diff --git a/packages/cache/RELEASES.md b/packages/cache/RELEASES.md
index dce5009ba4..5136919434 100644
--- a/packages/cache/RELEASES.md
+++ b/packages/cache/RELEASES.md
@@ -17,4 +17,7 @@
   - `retry`, `retryTypedResponse`, and `retryHttpClientResponse` moved from `cacheHttpClient` to `requestUtils`
 
 ### 1.0.1
-- Fix bug in downloading large files (> 2 GBs) with the Azure SDK
\ No newline at end of file
+- Fix bug in downloading large files (> 2 GBs) with the Azure SDK
+
+### 1.0.2
+- Use posix archive format to add support for some tools
diff --git a/packages/cache/__tests__/tar.test.ts b/packages/cache/__tests__/tar.test.ts
index ecb6799bc5..b891d85b66 100644
--- a/packages/cache/__tests__/tar.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cache/__tests__/tar.test.ts
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ test('zstd create tar', async () => {
   expect(execMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
     `"${tarPath}"`,
     [
+      '--posix',
       '--use-compress-program',
       'zstd -T0 --long=30',
       '-cf',
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ test('gzip create tar', async () => {
   expect(execMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
     `"${tarPath}"`,
     [
+      '--posix',
       '-z',
       '-cf',
       IS_WINDOWS ? CacheFilename.Gzip.replace(/\\/g, '/') : CacheFilename.Gzip,
diff --git a/packages/cache/package-lock.json b/packages/cache/package-lock.json
index 647bfc9281..2755a274b1 100644
--- a/packages/cache/package-lock.json
+++ b/packages/cache/package-lock.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@actions/cache",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "version": "1.0.2",
   "lockfileVersion": 1,
   "requires": true,
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/cache/package.json b/packages/cache/package.json
index c41de866a4..52c8c3bbd1 100644
--- a/packages/cache/package.json
+++ b/packages/cache/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@actions/cache",
-  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "version": "1.0.2",
   "preview": true,
   "description": "Actions cache lib",
   "keywords": [
diff --git a/packages/cache/src/internal/tar.ts b/packages/cache/src/internal/tar.ts
index 7f836b83d3..680433e741 100644
--- a/packages/cache/src/internal/tar.ts
+++ b/packages/cache/src/internal/tar.ts
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ export async function createTar(
     }
   }
   const args = [
+    '--posix',
     ...getCompressionProgram(),
     '-cf',
     cacheFileName.replace(new RegExp(`\\${path.sep}`, 'g'), '/'),