Editing Bzip2 (section)

== History ==
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Seward made the first public release of bzip2, version 0.15, in July 1996. The compressor's stability and popularity grew over the next several years, and Seward released version 1.0 in late 2000.{{Citation needed lead|date=February 2014}} Following a nine-year hiatus of updates for the project since 2010, on 4 June 2019 [[Federico Mena]] accepted maintainership of the bzip2 project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://viruta.org/tag/bzip2.html|title=Articles with tag bzip2|website=viruta.org}}</ref> Since June 2021, the maintainer is Micah Snyder.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bzip2's experimental repository is changing maintainership - Federico's Blog|url=https://viruta.org/bzip2-changing-maintainership.html|access-date=2022-07-27|website=viruta.org}}</ref>