The .xz File Format
===================
-Version 1.1.0 (2022-12-11)
+Version 1.2.0 (2024-01-19)
0. Preface
0.2. Getting the Latest Version
The latest official version of this document can be downloaded
- from <http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt>.
+ from <https://xz.tukaani.org/format/xz-file-format.txt>.
Specific versions of this document have a filename
xz-file-format-X.Y.Z.txt where X.Y.Z is the version number.
For example, the version 1.0.0 of this document is available
- at <http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format-1.0.0.txt>.
+ at <https://xz.tukaani.org/format/xz-file-format-1.0.0.txt>.
0.3. Version History
Version Date Description
+ 1.2.0 2024-01-19 Added RISC-V filter and updated URLs in
+ Sections 0.2 and 7. The URL of this
+ specification was changed.
+
1.1.0 2022-12-11 Added ARM64 filter and clarified 32-bit
ARM endianness in Section 5.3.2,
language improvements in Section 5.4
0x08 2 bytes ARM Thumb filter [1]
0x09 4 bytes SPARC filter
0x0A 4 bytes ARM64 filter [2]
+ 0x0B 2 bytes RISC-V filter
[1] These are for little endian instruction encoding.
This must not be confused with data endianness.
7. References
LZMA SDK - The original LZMA implementation
- http://7-zip.org/sdk.html
+ https://7-zip.org/sdk.html
LZMA Utils - LZMA adapted to POSIX-like systems
- http://tukaani.org/lzma/
+ https://tukaani.org/lzma/
XZ Utils - The next generation of LZMA Utils
- http://tukaani.org/xz/
+ https://xz.tukaani.org/xz-utils/
[RFC-1952]
GZIP file format specification version 4.3
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt
+ https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt
- Notation of byte boxes in section "2.1. Overall conventions"
[RFC-2119]
Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
+ https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
[GNU-tar]
- GNU tar 1.21 manual
- http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Blocking-Factor.html
+ GNU tar 1.35 manual
+ https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Blocking-Factor.html
- Node 9.4.2 "Blocking Factor", paragraph that begins
"gzip will complain about trailing garbage"
- Note that this URL points to the latest version of the
manual, and may some day not contain the note which is in
- 1.21. For the exact version of the manual, download GNU
- tar 1.21: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.21.tar.gz
+ 1.35. For the exact version of the manual, download GNU
+ tar 1.35: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.35.tar.gz