v1.0.0.776

CompressionWorkbench v1.0.0.776

Self-contained Windows UI, Windows CLI (cwb.exe) and Linux CLI
(cwb) builds, plus the version-locked Hawkynt.* NuGet packages
(Compression.Core / FileFormats.Audio / Archives / FileSystems).

Added

• FilePayload / DeferredPayloads, and EFS, HTFS and JFS1 past 2 GB (cd2c7b8)
• Btrfs: stream a file's bytes out instead of collecting them in memory (d9cf3e5)
• ImageAccessor: random-access reads for images past the 2 GB array limit (133219f)
• squishy demoscene PE compressor: detect + locate handler (0d9e52c)
• ExePackers: reconcile static unpackers + honesty audit of the analysis stack (fb0edd1)
• ELF crypter/packer unpackers: Ezuri, Ward, m0dern_p4cker, MidgetPack (ce5f009)
• ExePackers campaign base: CLI unpack/inspect, XOR/PyPE handlers, dataset probe (bfc61c3)
• FileFormat.ExePackers: add dataset-packed-pe detection and apLib/NRV support (fa509dc)
• Apple Partition Map + BSD disklabel parsers; Parallels/Bochs disk images now browsable (6a562e9)
• first-class symbolic-link support across filesystems + correct pointed-to size (f56fd51)
• RAID array assembly layer (Linux mdraid + Intel IMSM) — mdadm-proven RAID0/1/5 (d2da1f2)
• CB7 (Comic Book 7z) full R/W + EGG (ALZip) clean-room reader (fc3c3fb)
• reference documentation for the 21 remaining archive descriptors (post-merge gap) (6021a21)
• BitRock / InstallBuilder installer: full clean-room application extraction (411784a)
• ARM64 & RISC-V BCJ filters (liblzma parity) + full BCJ building-block family (fc6f561)
• Electron .asar + Motorola SREC file formats (1d1ffcc)
• Pack200 (JSR-200) unpacker: detect + segment decode + class listing (2387c3b)
• AndroidSparse, VIB & NBI image/installer formats (0a06226)
• PyInstaller onefile CArchive extractor (MEI cookie scan, PYZ module list) (8730a49)
• Reference documentation for all filesystem + archive descriptors (c55b50f)
• 49 archive formats promoted to honest R/W + wipe/defrag verb coverage (0f4cf89)
• close the last filesystem maintenance-verb gaps: ZxScl wipe, GsOs defrag/shrink, Stacker shrink (c8dee35)
• ext in-place SHRINK now relocates blocks (single-group), not just trailing-free trim (25f5f48)
• NTFS genuine relocate-not-rebuild image SHRINK + ext trailing-free trim — O(bytes moved) (c67d0a4)
• 7z & RAR5 genuine in-place REMOVE/update — compact in O(bytes shifted), no re-pack (126ea20)
• real host-kernel loop-mount proof for in-place MinixV1/V2 + Nilfs2; matrix 49->50 tool-proven (d197f54)

Removed

• Dicom, Nifti, Wad and Wad2 leave the archive bundle to the image bundle (f4ef46d)
• ConversionMatrix: retire the ExFat, Hpfs and Rpm quarantine entries (b9cd759)
• Drop stale interop Ignore markers on gzip, zip and Brotli encoding (695d3b8)

Changed

• APFS, HPFS and ext: accept a single file larger than 2 GB (daa50ec)
• Stream formats: decompress straight to disk instead of through a byte[] (0b43e3a)
• ShrinkEfficacy: bound the preset to what the readers can load back (37d36e1)
• EndToEnd: exclude whole-image targets from the self-round-trip matrix (e8a67f7)
• EXE-PACKER-COVERAGE: mark AtomPePacker out-of-scope (platform policy); tidy gap list (29f73d2)
• FileFormats: update UPX and PyInstaller components for ExePackers integration (19d43d7)
• verification matrix: SIM tier is empty — the 11 simplified/toy writers never existed in the repo (edba036)

Fixed

• BFS: build the volume over the sparse image, and refuse a run it cannot express (8cbba99)
• JFS: build the aggregate over the sparse image instead of one array (dfacc5d)
• RomFS: assemble the image without holding its file data (e421f3d)
• OCFS2: take an inline file's bytes from its payload (d89ead9)
• OCFS2: build and read a volume past 2 GB (857a55e)
• UFS: build the volume over the sparse image instead of one array (555a27f)
• FATX: build and read an image past 2 GB (9b0fae6)
• NILFS1: write a volume past 2 GB (becca22)
• HFS+: build and read a volume past 2 GB (1869be8)
• LittleFS and YAFFS2: emit the image piecewise instead of as one array (ebc8b9b)
• EROFS and ODS-1: build and read images past 2 GB (b785c27)
• GFS1: lift the array ceiling from the writer, reader and extent map (2d7d44e)
• QNX6 and VDFS: build and read images past 2 GB (e68a013)
• AdvFS: keep the full entry name in Create (c8dbc6f)
• AdvFS: build and read a storage domain past 2 GB (cfd2bba)
• ISO 9660, QNX4 and the shared rebuild verbs: lift the 2 GB ceiling (56e21d5)
• FAT: honour a forced FAT12/16/32 type instead of building a mismatched volume (8822e76)
• Filesystem maintenance verbs: correct results before and after, past 2 GB (19e3833)
• ext: emit real block groups so a volume is no longer capped at one group (82160fc)
• HPFS: lay metadata out before file data so volumes past 2 GB can be written (d0a06f1)
• APFS and Btrfs: build and read containers whose contents exceed 2 GB (5e5f90e)
• Btrfs: write the volume as a prefix and extend it, instead of one big array (c492d00)
• ext: map files through the full indirect chain, and size the volume to them (807c9a8)
• Lustre: keep the ldiskfs stream alive for the ExtReader that reads it (a2ecf2d)
• ext, btrfs and HPFS: read volumes past the 2 GB in-memory limit (6e5522a)
• LZ4: write a sequence of frames instead of buffering the payload (b8eee6c)
• CPIO and AR: list and extract members larger than 2 GB (0c3ae2c)
• Zstd and XZ: emit a frame/stream per chunk instead of buffering the payload (d671e03)
• Archives: create, list and extract entries larger than 2 GB (f025526)
• TFAT and FAT+: stream large volumes, and keep defrag's outer size (b5abff0)
• NTFS: build, read and edit volumes past the 2 GB in-memory limit (0e111b1)
• FAT: apply edits by streaming rebuild when the image is too large to buffer (7b85c8f)
• exFAT: size the allocation bitmap by cluster count, and build large volumes sparsely (bf60e29)
• FAT: route explicitly-sized images through the streaming writer (20c5220)
• HPFS: correct the superblock magics and emit a directory band (eeac610)
• RPM: decompress the payload before parsing it as cpio (43d8352)
• FormatDetector: read far enough to identify filesystems by content (28846b1)
• Polyglot: read py7zr archives through extractall (d902eaf)
• ExternalInterop tests: resolve external tools through PATH (08340b7)
• Brotli: restore the whitespace class in the UTF8 literal context LUT (9cef61d)
• CI Release build: drop CLI ProjectReference that copied publish-only deps.json (5c25828)
• Cb7: declare no magic signature (fixes Cb7-vs-SevenZip content-scan collision) (7e92178)
• SfxBuilderTests: deterministic stub bytes — kill a probabilistic CI flake (9dceb93)
• ExtBlockMover: fix corrupt ee_start_hi on extent relocation (>>32 shift no-op) (a84f1b0)