Pierre Alain Joye, in a new post over his blog, details some of the long-waited features that have been added to Zip. The added features come in the form of pattern and glob support. Pierre says it is now possible to add files using a glob pattern syntax or regexp (PCRE based).

Another new method, getStatusString returns the error message containing the system/zlib or zip error, which is handy while debugging. Pierre presents two examples using glob and the PCRE pattern to try out the syntax of the new method.

Zip extraction using patterns or glob will be added before the first 1.9.x-stable. Note that this release is still in alpha and is not recommended for upgradation in your production server. A stable release with the new features is planned for mid-February