XZ Compressed Archive

File Extension: .xz Developer: The Tukaani Project Views: 41322 Updated: 2011-10-16 10:44:00 Hex: N/A ASCII: N/A

The file compression algorithm XZ which has the .xz file extension is based on the Lempel-Ziv/Markov chain compression which makes it fast and is able to create smaller file archives, it is also successor of the LZMA format.