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  {
    "Id": "206828",
    "ThreadId": "61011",
    "Html": "<p>DotNetZip, the managed-code library and toolset for ZIP files, has been updated.&nbsp; The new version, v1.8, was released today, June 30th.&nbsp; All the 1.7 features are there: password-protected ZIPs, ZIP64, AES encryption, Unicode, Self-extracting archives, streaming, Compact Framework support, and more.</p>\r\n<p>Highlights of the new release:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>There's a COM wrapper for the ZIP library. Now you can use all those great features from environments that &quot;do&quot; COM, like VB6, MS-Office, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, and others.</li>\r\n<li>Significantly improved performance while zipping and unzipping.</li>\r\n<li>Self-extracting archives are now *also* ZIP files, can be opened by any compliant ZIP tool or library. SFX's generated by the tool also have a new cleaner UI, and an execute-on-extract option.</li>\r\n<li>Now stores and extracts File attributes and high-resolution file timestamps accurately.</li>\r\n<li>better quality and compatibility across the board.</li>\r\n<li>a new GZipStream class to replace the BCL's bogus one.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>much more flexibility for adding or extracting files.</li>\r\n<li>The GUI tool is now packaged in an MSI installer, and includes create and extract options, and supports drag-n-drop.</li>\r\n<li>plenty of doc improvements and a bunch of new samples.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><br>DotNetZip is still the easiest-to-use ZIP library for .NET, and is still free and open source.&nbsp; Download the new version today, <a href=\"http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=23152\">http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=23152</a></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
    "PostedDate": "2009-06-29T18:10:33.113-07:00",
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