v1.4.0

[piksel]

New minor release focusing on async and supporting newer frameworks.

Note that this version drops support for the EOL .NET 4.5 Framework, but adding explicit support for .NET 6.

Features:

• ✨
  [#672]
  gzip
  add GzipOutputStream async support
  by nils måsén

• ✨
  [#746]
  tar
  support for async streams
  by Nathan

• ✨
  [#689]
  zip
  make it possible to skip header tests
  by nils måsén

• ✨
  [#683]
  zip
  enable ZipOuputStream to write precompressed files
  by Temtaime

• ✨
  [#592]
  zip
  better string encoding handling
  by nils måsén

• ✨
  [#574]
  zip
  ZipOutputStream async support
  by nils måsén

Fixes:

• 🐛
  [#642]
  zip
  handle iterating updated entries in ZipInputStream
  by nils måsén

• 🐛
  [#582]
  tar
  enable unix paths in tar RootPath
  by sensslen

• 🐛
  [#766]
  replace uses of obsolete method RNGCryptoServiceProvider
  by Yihezkel Schoenbrun

• 🐛
  [#675]
  tar
  read full extended headers
  by nils måsén

• 🐛
  [#765]
  zip
  explicitly specify hash method for Rfc2898DeriveBytes
  by Yihezkel Schoenbrun

• 🐛
  [#754]
  zip
  skip reading position for non-seekable async streams
  by nils måsén

• 🐛
  [#750]
  zip
  0 in zip64 local sizes using descriptors
  by nils måsén

• 🐛
  [#736]
  zip
  dont fail test on 0 sizes and descriptor
  by nils måsén

• 🐛
  [#720]
  samples
  bump lib versions to v1.3.3
  by nils måsén

• 🐛
  [#669]
  zip
  use ushort for ITaggedData.TagID
  by Richard Webb

• 🐛
  [#666]
  tar
  permit slashed output dir
  by nils måsén

Other changes (not related to library code):

• ⚙️
  [#727]
  use server 2019 for win builds
  by nils måsén

• 🔧
  [#670]
  remove the test bootstrapper
  by Richard Webb

• 🚨
  [#671]
  repeatability and refactoring
  by nils måsén

• 📚
  [#668]
  zip
  fix slash names in CleanName comment
  by ueli-werner

• 🔧
  [#665]
  add release notes tooling
  by nils måsén

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This discussion was created from the release v1.4.0.