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#ziplib 0.8 released

A new release of everyone's favorite zip compression library is out! (btw, it does GZip, BZip2 and Tar too!)  Thanks to John Reilly & Mike Krueger for providing this to the .NET community.  Download #ziplib 0.8 here.

The new goodies include:

  • Add functionality to support cleaning of names to Zip file convention added to ZipEntry class
  • External file and attributes are now handled
  • IsDirectory now handles the attributes for archives made on DOS/Windows
  • ZipFile class now has an indexer property
  • ZipFile class has new functionality for searching for entries by name
  • ZipFile class now reads external attributes from central header entries
  • Fixed bug in ZipInputStream class where extra bytes containing unix attributes altered date and time causing checking of password to fail
  • ZipInputStream class now checks version required to extract.
  • ZipOutputStream class version made by is now fixed at 2.0
  • Cleaned up summary comments all over the place.
  • Some changes to Tar classes to allow Compact Framework compilation.
  • Add checking for invalid entries when scanning through extra data.
  • Decryption of entries from Zip files created on non-seekable output now works.
  • Deflating of zero length files is automatically converted to stored if possible to save a little space.
  • More tests.
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