DotNetZip is deprecated. What is the easiest replacement for .NET Framework 4.8?
04:15 01 Aug 2024

We have a Solution targeting .NET Framework 4.8 with over 80 projects in it, and a few projects in this Solution reference a nuget package for DotNetZip. This has now been deprecated:

Screen shot of Deprecation message

I would really like to avoid having to rewrite large chunks of code to target a different package. We started off using Ionic.zip. This package was deprecated a good while ago now, but it came with a recommendation "This package is deprecated. Use DotNetZip instead." and we replaced Ionic.Zip with DotNetZip. That was easy. But with the deprecation of DotNetZip all we're getting is "This package version is deprecated", without any recommendation re. what to replace it with.

Now what?

.net-4.8 dotnetzip