRawName that provides the
        original bytes that made up the name.  This may allow user
        code to detect the encoding. 
o COMPRESS-122:  TarArchiveEntry provides access to the flags that determine
        whether it is an archived symbolic link, pipe or other
        "uncommon" file system object. 

Fixed Bugs:
o COMPRESS-129:  ZipArchiveInputStream could fail with a "Truncated ZIP" error
        message for entries between 2 GByte and 4 GByte in size. 
o COMPRESS-145:  TarArchiveInputStream now detects sparse entries using the
        oldgnu format and properly reports it cannot extract their
        contents. 
o COMPRESS-130:  The Javadoc for ZipArchiveInputStream#skip now matches the
        implementation, the code has been made more defensive. 
o COMPRESS-140:  ArArchiveInputStream fails if entries contain only blanks for
        userId or groupId. Thanks to Trejkaz. 
o COMPRESS-139:  ZipFile may leak resources on some JDKs. 
o COMPRESS-125:  BZip2CompressorInputStream throws IOException if
        underlying stream returns available() == 0.
        Removed the check. 
o COMPRESS-127:  Calling close() on inputStream returned by
        CompressorStreamFactory.createCompressorInputStream()
        does not close the underlying input stream. 
o COMPRESS-119:  TarArchiveOutputStream#finish now writes all buffered
        data to the stream 

Changes:
o ZipFile now implements finalize which closes the underlying
        file. 
o COMPRESS-117:  Certain tar files not recognised by ArchiveStreamFactory. 

 
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

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