[ANNOUNCE] Apache Commons Compress 1.4 Released

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

The Apache Commons Compress team is pleased to announce the
commons-compress-1.4 release!

The Apache Commons Compress Library defines a Java API for working with
ar, cpio, tar, zip, dump, gzip, pack200, bzip2 and xz files.

Version 1.4 is adds support for the XZ compression format based on the
XZ for Java library of Tukaani Project[1].  The tar package now supports
a wider variety of dialects and can now properly read and create
archives with big entries or entries with long names.

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-156:  Support for the XZ format has been added. 

Fixed Bugs:
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 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:

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

Stefan Bodewig, on behalf of the Apache Commons community

[1] http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html