Updated: p7zip 15.09-1

Updated: p7zip 15.09-1

[Tony Kelman]

Version 15.09-1 of the package p7zip is now available in the Cygwin
distribution.

CHANGES
  - 7-Zip now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images.
  - 7-Zip now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images.
  - assembly routines now supported in 64 bit cygwin
  - cygwin : fix in GetRamSize()
  - 7-Zip now can extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI 
images.
  - 7-Zip now can extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression.
  - 7-Zip now doesn't sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive.
      new -mqs switch to sort files by type while adding to solid 7z 
archive.
  - 7-Zip now can create 7z, xz and zip archives with 1536 MB dictionary for 
LZMA/LZMA2.
  - 7-Zip now can extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression.


DESCRIPTION
p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with
very high compression ratios.  It supports packing/unpacking 7z, zip, gzip
bzip2, xz, tar, and wim archives.  It supports unpacking of arj, cab, chm,
cpio, dmg, hfs, lzh, lzma, wim, xar, z, nsis, deb, rpm, msi, udf, iso, ntfs,
fat, vhd, and mbr archives.  This version does NOT support rar archives.

HOMEPAGE
https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip and http://www.7-zip.org

Best,
Tony Kelman


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[SECURITY] Updated: p7zip 15.09-2

[Tony Kelman]

Version 15.09-2 of the package p7zip is now available in the Cygwin
distribution. This is a security bugfix.

CHANGES
- Includes patch to fix CVE-2015-1038, ref
  https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-01/msg00055.html


DESCRIPTION
p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with
very high compression ratios. It supports packing/unpacking 7z, zip, gzip
bzip2, xz, tar, and wim archives. It supports unpacking of arj, cab, chm,
cpio, dmg, hfs, lzh, lzma, wim, xar, z, nsis, deb, rpm, msi, udf, iso, ntfs,
fat, vhd, and mbr archives. This version does NOT support rar archives.

HOMEPAGE
https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip and http://www.7-zip.org

Best,
Tony Kelman


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