May 8, 2026 · 6 min
OxiArc 0.2.8 Released — Hardware-Accelerated Checksums, ISO 9660 Reading, and Zero-Copy Append
Pure Rust archive and compression gets faster and broader. OxiArc 0.2.8 adds SIMD CRC32 via aarch64 PMULL and Snappy CRC32C via SSE4.2, ISO 9660 read support with Joliet filenames, byte-for-byte raw-preserve append for ZIP/LZH, progress/cancel builders for LZ4/Zstd/LZMA, and a per-entry memory limit. ~58k SLoC, 1,281 tests, 12 crates.
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