Changelog#

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[0.4.0] - 2026-04-25#

Bug Fixes#

• Trigger publish workflow explicitly from release-plz
• Preserve per-stage config via Compressor::clone_boxed
• Follow symlinks in container pre-walk to match walker
• Enable ZIP64 to support archives with entries >4GiB
• Avoid panics on non-UTF8 filenames
• Show known total on pipeline compression bar

Documentation#

• List brotli, snappy, and lzma in supported formats

Features#

• Add brotli compression support
• Add snappy framed compression support
• Add legacy LZMA1 compression support
• Recognize .tgz/.tbz/.tbz2/.txz/.tzst shortcut extensions
• Add --force / -f to overwrite existing output
• Generate shell completions and man page
• Add --list / -l to print archive contents
• Add 7zip backend with sevenz-rust2
• Add --level compression level support
• Add --level compression level support
• Add progress bars with shared pre-walk helper
• Add progress bars during compression
• Add progress bars during extraction
• Add progress bars during compression
• Add progress bars during extraction
• Install shell completions and document usage
• Accept compound format prefix like tar.gz as first arg
• Preserve shortcut format string in default output name
• Add --append flag for growing tar and zip archives in place

Miscellaneous Tasks#

• Declare MSRV of 1.88 in Cargo.toml
• Validate aarch64 in nix.yml and attach static binaries to releases
• Pin all GitHub Actions to commit SHAs

Refactor#

• Extract shared I/O helpers for single-stream codecs
• Extract job inference into its own module
• Add LevelArgs::resolve to trim backend constructors
• Extract mechanical helpers from get_job
• Linearize output/action/compressor resolution in get_job
• Eliminate Action::Unknown in favor of Option
• Gate behind cfg(test) to exclude from release binary
• Unify single + shortcut extension lookup in chain_from_ext
• Collect compressors directly instead of round-tripping names
• Replace wildcard utils imports with explicit ones
• Drop redundant overrides and dead-code allows
• Consolidate stream-codec scaffolding via prepare_output/copy_stream
• Share threaded stage driver across compress/extract/list
• Use inc-based ProgressReader for shared bars
• Move clone_boxed to blanket helper trait
• Collapse --decompress into --extract alias
• Replace non-test unwraps with proper error handling

Styling#

• Rename ExtractedTarget variants to CamelCase
• Unify error message prefixes across job and backends
• Apply cargo fmt

Testing#

• Add lzma, brotli, tar, zip, and tar.* pipeline interop tests
• Add tar.{bz2,zst,lzma,br,lz4,sz} roundtrip tests
• Add snappy and tar.{lzma,br,lz4,sz} interop tests

[0.3.0] - 2026-03-29#

Bug Fixes#

• Improve the compression level helpers
• Disable progress bar in test.sh
• Replace panics with proper Writer handling in all backends
• Use correct changelog_config field in release-plz config
• Correct snapcore/action-publish SHA pin
• Match release-plz branch name prefix in PR detection
• Fetch full git history for release-plz changelog generation

Documentation#

• Add installation instructions
• Update README with badges
• Note that compression libraries are statically compiled

Features#

• Adding support for unencrypted zip files
• Improve tar with pipe support and more
• Add progress bar to gzip
• Add zstd support
• Add lz4 support
• Add static build for bzip2
• Add multi-level compression support

Miscellaneous Tasks#

• Add code coverage uploading
• Improving code coverage infrastructure
• Fixing code coverage upload
• Fixing typo in taskfile
• Overhaul of flake to use flake-parts
• Loosen cargo dep restrictions
• Update nix deps
• Taskfile cleanup
• Remove unnecessary nixpkgs from flake-parts
• Iterate on the flake
• Add vscode files to gitignore
• Iterate on the taskfile
• Stop building tests in nix build .#cmprss
• Fiddle with the nix build and ci
• Pin versions of actions helpers
• Add FUNDING.yml
• Setting up Github<->Codeberg syncing
• Add task clippy:fix
• Run all Tasks even if no files have changed
• Bump nix flake deps
• Bump cargo deps
• Taskfile fixups
• Fix treefmt by pointing directly to a rustfmt binary
• Adding pkg-config for updated cargo deps
• Remove unused KNOWN_EXTENSIONS, replace unreachable fallbacks with asserts
• Statically link xz/lzma, update README
• Bump nix flake deps
• Bump cargo deps
• Add release profile optimizations and dev dep opt-level
• Replace cargo-audit with cargo-deny for comprehensive dependency checks
• Add typos and shfmt to treefmt
• Add shellcheck, actionlint, statix, deadnix as nix checks
• Switch from Taskfile (go-task) to justfile
• Relicense from MIT to AGPL-3.0-or-later
• Add fully static musl build via nix
• Add snapcraft packaging and CI
• Add missing metadata fields to snap
• Migrate release flow to release-plz with publish workflow
• Add git-cliff config for release-plz changelog generation

Refactor#

• Consolidate compression backends into dedicated module
• Consolidate compressor lookup into single registry
• Unify single-level and multi-level compressor selection
• Rename MultiLevelCompressor to Pipeline and update module/comments
• Use io::Error::other() and eliminate unwrap() calls
• Migrate error handling from io::Error to anyhow

Styling#

• Pin rustfmt edition to 2024, simplify treefmt rustfmt config

Testing#

• Move comparison tests into Rust integration suite
• Move the tar comparison tests into Rust
• Add unit tests for pipeline extension scanning and trait methods

[0.2.0] - 2024-02-27#

Bug Fixes#

• Remove leftover comment
• Flush xz encoder/decoder to show correct output size
• Error correction for 0 sized chunks
• Restrict compression levels of bzip2

Documentation#

• Add categories to Cargo.toml
• Update the crate description

Features#

• Add bzip2 support
• Add shortcut for cargo audit
• Switch out just for go-task
• Pretty print the error messages
• Add a progress bar to xz
• Add argument to control progress bar
• Add an option to set the chunk size for monitoring progress
• Allow compression levels 'none' 'fast' 'best'
• Add progress bar to bzip2
• Allow decompress as an alias of extract
• Add the magic cli

Miscellaneous Tasks#

• Overcomplicate the taskfile
• Add git-cliff to generate changelogs
• Release v0.2.0

Refactor#

• Minor changes to the utils
• Move the args and parsing logic into compressor modules

Styling#

• Fix clippy warnings

Testing#

• Add tests for input parsing
• Add a test script against the official tools

Build#

• Add a commit helper script

[0.1.0] - 2023-12-09#

Bug Fixes#

• Set name for devshell
• Remove unused gzip::EXT
• Removing unnecessary comments
• Fixing bug while checking input extension
• Cleaning up some comments and naming
• Improve error message when inferring output name
• Improve output identification
• Use first file's name to generate output filename
• Default extracted filename for gzip

Documentation#

• Update package description
• Add shorthand alias for gzip
• Add usage examples
• Cleanup the README
• Add contributing guide
• Add note about test coverage
• Renaming my GH account to arcuru
• Update description of gzip roundtrip tests
• Cleanup of the README

Features#

• Adding tar extraction
• Use subcommands
• Make tar operate on generic Readers/Writers
• Adding gzip support
• Allow compressing/extracting to a pipe
• Make the input filename optional
• Allow multiple input files to compression
• Adding test stubs
• Init Rust workflow
• Rewrite cli parsing
• Add justfile for short scripts
• Add flags to ignore just stdin or stdout pipes
• Add test target to justfile
• Add xz support
• Extend the check script
• Add .envrc

Miscellaneous Tasks#

• Bump flake deps
• Expand Rust action
• Ignore direnv cache
• Add act and prettier to the environment
• Add Nix action
• Switch flake to use flake-parts and nci
• All deps
• Nix deps
• Rust deps
• Release v0.1.0

Refactor#

• Redo the dispatching with generics
• Use common arguments struct
• Standardize the interface for compressors
• Use common fn for constructing errors
• Simplifying the compressor API
• Simplify gzip compression and extraction
• Remove the unused extract command

Styling#

• Use descriptive names in CI

Testing#

• Add some tar cli tests with target inference
• Use nextest to run tests

Build#

• Rewrite flake to use crane
• Add separate cmprss package/app
• Add overlay for easier consumption
• Fix overlay output
• Remove code coverage from nix flake check

Dev#

• Switch to using treefmt

[0.0.1] - 2023-04-02#

Bug Fixes#

• Disable clippy pre-commit

Documentation#

• Adding basic cargo info

Features#

• Add initial hello world
• Adding flake for dependency management
• Add tar compression

Miscellaneous Tasks#

• Add nix result folder to gitignore
• Bump flake deps