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of the supported formats. of the supported formats.
UPX supports a number of different executable formats, including UPX supports a number of different executable formats, including
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE programs and DLLs, DOS programs, Windows programs and DLLs, macOS apps and Linux executables.
and Linux executables and kernels.
UPX is free software distributed under the term of the GNU General UPX is free software distributed under the term of the GNU General
Public License. Full source code is available. Public License. Full source code is available.
@ -46,11 +45,6 @@ Public License. Full source code is available.
UPX may be distributed and used freely, even with commercial applications. UPX may be distributed and used freely, even with commercial applications.
See the UPX License Agreement for details. See the UPX License Agreement for details.
UPX is rated number one in the well known Archive Comparison Test. Visit
http://compression.ca/ .
UPX aims to be Commercial Quality Freeware.
SECURITY CONTEXT SECURITY CONTEXT
================ ================
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=================== ===================
'upx program.exe' will compress a program or DLL. For best compression 'upx program.exe' will compress a program or DLL. For best compression
results try 'upx --brute program.exe'. results try 'upx --best program.exe' or 'upx --brute program.exe'.
Please see the file UPX.DOC for the full documentation. The files Please see the file UPX.DOC for the full documentation. The files
NEWS and BUGS also contain various tidbits of information. NEWS and BUGS also contain various tidbits of information.
DISCLAIMER
==========
UPX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file LICENSE.
Having said that, we think that UPX is quite stable now. Indeed we
have compressed lots of files without any problems. Also, the
current version has undergone several months of beta testing -
actually it's almost 8 years since our first public beta.
This is the first production quality release, and we plan that future
releases will be backward compatible with this version.
Please report all problems or suggestions to the authors. Thanks.
THE FUTURE THE FUTURE
========== ==========
- AArch64 (64-bit ARM) for Linux and iOS. - Stay up-to-date with ongoing OS and executable format changes.
- The Linux approach could probably get ported to a lot of other Unix - RISC-V 64 for Linux.
variants, at least for other i386 architectures it shouldn't be too
much work. If someone sends me a fresh hard disk and an official
FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris/BeOS... CD I might take a look at it ;-)
- We will *NOT* add any sort of protection and/or encryption. - We will *NOT* add any sort of protection and/or encryption.
This only gives people a false feeling of security because This only gives people a false feeling of security because
by definition all protectors/compressors can be broken. all "protectors" can be broken by definition.
And don't trust any advertisement of authors of other executable
compressors about this topic - just do a websearch on "unpackers"...
- Fix all remaining bugs - keep your reports coming ;-) - Fix all remaining bugs - please report any issues
https://github.com/upx/upx/issues
- See the file PROJECTS in the source code distribution if you want
to contribute.
COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT
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[ The term UPX is a shorthand for the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables [ The term UPX is a shorthand for the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
and holds no connection with potential owners of registered trademarks and holds no connection with potential owners of registered trademarks
or other rights. ] or other rights. ]
[ Feel free to contact us if you have commercial compression requirements
or interesting job offers. ]