xz is a lossless data compression file format incorporating the LZMA2 compression algorithm. While xz can only support one file the convention is to bundle a file that is an archive itself, such as those created by the tar or cpio Unix programs.
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An implementation of the xz file format is freely available online under the name XZ Utils. The implementation as of version 4.999.9beta is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL and GNU GPL, with the bulk of the software (e.g., liblzma) in the public domain.[1] Version 1.22 of GNU tar supports using this software to handle xz files transparently.[2][3] FreeBSD tar has supported xz transparently since r191190 (Apr 17 2009).
7-Zip supports xz since version 9.04 beta (stable since 9.20).[4]
xz has gained notability for compressing packages in GNU coreutils project[5], Fedora[6], Arch Linux[7], FreeBSD[8], GNOME[9], Linux Kernels, as well as being an option to compress a compiled Linux Kernel.[10]
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