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