I just announced the availability of Apache Commons Compress version 1.1. This release is very impressive with much modifications and bugfixes. I had not to much time to work on it myself, but this only shows how good the community around Compress meanwhile is. Below is the announcement. And here are the release notes.
The Commons Compress team is pleased to announce the commons-compress-1.1 release!
Commons Compress defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip.
Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site:
When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.
For more information on Apache Commons Compress, visit the Commons Compress home page: