What’s new in the Aspose.ZIP for Java 24.7

Release Highlights

Aspose.ZIP for Java 24.7 continues to broaden archive format compatibility with the addition of support for ISO (ISO 9660), Z (compress), Shar, FastLZ, and WavPack formats. This update enables developers to read, write, and extract data from a wider range of compressed and disk image formats with added stream-based compression enhancements and new metadata access methods.

New Features

• ISO Format Support

  • Introduced IsoArchive and IsoEntry classes for reading ISO 9660 image files.

• Z Format (compress) Support

  • Added ZArchive and methods for saving Z-compressed TAR and CPIO archives.

• Shar Archive Support

  • Added SharArchive and SharEntry classes for Unix shar-format compatibility.

• FastLZ Compression Support

  • Introduced FastLZOutputStream to enable compression using FastLZ algorithm.

• WavPack Algorithm Support

  • Internal support added for WavPack algorithm as part of archive processing stack.

Enhancements

• Added .getLength() and .getName() methods for:

  • Bzip2Archive, GzipArchive, LzipArchive, LzmaArchive

• Added support for header encryption configuration in 7z:

  • SevenZipEncryptionSettings.getEncryptHeader() / .setEncryptHeader(boolean)

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

• New Classes

  • IsoArchive, IsoEntry
  • SharArchive, SharEntry
  • ZArchive, FastLZOutputStream

• New Methods

  • Archive metadata access:
    • .getLength(), .getName() for multiple archive types
  • Z-compression saving support:
    • TarArchive.saveZCompressed(...)
    • CpioArchive.saveZCompressed(...)
    • TarArchive.fromZ(...)
  • 7z encryption setting:
    • SevenZipEncryptionSettings.getEncryptHeader() / .setEncryptHeader(boolean)

• Deleted Methods

  • .dispose() methods deprecated and replaced by close() across all archive classes:
    • e.g., Archive.dispose() → close()

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For full list of updates, please visit Aspose.ZIP for Java 24.7 Release Notes.

iso | z format | shar | fastlz | wavpack