Release Notes: This release adds support for the lbzip2 and plzip archive programs, native support for handling BZIP2 (.bz2), GZIP (.gz), ZIP (.zip), and TAR (.tar) archives, and convenience library functions for people who want to use the patool functionality in other Python programs.


Release Notes: An error with repacking compressed tar archives with 7z has been fixed. Support for the zopfli compressor has been added.


Release Notes: Archive contents can now be searched. Support for ISO images has been added. Python 3.x support has been fixed. Handling of lzma, lzop, lrzip, and rzip archives has been fixed.


Release Notes: Support for the lzma module in Python >= 3.3 has been added, and repacking of archives with the same format has been optimized.


Release Notes: Support has been added for chmlib and archmage handling Microsoft ITSS/CHM (.chm) archives. The project has moved from Sourceforge to Github.


Release Notes: Support for the following archive programs has been added: Monkey's Audio Compressor (handling .ape archives), shorten (handling .shn archives), flac (handling .flac archives), lhasa (handling .lzh and .lha archives), lcap (handling .cab archives), shar (handling .shar shell archives), and unadf (handling .adf amiga disk archives). The internal MIME database is now initialized correctly on all platforms.