Changes in 1.2

Changes that Could Break Older Environments:

• The Apache Compress Antlib now requires Apache Commons Compress 1.4 and the public domain XZ for Java library if you want to use the XZ format. Commons Compress 1.4 is also required for the GNU, STAR and PAX formats of the tar task.
• The tar and untar tasks as well as the tar related resources now allow the encoding for file names to be specified. The default is the platform's native encoding, it used to be ISO-8859-1 in Commons Compress 1.3 and thus the Compress Antlib 1.1.

Fixed Bugs:

Other Changes:

• The Apache Compress Antlib now requires Apache Commons Compress 1.4 and the public domain XZ for Java library if you want to use the XZ format. Commons Compress 1.4 is also required for the GNU, STAR and PAX formats of the tar task.
• Support for xz compression has been added.
• The gunzip and bunzip2 tasks as well as the corresponding resources now support uncompressing resources that contain multiple concatenated streams as a single stream. This behavior has to be enabled explicitly via the decompressConcatenated attribute.
• The tar task now supports the POSIX 1003.1/PAX way of storing long file names used by most modern tar implementations.
• The tar resources and the untar task read entries bigger than 8 GByte transparently now, if you use Commons Compress 1.4.
• The tar task writes entries bigger than 8 GByte using POSIX 1003.1/PAX headers or the star extension if you set the format attribute to "star", "gnu" or "pax". See the tar task's documentation of details.
• The tar and untar tasks as well as the tar related resources now allow the encoding for file names to be specified. The default is the platform's native encoding, it used to be ISO-8859-1 in Commons Compress 1.3 and thus the Compress Antlib 1.1.