Apache Compress Antlib 1.2

Apache Compress Antlib is a cross-platform library which provides developers with compression and decompression capabilities for their software.

Apache Compress Antlib suports pack200, gzip, xz, bzip2, ar, cpio, tar, Unix dump and zip archives.

Apache Compress Antlib is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Requirements:

· Java 5 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Changes that Could Break Older Environments:
· The Apache Compress Antlib now requires Apache Commons Compress 1.4 and the public domain XZ for Java library if you want to use the XZ format. Commons Compress 1.4 is also required for the GNU, STAR and PAX formats of the tar task.
· The tar and untar tasks as well as the tar related resources now allow the encoding for file names to be specified. The default is the platform's native encoding, it used to be ISO-8859-1 in Commons Compress 1.3 and thus the Compress Antlib 1.1.

Other Changes:
· The Apache Compress Antlib now requires Apache Commons Compress 1.4 and the public domain XZ for Java library if you want to use the XZ format. Commons Compress 1.4 is also required for the GNU, STAR and PAX formats of the tar task.
· Support for xz compression has been added.
· The gunzip and bunzip2 tasks as well as the corresponding resources now support uncompressing resources that contain multiple concatenated streams as a single stream. This behavior h...