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tar-codec: a fast and secure tar parser for the Rust ecosystem

10.27

We're releasing tar-codec, a new tar encoding/decoding library for Rust. tar-codec is already the default in uv, and improves uv's tar handling performance by over 2x while also improving our posture…

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