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Provides encoders and decoders for various archive and compression formats such as zip, tar, bzip2, gzip, and zlib.
Last release 22 days ago
13 Sep 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 9 days to 10 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 60 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
13 years old
100 releases · first in 2013
* Fix zip file attributes.
Support GNU tar long file names
Use dart:io ZLibCodec when run from dart:io.
One column per quarter.
Fix InputStream when a Uint8ListView is used as input data.
Use Utf8 for reading strings in archive archive files, for filenames and comments.
* Fixes for ZipFileEncoder.
Remove the use of part and part of in the main library.
part and part of in the main library.Moved version up for Dart 2 support.
Support the latest version of package:args.
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Fix issue with POSIX tar files.
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Improve performance decompressing large files in zip archives.
Disable CRC verification by default when decoding archives.
Add support for encoding uncompressed files in zip archives.
* Fix a bug in InputStream.
Add stream support to Inflate decompression.
Improved performance when writing large blocks.
* Misc updates and fixes.
*BREAKING CHANGE*: File was renamed to ArchiveFile, to avoid conflicts with dart:io.
Added BZip2 encoder.
BREAKING CHANGE: File was renamed to ArchiveFile, to avoid conflicts with
dart:io.
* Added BZip2 decoder.
Changed InputStream to work with typed_data instead of List , should reduce memory and increase performance.
InputStream to work with typed_data instead of List<int>, should
reduce memory and increase performance.Renamed InputBuffer and OutputBuffer to InputStream and OutputStream, respectively.
Renamed InputBuffer and OutputBuffer to InputStream and OutputStream,
respectively.
Added readBits method to InputStream.
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