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1 2009-08-13: atool 0.37.0 released.
2 Added support for lzip and xz (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3 Fixed bug in arepack command with tar archives.
4 The number of bytes saved is now printed in 'repack' mode (suggested by
5 Meino Christian Cramer).
6 Don't use -U parameter (to delete original archive) for lzop.
7 Added link to ATrpms repository to home page.
8 Added support for GNU tar's --xv, --lzop, and --lzma options when the
9 corresponding atool options are enabled (use_tar_xv_option,
10 use_tar_lzop_option and use_tar_lzma_option).
11 Better checking of config file variables.
13 2009-02-26: atool 0.36.0 released.
14 Fix problem not identifying ZIP archives using file (from mollifier).
15 Fix problem with escaping characters in UTF-8 locales.
16 Don't use -r when creating rar archives, it recurses subdirs as expected
17 by default.
19 2008-06-08: atool 0.35.0 released.
20 Now detect self-extracting ZIP archives using file (suggested by Jens
21 Schleusener).
22 Added "use_file_always" option to always identify using file (suggested
23 by Thomas Link).
24 Now identify compressed files (bzip2, bzip, gzip, compress) when using
25 "use_file" option.
26 Improved error messages (from Ed Avis).
27 Fix manpage hyphens (patch from Francois Marier).
28 Added -o, --option option to change a configuration option.
29 Added support for rzip and lrzip archives.
30 Use '-c' option with compressors such as gzip and bzip2 when piping
31 output.
32 Added support for pbzip2 (added configuration options path_pbzip2 and
33 use_pbzip2).
35 2008-04-03: atool 0.34.0 released.
36 Added support for lzma (suggested by Ed Avis and Leif Thande, patch from
37 Nick Matteo).
38 Added extra directory.
39 Now using automake.
41 2007-08-22: atool 0.33.0 released.
42 Change order of arguments in tar commands.
43 Use 'f' option to tar when using archive from stdin/to stdout (by
44 reported by Shotaro Aoyama).
45 Fix configuration file bug: "use_arj_for_unpack" did not work
46 (reported by Simon Peter).
47 Minor build and documentation updates.
49 2005-12-13: atool 0.32.0 released.
50 Fixed bug in repack mode: Could not repack a compressed file into an
51 archive, but could (incorrectly) repack an archive to a compressed file
52 (reported by Meino Christian Cramer).
53 Print ellipsis properly in output ("...", not "..") (patch from Ed Avis).
54 Added support for Microsoft Cabinet archives.
55 Ignore waitpid errors on win32 (patch from Ed Avis).
57 2005-08-08: web page updated.
58 Fixed some typos in the web page and NEWS file (will be updated for next
59 release).
61 2005-08-08: atool 0.31.0 released.
62 ATTENTION: This release fixes a serious bug which might cause files and
63 directories to be removed in some circumstances when using adiff. I
64 recommend upgrading to the 0.31.0 immediately. If you cannot upgrade, you
65 are safe as long as you do not use the adiff command on untrusted
66 archives.
67 Here are the details: Symbolic links would be followed when temporary
68 directories were removed recursively. Only the adiff command removed
69 directories in this way - the extracted files of the archives it
70 compared. This means that if you ran adiff on an archive containing a
71 symbolic link that pointed to, say, /foo, /foo would be removed
72 recursively! This was due to a missing check for symbolic links. This bug
73 was found by code auditing, and has been fixed in this release.
74 Added arepack command (also -r, --repack) (previously incomplete and
75 disabled, also suggested by Meino Christian Cramer).
76 Added support for 7-Zip'ed TAR archives (.tar.7z) (suggested by Meino
77 Christian Cramer).
78 Implemented cat support for 7-Zip archives.
79 Completed list of supported archive types in the manual page (some were
80 missing).
81 Improve --simulate and --explain.
82 Added support for acat on Debian packages (patch from Peter Valdemar
83 Mørch).
84 Added support for extracting control files from Debian packages as well
85 (patch from Peter Valdemar Mørch, thanks).
86 Fixed some manual page typos.
88 2005-07-25: atool 0.30.0 released.
89 Added support for 7-Zip archives (.7z) using p7zip (suggested by Meino
90 Christian Cramer).
91 Added support for ALZip archives (.alz) using unalz.
92 Added support for Debian package archives (.deb) files (contributed by
93 Joao Lourenco).
94 Fixed some typos in the manual page (reported by Stephane Jourdois).
95 Added file matches for LHA SFX archives.
96 Updated building of rpm and debian packages.
97 Updated documentation.
98 Got rid of year ranges in copyright.
100 2004-07-05: atool 0.29.0 released.
101 Added support for ar archive (.a) files (suggested by Wojtek Sczygiol).
102 Improved and cleaned up handling of compressed files (single file
103 archives), resulting in some bugs fixed.
104 Deal with compressed files (.gz, .bz2, ..) differently, fixing some bugs.
105 These files are now extracted to current directory.
106 Implemented new options 'decompress_to_cwd'.
108 2004-06-18: atool 0.28.0 released.
109 'make install' will now build everything before installing.
110 Use detected perl path in atool executable (reported by Ed Avis).
111 Fixed extraction of files from LHA archives (reported by Goetz Waschk and
112 Matthew Mueller).
114 2003-11-14: atool 0.27.0 released.
115 Support for autoconf has been added (based on files from Hisham Muhammad,
116 thanks).
117 Added support for ARC files (suggested by Ed Avis).
118 Added support for using the arj command for ARJ archives (previously only
119 unarj was supported).
120 Cleaned up and improved the manual page and README document.
121 Fixed RAR identification from file(1) output.
122 Now uses tar --bzip2 option instead of -j. The use_tar_j_option has been
123 renamed to use_tar_bzip2_option (patch submitted by Ed Avis, thanks).
124 Renamed the use_rar_for_unrar option to use_rar_for_unpack (old options
125 will still work).
126 Bumped copyright year.
127 Removed the distdiff make target.
129 2003-05-23: atool 0.26.0 released.
130 Added a new configuration option, use_rar_for_unrar (always use rar
131 instead of unrar when possible).
132 Added a new configuration option, strip_unknown_ext (strip unknown
133 extensions). Patch submitted by Götz Waschk - thanks!
134 Tried to make atool more portable by using File::Spec more.
135 Some minor bug fixes for --simulate mode.
136 Cleaned up error messages.
138 2002-11-08: atool 0.25.0 released.
139 Implemented a new option keep_compressed to control whether the original
140 file should be kept after packing/unpacking compressed files.
141 Cleaned up code for handling compressed files.
142 Now refuses to compress multiple files into one.
143 Don't pass -r option to unrar.
144 Cleaned up and simplified the code a little (remove exec argument).
145 Use unrar instead of rar when not creating RAR archives. A new option,
146 path_unrar was added. (Requested by Götz Waschk.)
147 Use cpio for archives that file(1) reports as "ASCII cpio archive".
148 Replaced 'refuse to overwrite' wording with 'refusing to overwrite'.
149 Updated manual page:
150 Replaced 'single-file-compressor' wording with 'file compressor'.
151 Clarified meaning of PATH value to -X option.
153 2002-10-09: atool 0.24.0 released.
154 If PAGER is set, use that for default pager instead.
155 Debian and RPM packages now include symlinks to the manpage for aunpack,
156 apack etc too. These symlinks are also installed during make install.
157 Build fixes for RPM package from Götz Waschk (thanks).
158 Don't set root:root owner when installing files in Makefile.
160 2002-09-28: atool 0.23.0 released.
161 Added new feature: If no file arguments are specified with apack,
162 filenames are read from standard in.
163 Added new option: -0, --null to specify that filenames read from standard
164 in are separated by null-bytes.
165 Fixed tab stop in --help message.
166 Exit with non-zero return code if any command failed.
167 Cleaned up code (add parens around subroutine calls) to prevent weird
168 bugs.
170 2002-09-17: atool 0.22.0 released.
171 Fixed use_gzip_for_z configuration option name typo (was
172 cfg_use_gzip_for_z).
173 New option use_find_cpio_print0 to make find use -print0 and cpio -0.
174 Added support for lzop archives.
176 2002-09-16: atool 0.21.0 released.
177 Use POSIX::getcwd instead of Cwd::cwd (fixes warnings with perl 5.8).
178 Fixed some bugs for Perl 5.005 compatibility (reported by Nicholas
179 Piper).
180 Use sysopen instead of three argument open to open some files.
181 Use POSIX::isprint instead of /[[:print:]]/.
182 Added --subdir (-D) option to always extract to subdirectory.
184 2002-09-08: atool 0.20.0 released.
185 Added support for cpio archives.
186 Fixed bugs with --save-outdir (wouldn't save right directory), and
187 updated manpage.
188 Fixed help message ("current directory" => "specified directory").
190 2002-07-13: atool 0.19.0 released.
191 Added PREFIX variable to Makefile (patch submitted by Dave Dribin).
192 Updated man page with supported archive formats.
193 Always run rar with the -r (recursive) option.
194 Documented how to make aunpack change into the directory where files were
195 extracted to (feature requested by Brian Hall).
197 2002-07-02: atool 0.18.0 released.
198 Added support for rpm archives (patch submitted by João Lourenço -
199 thanks!).
200 Added configuration option `show_extracted' to always show what file was
201 extracted. This is also the default behavior now.
202 Added adiff example to manpage.
203 Running atool on files with names beginning with <, >, +, | or other
204 similar characters could potentially have very bad effects on atool (such
205 as files disappearing). This is fixed now.
206 Updated the author's email address in the help and version messages.
207 Improved error messages by quoting all filenames mentioned.
208 No longer change mode on directories before removing them (now considered
209 to be unsafe by myself, despite the fact that I wrote the code originally
210 :).
211 Atool can now be used on files with newline and delete characters in
212 their names. (As a result of this, atool now uses the POSIX perl module.)
214 2002-04-14: atool 0.17.0 released.
215 Added support for extraction of arj archives.
216 Fixed symlink creation during make install (patch from Brian Hall).
217 Fixed wording ("files in root" instead of "root files").
218 Fixed adiff on compressed files (would have no effect, and would leave an
219 Unpack dir).
221 2002-02-09: atool 0.16.0 released.
222 Added new option `args_diff' to control diff arguments (previously `-ru'
223 was hardcoded in).
224 Updated wordings in the README.
225 Reformatted NEWS file. :)
226 Improved Makefile somewhat.
227 Fixed identification and some extension-related issues with LHA and RAR.
228 Added support for ace archives (extraction and listing only).
229 Mention URL for some archiver programs in the README.
231 2001-12-22: atool 0.15.0 released.
232 Fixed a minor bug that would prevent atool from extracting archives with
233 one non-writable root directory properly (reported by Matthew Mueller).
234 Added files for making RPM packages of atool.
235 Added TODO document.
237 2001-11-17: atool 0.14.0 released.
238 Added support for .lha archives (with lha command).
239 Fixed and improved the adiff command. (It will no longer ask before
240 deleting files.)
241 Changed default path for the compress command to 'compress'.
242 Improved error messages.
243 Some very minor bug fixes.
245 2001-10-26: atool 0.13.0 released.
246 New command adiff that generates a diff between two archives.
247 Documentation fixes.
249 2001-09-18: atool 0.12.0 released.
250 Improved error messages when the program to execute does not exist (no
251 more Perl warnings).
252 The author has changed email-address to oskar@osk.mine.nu.
254 2001-08-13: atool 0.11.0 released.
255 Improved error messages.
256 The --each option can now be used with the add command. (This can be used
257 to create multiple archives at a time.)
259 2001-08-01: atool 0.10.0 released.
260 New option -e, --each to extract or list multiple archives in one
261 command.
262 Fixed a bug causing gzip, bzip, bzip2 and compress'd files not to be
263 identified correctly.
264 Added sections `Examples' and `Known Bugs' to the manual page.
266 2001-07-16: atool 0.9.0 released.
267 Rethought the verbosity options. New options: -v, --verbose and -V,
268 --verbosity. Default verbosity level can now be set in configuration
269 file.
270 Changed behaviour of apack on compressed (gzip, bzip2, ..) files (didn't
271 work before).
272 Now file's -z option is used to identify more formats.
273 Included more information in the manual page (about configuration etc).
274 New option --config to load a specific configuration file.
275 The temporary extraction directory is now removed on exit, if it is
276 empty.
277 Now refuses to overwrite existing files when creating archives.
278 Minor bug fixes, error message improvements and typo corrections.
280 2001-07-05: atool 0.8.0 released.
281 Added support for configuration files. System-wide (/etc/atool.conf) and
282 user (~/.atoolrc) configuration files are supported.
283 Added support for identifying files using file(1). See the README file
284 for details.
285 Symbolic links that refers to non-existant files will no longer be
286 overwritten when extracting files (these symlinks were previously
287 considered to be non-existant themselves).
288 The NEWS file is included again.
289 Added option (use_gzip_for_z) to control whether to use gzip or
290 uncompress to decompress .Z files.
291 Some minor bug fixes.
293 2001-04-16: atool 0.7.0 released.
294 Fixed all commands for tar archives (output would be written to stdout
295 and input read from stdin by default),
296 When extracting tar.Z archives, extension wouldn't be removed from output
297 directory. This has been fixed now.
298 Manual format (with --format) wouldn't work at all. This is fixed now.
299 Added -F as an alias for --format.
300 Recognize .war as a JAR archive.
302 2001-04-04: atool 0.6.0 released.
303 Added this NEWS document.
304 Complete rewrite resulting in cleaner and better code.
305 Added support for rar archives.
306 Added support for .Z (compress) compressed files and .tar.Z archives.
307 New option "-p, --page", to send output through pager.
308 New option "-E, --explain" to have atool explain what is being done.
309 New option "-S, --simulate" to have atool simulate commands.
310 Changed "-X, --extract-here" command to "-X, --extract-to" that requires
311 a PATH argument.
312 The temporary extraction directory is now named "Unpack-XXXX", instead of
313 "atool-unpack-XXXX".
314 Added configuration options for setting path of programs to use.
315 Added configuration options for controlling name of temporary extraction
316 directory.
317 Implemented a command line generation engine so that /bin/sh is used only
318 when necessary.
319 Now uses strict.
321 2001-03-28: atool 0.5.0 released.
322 Rereleased with new version number (0.3.0 was released as 0.4.0 on
323 Freshmeat).
325 2001-03-27: atool 0.4.0 released.
326 Added forward function declarations to fix "X called to early to check
327 prototype" messages generated by Perl 5.6.
328 Added files for making Debian packages of atool.
329 Fixed help text for -X command.
330 Added prototypes for functions without them.
331 Added manpage for atool.
332 Added more license text from COPYING to the atool source and README file.
334 2001-03-24: atool 0.3.0 released.
335 Fixed "Use of uninitialized value" messages when extracting from
336 archives.
337 Added support for jar archives, and use_jar_program configuration
338 variable.
339 The "-q, --quiet" option is now listed in help message.
340 Configuration variables are now better documented in the README.
341 Some cleanup of the atool code.
342 Use exec instead of system where possible.
344 2001-03-21: atool 0.2.0 released.
345 Now creates temporary extraction directory only when necessary.
346 Display a message when list command is run on compressed files.
348 2001-03-17: atool 0.1.0 released.
349 First public release.