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1.13

* Added support for ZSTANDARD archives with the zstd tool.
* Improved patool diff output: when two archives each have
only one entry, compare those entries directly instead of
the parent directory.
* Replace deprecated distutils with setuptools to fix build errors
with modern Python environments.
Closes: GH bug 114, 103
* Disable password prompting with 7z in non-interactive mode with
the option "-p-".
Thanks to Pascua Theus for the patch.
* Disable sandbox mode for file(1) to fix detection of compressed tar
archives on systems with libseccomp.
Thanks to Alfred Wingate for the patch.
* Remove read-only directories after a diff comparison of two archives.
Thanks to c01o for the patch.

1.12

* Add winrar to default search path on Windows.
* Improve usage documentation on Windows.
Closes: GH bug 19

1.11

* Fix 7z unpacking when only p7zip with /usr/bin/7zr is installed.
* Support comic book archives: .cb7 for 7z, .cba for ACE, .cbr for RAR,
.cbt for TAR and .cbz for ZIP archives.

1.10

* Added support for VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) archives with 7z.

1.9

* Fix ZPAQ archive creation.
Patch by vitlav
* Fix ZPAQ archive testing.
* Add more search paths for rar libraries.
Patch by vitlav
Closes: GH bug 30
* Fix support URL
Closes: GH bug 28
* Updated PyPI trove classifiers to include Python 3
Closes: GH bug 25
* Added new option --non-interactive to avoid commandline prompts of
archive programs.
Closes: GH bug 16, 24

1.8

* Added support for ZPAQ archives.
Closes: GH bug 14
* Use options for maximum compression when creating archives
and the archive program has such options.
* Added a new "recompress" command which tries to reduce the
size of the compressed archive.
* Add BZIP2 creation to 7z and 7za commands.

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