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> We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows.

This is easily the most exciting part of the whole announcement.

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Yes, but why did it take so many years?

probably because they were spending all those years putting annoying ads in the OS and start menu.

MS has enough developers to build two features at the same time.

But not to fix annoying and abundantly obvious bugs, apparently

1. Ads in the Start Menu.

2. Ads in the rest of the OS.

You would think, yet WinUI 3.0 is years away to achieve parity with WinUI 2.0/UWP tooling.

Hopefully it reaches parity with WPF before the OS gets EOL'd

Or with the pleothora of AI announcements at BUILD, they will get CoPilot to do it for us. /s

So what you're suggesting is that they won't put any more annoying ads in the OS? ;)

The Big WinRAR lobby /s

What about zstd?

Update: looks like no: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm... :(

The wiki page is just out of date. It's been supported in libarchive for several years, though it's optional at compile time, so this new Windows build might not have it (I didn't check).

Interesting, thx! Fingers crossed, as zstd is awesome.

Wonder if it includes support for encrypted 7zip/rar archives, including support to add/modify. From libarchive notes it looks like zip format encrypted archives are supported.

Or you could just install 7zip.

Where is zstandard or lz4 on ntfs? Meta and data checksumming and autorecovery? New and improved filesystems?

You mean ReFS?

ReFS doesn't have compression at all and didn't have boot though it looks like win11 is getting it now.

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