Minizip was originally developed in 1998. It was first included in the zlib distribution as an additional code contribution starting in zlib 1.1.2. Since that time, it has been continually improved upon and contributed to by many people. + Creating and extracting zip archives. + Adding and removing entries from zip archives. + Read and write raw zip entry data. + Reading and writing zip archives from memory. + Zlib, BZIP2, LZMA, and ZSTD compression methods. + Password protection through Traditional PKWARE and WinZIP AES encryption. + Buffered streaming for improved I/O performance.