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1 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
3 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
5 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
7 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
9 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
11 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
13 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
15 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
16 Security & Feature release
18 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
19 Security & Feature release
21 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
23 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
25 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
26 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
28 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
30 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
32 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
33 Security release
35 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
36 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
38 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
40 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
41 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
43 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
44 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
46 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
48 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
49 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
51 Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
53 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
55 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
57 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
59 May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
61 Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
63 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
65 Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
67 Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
68 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
70 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
72 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
74 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
76 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
78 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
80 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
82 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
83 forks are stored in.
85 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
87 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
89 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
90 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
92 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
94 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
95 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
97 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
99 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
101 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
102 http://libarchive.github.com/
103 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
104 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
105 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
107 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
108 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
109 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
110 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
112 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
114 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
115 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
116 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
117 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
118 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
120 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
122 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
123 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
124 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
125 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
126 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
127 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
128 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
129 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
130 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
131 support the old interfaces as wrappers
132 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
133 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
134 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
135 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
136 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
137 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
138 translating to/from user-specified locale
139 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
140 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
141 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
142 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
143 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
144 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
145 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
146 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
147 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
148 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
149 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
150 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
151 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
152 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
153 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
154 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
155 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
156 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
157 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
158 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
159 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
160 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
161 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
162 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
163 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
164 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
165 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
166 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
167 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
168 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
169 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
170 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
171 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
173 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
174 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
175 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
177 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
178 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
179 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
180 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
182 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
184 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
185 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
186 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
187 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
188 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
189 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
191 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
193 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
194 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
195 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
197 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
198 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
200 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
201 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
202 decompression if the library is built without suitable
203 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
204 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
205 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
206 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
207 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
208 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
209 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
210 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
211 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
212 All tests now pass.
213 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
214 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
215 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
216 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
217 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
218 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
219 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
220 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
221 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
222 such system-specific knowledge.
223 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
224 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
225 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
226 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
227 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
229 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
230 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
231 people to participate in libarchive development.
233 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
234 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
235 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
236 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
237 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
238 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
239 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
241 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
242 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
243 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
244 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
245 passes and stacks read filters.
246 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
247 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
248 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
249 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
250 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
251 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
252 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
253 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
254 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
255 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
256 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
257 you want LZMA read support.
258 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
259 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
260 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
261 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
262 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
263 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
265 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
267 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
268 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
269 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
270 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
271 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
273 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
274 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
276 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
277 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
278 code contributions.
280 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
281 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
283 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
285 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
286 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
287 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
289 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
291 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
293 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
294 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
296 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
297 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
298 The libarchive project can be browsed at
299 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
300 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
302 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
303 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
304 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
305 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
306 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
307 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
308 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
309 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
310 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults:
311 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
312 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
313 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
314 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
315 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
316 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
317 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
318 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
320 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
321 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
323 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
325 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
326 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
327 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
328 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
329 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
330 all known hardlink strategies.
331 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
332 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
333 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
334 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
335 files as they are needed.
337 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
338 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
339 with the UTF-8 fixes.
341 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
342 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
343 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
344 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
345 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
346 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
347 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
348 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
349 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
350 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
352 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
353 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
354 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
355 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
356 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
357 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
358 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
359 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
360 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
361 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
362 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
364 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
365 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
367 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
368 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
369 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
371 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
372 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
373 pattern selection for -i and -it.
375 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
376 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
377 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
379 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
381 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
382 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
383 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
385 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
386 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
388 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
389 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
390 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
392 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
393 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
394 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
395 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
396 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
397 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
399 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
401 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
402 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
403 man pages.
405 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
406 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
407 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
408 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
409 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
410 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
412 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
413 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
414 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
415 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
416 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
417 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
418 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
419 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
420 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
421 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
422 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
423 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
425 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
426 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
427 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
428 bsdtar.1 manpages.
429 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
430 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
431 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
433 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
434 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
435 actually do the right things.
436 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
437 for non-regular files.
438 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
439 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
440 that bsdtar has.
442 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
443 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
444 fix was implemented incorrectly.
446 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
447 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
448 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
449 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
450 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
451 instances of this same function.
452 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
454 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
455 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
457 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
458 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
459 (A little experimental still.)
460 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
461 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
462 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
463 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
464 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
466 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
467 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
468 Sonnenberger.
469 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
471 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
473 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
474 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
475 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
476 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
478 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
479 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
480 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
481 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
482 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
484 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
485 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
486 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
487 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
488 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
489 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
490 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
491 a reasonably complete test case.
492 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
494 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
495 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
496 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
497 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
498 node entries in tar archives.
499 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
500 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
501 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
502 dissimilar systems.
504 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
505 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
507 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
508 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
509 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
510 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
512 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
513 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
515 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
516 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
517 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
518 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
519 code that actually touches the disk.
521 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
522 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
524 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
526 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
527 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
528 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
529 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
530 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
531 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
532 appreciated.
534 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
535 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
537 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
538 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
539 written to tar archives
541 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
542 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
543 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
545 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
546 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
548 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
549 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
551 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
552 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
554 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
555 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
556 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
557 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
558 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
559 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
561 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
562 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
563 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
564 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
565 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
566 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
567 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
568 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
569 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
571 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
572 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
573 portion of the ACL support for now).
574 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
575 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
576 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
577 archives was unaffected.)
579 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
580 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
581 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
583 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
584 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
585 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
587 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
588 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
589 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
590 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
591 of this long-standing bug.
593 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
594 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
596 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
597 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
598 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
600 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
601 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
602 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
603 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
604 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
606 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
607 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
608 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
609 to SUID and SGID bits.
611 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
612 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
613 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
614 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
616 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
617 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
618 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
619 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
620 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
621 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
622 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
624 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
625 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
626 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
627 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
628 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
629 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
630 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
631 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
632 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
633 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
634 for pointing out these issues.
636 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
637 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
638 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
639 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
640 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
642 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
643 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
644 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
645 that needs to change.
646 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
647 They weren't returning any errors before.
648 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
649 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
650 using archive_write_open() directly.
651 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
652 single files from large uncompressed archives.
654 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
655 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
656 extended attribute code.
657 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
658 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
660 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
662 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
663 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
664 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
665 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
666 spending much time on.
667 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
668 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
669 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
670 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
671 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
672 Pax attribute entry names.
673 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
674 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
675 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
676 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
677 minor bugfixes.
678 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
679 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
680 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
681 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
682 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
683 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
684 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
685 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
686 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
687 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
688 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
689 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
690 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
691 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
692 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
693 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
694 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
695 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
696 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
697 and pdtar archives.