XZ Utils
| XZ Utils | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Lasse Collin |
| Developer | The Tukaani Project |
| Stable release | 5.8.3
/ 31 March 2026 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Data compression |
| License |
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| Website | tukaani |
| Repository | |
XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) is a set of free-software command-line lossless data compressors, including the programs lzma and xz, for Unix-like operating systems and, from version 5.0 onwards, Microsoft Windows. For compression/decompression the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) is used. XZ Utils started as a Unix port of Igor Pavlov's LZMA-SDK that has been adapted to fit seamlessly into Unix environments and their usual structure and behavior.