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diff --git a/zip30f.ann b/zip30f.ann new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79285e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/zip30f.ann @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Zip 3.0f + +We have posted Zip Beta 3.0f, September 24th 2007. This is a beta +release, but is more or less complete. See the file WhatsNew for +a list of major features implemented and what's left. + +The archive reading and writing code in this beta has been redone to +support split archives. We've extensively tested the code over the +last year, but you should thoroughly test it yourself before relying +on it. Also note that Unicode support is preliminary and may change +before release, but currently there seems agreement between Info-ZIP +and others on how to handle storing UTF-8 paths and that approach is +implemented in Zip 3.0. + +Please test this beta and let us know if we're ready to officially +release Zip 3.0. + +New things in Zip 3.0f +- Split archives - Zip now can create and indirectly update split + archives +- Unicode support - Zip now stores Unicode paths that should be more + portable across character sets and languages and Zip now can + read Windows file names in most all character sets using Unicode, + but this support is preliminary and may change by release +- bzip2 - bzip2 compression is now supported +- Console writing - Messages to the console are more consistently + formatted +- Streaming - Directories are now handled better when streaming +- Date range - Can now use -t and -tt to set a date range +- UnZip Check - Check if UnZip 6.00 or later is available for + testing a Zip64 archive +- License - minor updates to the license +- Difference mode - A new option -DF (--dif) creates an output archive that + includes only files changed or added since the input archive was created, + and might be useful for incremental backups +- File Sync - New option -FS synchronizes the entries in an archive with the + files on the file system, adding, updating, and deleting entries as needed, + creating an updated archive that should be the same as a new archive, but + since existing entries are copied and not recompressed it can be faster +- Fix options - Options -F and -FF now fix split archives +- Copy Mode - This new mode allows selecting archive entries to copy + to a new archive +- Case matching - On Windows and VMS, option -ic (ignore case) turns off + case-sensitive matching of command line input patterns when matching + entries in an archive +- Windows OEM - With this compile option, file names are saved on + Windows in the local OEM character set, as some other zips do +- Windows Archive Bit support - On Windows can now select files + using the Windows archive bit +- Global dots - Can now set quiet mode, but output progress dots every + so many bytes read, settable from KB to TB, allowing progress to be + displayed for large archives without the screen scrolling +- Empty archives - Options -i or -i@ can now output empty archives, + which is useful in some scripts +- Keep extra fields option - Option -X- allows passing through extra + fields that Zip does not process +- Large file encryption bug fixed - Fix for bug that very rarely + results in bad data being stored when deflating and encrypting + uncompressable large amounts of data and resulting in CRC errors +- Show Files option - Can list the files that would be operated on +- Delete date bug fixed - Bug when using -d with -t or -tt is fixed |