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xz

xz is used in Debian source packages. It is transparently decompressed by GNU tar

`--xz'
`-J'
Use xz for compressing or decompressing the archives. See section Creating and Reading Compressed Archives.
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xz
Filename extension .xz
Internet media type application/x-xz
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) org.tukaani.xz-archive
Magic number 0xFD, '7', 'z', 'X', 'Z', 0x00
Developed by The Tukaani Project
Latest release 1.0.4  / 27 August 2009; 5 years ago (2009-08-27)
Open format? Yes
Website tukaani.org/xz/format.html
XZ Utils
Developer(s) The Tukaani Project
Stable release 5.0.7 / 20 September 2014; 8 days ago (2014-09-20)[1]
Preview release 5.1.4beta / 14 September 2014; 14 days ago (2014-09-14)
License public domain
Website tukaani.org/xz/

xz is a lossless data compression program and file format which incorporates the LZMA compression algorithm.

One can think of xz as a stripped-down version of the 7-Zip program. xz has its own file format rather than the .7z format used by 7-Zip (which lacks support for Unix-like file system metadata[2]).

 

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Design[edit]

xz compresses single files as input, and does not bundle multiple files into a single archive. It is therefore common to compress a file that is itself an archive, such as those created by the tar or cpio Unix programs.[2]

History[edit]

Although the original 7-Zip program, which implements LZMA2 compression, is able to produce small files at the cost of speed, it also created its own unique archive format which was made primarily for Windows and did not support Unix functionality.[2]

Implementation[edit]

An implementation of the xz file format is freely available online as XZ Utils. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL and GNU GPL, with the bulk of the software (e.g., liblzma) in the public domain.[3] Version 1.22 of GNU tar supports using this software to handle xz files transparently.[4][5] FreeBSD tar has supported xz transparently since r191190 (released on April 17, 2009).

7-Zip has supported xz since version 9.04 beta (stable since 9.20).[6]

Uses[edit]

xz has gained notability for compressing packages in the GNU coreutils project,[7] Debian family of systems deb (file format), openSUSE,[8] Fedora,[9] Arch Linux,[10] Slackware,[11] FreeBSD,[12] Gentoo,[13] GNOME,[14] and TeX Live,[15] as well as being an option to compress a compiled Linux kernel.[16] In December 2013, the Linux kernel maintainers kernel.org announced that they would use xz instead of bzip2 as their compression tool from 2014 on.[17]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. Jump up ^ XZ Utils Release Notes (Git), Tukaaani
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Lindholm, Linux Gazette .
  3. Jump up ^ XZ Utils Web site
  4. Jump up ^ GNU tar Web site: References
  5. Jump up ^ Changelog for Tar 1.22
  6. Jump up ^ "release history", 7-Zip .
  7. Jump up ^ "files" (FTP), Coreutils, GNU  (see version 7.1 and newer files ending in .tar.xz).
  8. Jump up ^ "openSUSE has moved off of LZMA to xz", News, openSUSE .
  9. Jump up ^ "XZ RPM payloads" (wiki), Features (12 ed.), Fedora .
  10. Jump up ^ "Switching to xz compression for new packages", News, Archlinux .
  11. Jump up ^ Entry (FTP) (changelog) (13.0 ed.), Slackware, Fri May 8 18:49:03 CDT 2009  Check date values in: |date= (help).
  12. Jump up ^ Stable (mailing list post), Free BSD, Jan 2011 .
  13. Jump up ^ "Remove .lzma in favor of .xz portage snapshots" (mailing list post), Dev (RFC), Gentoo .
  14. Jump up ^ "Important: Switch of GNOME tarball compression format" (mailing list post), Devel, Gnome, Apr 2011 .
  15. Jump up ^ tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive (direc­tory), CTAN .
  16. Jump up ^ xz embedded (Git), Tukaani .
  17. Jump up ^ https://www.kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html

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