diff --git a/.github/workflows/dotnetcore.yml b/.github/workflows/dotnetcore.yml
index 874cb75e..cbf2b6e2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dotnetcore.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dotnetcore.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v1
     - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
       with:
-        dotnet-version: 5.0.300
+        dotnet-version: 5.0.400
     - run: dotnet run -p build/build.csproj
     - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
       with:
diff --git a/build/build.csproj b/build/build.csproj
index 6fe449c5..1f5e65c7 100644
--- a/build/build.csproj
+++ b/build/build.csproj
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Bullseye" Version="3.7.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Bullseye" Version="3.8.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Glob" Version="1.1.8" />
     <PackageReference Include="SimpleExec" Version="7.0.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
diff --git a/global.json b/global.json
index 49168961..db3bce96 100644
--- a/global.json
+++ b/global.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "sdk": {
-    "version": "5.0.300"
+    "version": "5.0.300",
+    "rollForward": "latestFeature"
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionMethods.cs b/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionMethods.cs
index 738e3f39..8301bceb 100644
--- a/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionMethods.cs
+++ b/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionMethods.cs
@@ -14,14 +14,25 @@ public static void WriteEntryToDirectory(IEntry entry,
                                                  Action<string, ExtractionOptions?> write)
         {
             string destinationFileName;
-            string file = Path.GetFileName(entry.Key);
             string fullDestinationDirectoryPath = Path.GetFullPath(destinationDirectory);
+            
+            //check for trailing slash.
+            if (fullDestinationDirectoryPath[fullDestinationDirectoryPath.Length - 1] != Path.DirectorySeparatorChar)
+            {
+                fullDestinationDirectoryPath += Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
+            }
+
+            if (!Directory.Exists(fullDestinationDirectoryPath))
+            {
+                throw new ExtractionException($"Directory does not exist to extract to: {fullDestinationDirectoryPath}");
+            }
 
             options ??= new ExtractionOptions()
             {
                 Overwrite = true
             };
 
+            string file = Path.GetFileName(entry.Key);
             if (options.ExtractFullPath)
             {
                 string folder = Path.GetDirectoryName(entry.Key)!;
diff --git a/src/SharpCompress/SharpCompress.csproj b/src/SharpCompress/SharpCompress.csproj
index 550e4776..77092183 100644
--- a/src/SharpCompress/SharpCompress.csproj
+++ b/src/SharpCompress/SharpCompress.csproj
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AssemblyTitle>SharpCompress - Pure C# Decompression/Compression</AssemblyTitle>
     <NeutralLanguage>en-US</NeutralLanguage>
-    <VersionPrefix>0.28.3</VersionPrefix>
-    <AssemblyVersion>0.28.3</AssemblyVersion>
-    <FileVersion>0.28.3</FileVersion>
+    <VersionPrefix>0.29.0</VersionPrefix>
+    <AssemblyVersion>0.29.0</AssemblyVersion>
+    <FileVersion>0.29.0</FileVersion>
     <Authors>Adam Hathcock</Authors>
     <TargetFrameworks>netstandard2.0;netstandard2.1;netcoreapp3.1;net5.0</TargetFrameworks>
     <TreatWarningsAsErrors>true</TreatWarningsAsErrors>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <PackageLicense>https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress/blob/master/LICENSE.txt</PackageLicense>
     <GenerateAssemblyTitleAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyTitleAttribute>
     <GenerateAssemblyProductAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyProductAttribute>
-    <Description>SharpCompress is a compression library for NET Standard 2.0/2.1//NET 4.6 that can unrar, decompress 7zip, decompress xz, zip/unzip, tar/untar lzip/unlzip, bzip2/unbzip2 and gzip/ungzip with forward-only reading and file random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip is implemented.</Description>
+    <Description>SharpCompress is a compression library for NET Standard 2.0/2.1/NET 5.0 that can unrar, decompress 7zip, decompress xz, zip/unzip, tar/untar lzip/unlzip, bzip2/unbzip2 and gzip/ungzip with forward-only reading and file random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip is implemented.</Description>
     <LangVersion>9</LangVersion>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>
diff --git a/tests/SharpCompress.Test/SharpCompress.Test.csproj b/tests/SharpCompress.Test/SharpCompress.Test.csproj
index 6227e33e..65dfd34d 100644
--- a/tests/SharpCompress.Test/SharpCompress.Test.csproj
+++ b/tests/SharpCompress.Test/SharpCompress.Test.csproj
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\src\SharpCompress\SharpCompress.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="16.10.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="16.11.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" Version="2.4.3">
       <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
       <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>