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  {
    "Id": "173010",
    "ThreadId": "51580",
    "Html": "Announcement; v1.8.2.3 is now available.  <br>\r\n<br>\r\nNew features in v1.8, as compared to v1.7: <br>\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li>workitem 7366: DotNetZip is now ComVisible, usable from Javascript, VBScript, Perl, PHP, etc. </li>\r\n    <li>The Zip Reduced library is now marked as CLS Compliant and APTC.  CLS-compliance on Ionic.Zlib.dll also. </li>\r\n    <li>The Runtime is now a RELEASE dll, which is significantly faster than the debug DLL. </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 7241: better extract options when files already exist in the filesystem </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 7192: just-in-time stream provisioning when adding entries. </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 7072: file selector support (including wildcards) for Add/Extract/Remove/Select </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 7159: Ionic.Zlib.GZipStream, to replace the dysfunctional BCL class. </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 7067: SFX improvements. Now, SFX files are ZIP files as well as EXE files, and can be read, edited, updated by DotNetZip or by WinZip. Also, user interface improvements. </li>\r\n    <li>Improvements in the WinForms Zip tool. Now supports extract as well as create. It can be used as a replacement for WinZip. It gets set as the default &quot;Open&quot; tool for zip files in Windows Explorer when you install via the MSI. Also, myriad UI improvements. It uses and exposes the file selector stuff: You can extract &quot;*.xml&quot; from the UI. </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 7071: Properly store/set file attributes on Zip/Extract </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 6878: Properly encode and extract NTFS atime/mtime/ctime. </li>\r\n    <li>now sets LastMod time on Extract() on .NET Compact Framework </li>\r\n    <li>workitem 7191: icons set in Windows Explorer when the MSI is installed. </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\nDotNetZip is still free.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCheck it out! <br>\r\n",
    "PostedDate": "2009-03-27T22:14:52.757-07:00",
    "UserRole": null,
    "MarkedAsAnswerDate": null
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