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The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (c) 1996-2006 Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser
http://upx.sourceforge.net
MAJOR NEWS IN UPX 2
===================
The main news since 1.25 are:
* new format: added support for arm/pe (ARM executables running on WinCE)
* new format: added support for linux elf/amd64
* new format: added support for linux elf/ppc32
* new format: added support for mach/ppc32 (Apple Mac OS X)
* new format: added support for bootable Linux kernels ("vmlinuz/386")
* new format: added support for Playstation exes ("ps1/exe")
* slightly better compression using the new NRV2E algorithm
* new options for compression tuning (e.g. '--brute')
* improved win32/pe compatibility
* direct ELF-to-memory decompression
* various bug fixes