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+Zip 3.0
+
+We have posted Zip 3.0, July 5th 2008.  This is a major upgrade
+from Zip 2.32, the current Zip 2.x release.  A quick summary of
+features is below, but see the file WhatsNew for the detailed list
+of major features and upgrades as well as what's on the list for
+Zip 3.1.  Send in your feature suggestions and bug reports.
+
+Quick list of major changes in Zip 3.0:
+
+- Large files.  Support for files and archives greater than 2 GB using
+  large file I/O and the Zip64 extensions.  Also can now have more
+  than 64K entries in an archive.
+
+- Split archives.  Zip now supports split archives, zip archives
+  split into a set of files that can then be stored on removable media
+  for instance.
+
+- Unicode.  If Unicode support is enabled and supported on the system
+  Zip is run on, Zip now can read paths not in the current character
+  set and store those paths in portable UTF-8 format.  These Unicode
+  paths can then be used to partially or fully recreate the paths on
+  other systems depending on the character set support provided by
+  the unzip on the receiving system.  In particular, this allows
+  portability of paths between Windows and Unix.  Unicode comments
+  are also supported on systems where UTF-8 is the current character
+  set.  Unicode comment support for other systems is expected in
+  Zip 3.1.
+
+- New command line parser.  This new parser allows for command line
+  permuting, where options can appear almost anywhere on the command
+  line.  This allows adding options to the end of the command line,
+  for instance.  It also supports long options, allowing for
+  more readable command lines, and also allows lists for the -x
+  exclude and -i include options to appear not just at the end of
+  the command line.  And some bugs in command line processing in
+  Zip 2.32 have been fixed.
+
+- Unix 32-bit UIDs/GIDs.  Now UIDs/GIDs larger than 16 bits are
+  supported, but UnZip 6.0 is needed to restore these larger
+  UIDs/GIDs.  If Zip detects that the current system does not use
+  16-bit UIDs/GIDs, the old 16-bit UID/GID storage is not used
+  as putting 32-bit UIDs/GIDs into 16-bit fields can cause
+  problems.
+
+- New modes.  Additional archive modes have been added, including a
+  difference mode for supporting incremental backups, a file sync
+  mode for synchronizing an existing archive with the current file
+  system (which can be much faster than creating a new archive), and
+  a copy mode that allows copying entries from one archive to another.
+
+- Compression using bzip2.  Now can add bzip2 compression as a
+  compression option in Zip.  bzip2 compression can result in much
+  more compact entries in some cases, but the user should verify
+  that bzip2 is supported on the target unzip before using this new
+  compression choice.
+
+- New Windows dll.  The Windows dll has been updated to support the
+  new Zip64 large file and larger number of entries limits.  This
+  new dll is not backward compatible with the Zip 2.32 dll, as the
+  arguments to the dll have been updated to support the added
+  capabilities, but modifying existing programs to use the new dll
+  should be simple.  See the included Visual Basic example project
+  for details.
+
+- Better streaming and piping.  Zip now has better support of
+  streaming and piping and handles Unix FIFOs (named pipes) better.
+
+- Gobs of new progress information.  Zip can now output progress
+  information, such as how many entries processed and to go, how
+  many bytes processed and to go, and adjustable size progress
+  dots.  If the initial file scan takes longer than about 5
+  seconds, Zip now outputs dots during the scan to avoid a long
+  period of quiet.  Zip can also now generate log files.
+
+- Updated archive fixing.  The archive fixing capability is
+  slightly improved, and now can fix split archives.
+
+- Windows Archive bit support.  The Windows archive bit is now
+  supported, though the new difference mode is probably more
+  reliable than relying on the Windows archive bit for creating
+  incremental backups.
+
+- File lists.  Zip can list the files that would be added to an
+  archive as well as the files in an existing archive.
+
+- Extended help.  A new extended help option lists a very terse
+  summary of the major features of Zip and how to use them.
+
+- Many bug fixes.
+
+As always, see the Zip manual page for details on what Zip has and
+how to use all features.
+
+Enjoy!