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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:10:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: [compress] Releasing 1.4
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
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The trunk looks good now IMO. I'll let others decide about the change set
docs.

The only item that stick out but could wait for another release:
- the large code dup in BZip2CompressorInputStream as noted by CPD.
- the apparently unfinished JarArchiveEntry
- unused summary fields in DumpArchiveEntry

Gary

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Compress' trunk has been sitting on valuable content for too long now:
>
> * XZ compression
>
> * BZIP2 now reads streams created by pbzip2 (parallel bzip2)
>
> * TAR has been largely improved to support reading and writing big
>  files, old files and files with long names - as well as encodings
>  other than ASCII - in several ways supporting multiple dialects.
>
> There is one backwards incompatible change, tar now uses the platform's
> native encoding for file names (like GNU tar does) rather than
> ISO-8859-1.
>
> I intend to build a release candidate sometime during the next week
> unless anybody objects.  In order to incorporate feedback before I
> create the RC I've built the site for review at
> http://people.apache.org/~bodewig/commons-compress/
>
> Stefan
>
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