BZip2 1.1 development archived

August 3, 2026

It appears that on about July 8, 2026 the BZip2 1.1 development repository was archived with the message:

BZip2/libbz2 is a program and library for lossless, block-sorting data compression. This fork for v1.1+ development is has been archived due to lack of interest, and because there are better options available through the Rust ecosystem.

and further discussion. This Gitlab repo was linked from the original SourceWare BZip2 page.