Release 1.4.0 - icsharpcode/SharpZipLib GitHub Wiki

New minor release focusing on async and supporting newer frameworks.

Note that this version drops support for the EOL .NET 4.5 Framework, but adding explicit support for .NET 6.

Features:

• ✨ [#672] gzip add GzipOutputStream async support by nils måsén

• ✨ [#746] tar support for async streams by Nathan

• ✨ [#689] zip make it possible to skip header tests by nils måsén

• ✨ [#683] zip enable ZipOuputStream to write precompressed files by Temtaime

• ✨ [#592] zip better string encoding handling by nils måsén

• ✨ [#574] zip ZipOutputStream async support by nils måsén

Fixes:

• 🐛 [#642] zip handle iterating updated entries in ZipInputStream by nils måsén

• 🐛 [#582] tar enable unix paths in tar RootPath by sensslen

• 🐛 [#766] replace uses of obsolete method RNGCryptoServiceProvider by Yihezkel Schoenbrun

• 🐛 [#675] tar read full extended headers by nils måsén

• 🐛 [#765] zip explicitly specify hash method for Rfc2898DeriveBytes by Yihezkel Schoenbrun

• 🐛 [#754] zip skip reading position for non-seekable async streams by nils måsén

• 🐛 [#750] zip 0 in zip64 local sizes using descriptors by nils måsén

• 🐛 [#736] zip dont fail test on 0 sizes and descriptor by nils måsén

• 🐛 [#720] samples bump lib versions to v1.3.3 by nils måsén

• 🐛 [#669] zip use ushort for ITaggedData.TagID by Richard Webb

• 🐛 [#666] tar permit slashed output dir by nils måsén

Other changes (not related to library code):

• ⚙️ [#727] use server 2019 for win builds by nils måsén

• 🔧 [#670] remove the test bootstrapper by Richard Webb

• 🚨 [#671] repeatability and refactoring by nils måsén

• 📚 [#668] zip fix slash names in CleanName comment by ueli-werner

• 🔧 [#665] add release notes tooling by nils måsén