create release notes for 1.16
Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with
compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, pack200,
-lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE, LZ4, Brotli and ar, cpio,
-jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.
+lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE, DEFLATE64, LZ4,
+Brotli, Zstandard and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.
+
+Release 1.16
+------------
+
+New features:
+o Add read-only support for Zstandard compression based on the
+ Zstd-jni project.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-423. Thanks to Andre F de Miranda.
+o Added auto-detection for Zstandard compressed streams.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-425.
+o Added write-support for Zstandard compression.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-426.
+o Added read-only DEFLATE64 support to ZIP archives and as
+ stand-alone CompressorInputStream.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-380. Thanks to Christian Marquez Grabia.
+o Added read-only DEFLATE64 support to 7z archives.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-437.
+
+Fixed Bugs:
+o Synchronized iteration over a synchronizedList in
+ ParallelScatterZipCreator.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-430. Thanks to Bruno P. Kinoshita.
+o ZipFile could get stuck in an infinite loop when parsing ZIP
+ archives with certain strong encryption headers.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-432.
+o Added improved checks to detect corrupted bzip2 streams and
+ throw the expected IOException rather than obscure
+ RuntimeExceptions.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-424.
+
+Changes:
+o Replaces instanceof checks with a type marker in LZ77 support code.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-435. Thanks to BELUGA BEHR.
+o Updated XZ for Java dependency to 1.8 in order to pick up bug fix
+ to LZMA2InputStream's available method.
+o ZipArchiveEntry now exposes how the name or comment have been
+ determined when the entry was read.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-429. Thanks to Damiano Albani.
+o ZipFile.getInputStream will now always buffer the stream
+ internally in order to improve read performance.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-438.
+o Speed improvement for DEFLATE64 decompression.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-440. Thanks to Dawid Weiss.
+o Added a few extra sanity checks for the rarer compression
+ methods used in ZIP archives.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-436.
+o Simplified the special handling for the dummy byte required by
+ zlib when using java.util.zip.Inflater.
+ Issue: COMPRESS-441.
+o Various code cleanups.
+ Github Pull Request #61. Thanks to Shahab Kondri.
+o TarArchiveEntry's preserveLeadingSlashes constructor argument
+ has been renamed and can now also be used to preserve the
+ drive letter on Windows.
Release 1.15
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