The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.
Authors of XZ Utils
===================
- XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin
- <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> and Jia Tan <jiat0218@gmail.com>.
+ XZ Utils is developed and maintained by
+ Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>.
Major parts of liblzma are based on code written by Igor Pavlov,
specifically the LZMA SDK <https://7-zip.org/sdk.html>. Without
- Jonathan Nieder
- Joachim Henke
+ Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and
+ the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into
+ XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when
+ this was discovered.
+
Many people have contributed improvements or reported bugs.
Most of these people are mentioned in the file THANKS.
6. Contact information
----------------------
- If you have questions, bug reports, patches etc. related to XZ Utils,
- the project maintainers Lasse Collin and Jia Tan can be reached via
- <xz@tukaani.org>.
-
- You might find Lasse also from #tukaani on Libera Chat (IRC).
- The nick is Larhzu. The channel tends to be pretty quiet,
- so just ask your question and someone might wake up.
+ Email: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
+ IRC: Larhzu on #tukaani on Libera Chat
+ GitHub: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz
- Martin Storsjö
- Jonathan Stott
- Dan Stromberg
- - Jia Tan
- Vincent Torri
- Alexey Tourbin
- Paul Townsend
*
* liblzma is part of XZ Utils <https://tukaani.org/xz/>. XZ Utils
* includes a gzip-like command line tool named xz and some other tools.
- * XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin and Jia Tan.
+ * XZ Utils is developed and maintained by Lasse Collin.
*
* Major parts of liblzma are based on code written by Igor Pavlov,
* specifically the LZMA SDK <https://7-zip.org/sdk.html>.