sharpcompress

v0.49.0

SharpCompress is a compression library for NET 4.8/NET Standard 2.0/NET Standard 2.1/NET 5.0/NET 6.0/NET 7.0/NET 8.0/NET 9.0/NET 10.0 that can unrar, decompress 7zip, decompress xz, zip/unzip, tar/untar lzip/unlzip, bzip2/unbzip2 and gzip/ungzip with forward-only reading and file random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip/7zip is implemented.

adamhathcock

rar unrar zip unzip bzip2 gzip tar 7zip lzip xz

NuGet Stats Changelog

Total Downloads

357.5M

357,479,520

Published

May 28, 2026

Latest stable version

Install

.NET CLI

dotnet add package sharpcompress --version 0.49.0

Package Manager Console

Install-Package sharpcompress -Version 0.49.0

PackageReference

<PackageReference Include="sharpcompress" Version="0.49.0" />

Frameworks

net10.0 .NETFramework4.8 net6.0 net8.0 .NETStandard2.0 .NETStandard2.1

Dependencies

Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces

.NETFramework4.8

[8.0.0, )

System.Text.Encoding.CodePages

.NETFramework4.8

[8.0.0, )

Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces

.NETStandard2.0

[8.0.0, )

System.Text.Encoding.CodePages

.NETStandard2.0

[8.0.0, )

Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces

.NETStandard2.1

[8.0.0, )

System.Text.Encoding.CodePages

.NETStandard2.1

[8.0.0, )

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