2 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
4 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
5 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
6 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
8 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
9 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
11 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
12 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
13 decompression if the library is built without suitable
14 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
15 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
16 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
17 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
18 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
19 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
20 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
21 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
22 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
24 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
25 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
26 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
27 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
28 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
29 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
30 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
31 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
32 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
33 such system-specific knowledge.
34 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
35 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
36 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
37 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
38 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
40 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
41 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
42 people to participate in libarchive development.
44 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
45 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
46 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
47 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
48 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
49 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
50 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
52 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
53 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
54 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
55 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
56 passes and stacks read filters.
57 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
58 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
59 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
60 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
61 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
62 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
63 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
64 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
65 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
66 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
67 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
68 you want LZMA read support.
69 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
70 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
71 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
72 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
73 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
74 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
76 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
78 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
79 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
80 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
81 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
82 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
84 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
85 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
87 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
88 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
91 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
92 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
94 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
96 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
97 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
98 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
100 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
102 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
104 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
105 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
107 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
108 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
109 The libarchive project can be browsed at
110 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
111 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
113 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
114 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
115 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
116 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
117 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
118 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
119 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
120 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
121 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults:
122 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
123 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
124 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
125 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
126 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
127 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
128 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
129 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
131 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
132 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
134 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
136 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
137 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
138 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
139 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
140 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
141 all known hardlink strategies.
142 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
143 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
144 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
145 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
146 files as they are needed.
148 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
149 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
150 with the UTF-8 fixes.
152 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
153 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
154 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
155 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
156 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
157 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
158 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
159 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
160 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
161 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
163 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
164 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
165 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
166 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
167 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
168 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
169 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
170 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
171 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
172 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
173 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
175 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
176 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
178 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
179 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
180 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
182 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
183 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
184 pattern selection for -i and -it.
186 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
187 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
188 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
190 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
192 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
193 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
194 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
196 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
197 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
199 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
200 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
201 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
203 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
204 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
205 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
206 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
207 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
208 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
210 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
212 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
213 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
216 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
217 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
218 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
219 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
220 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
221 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
223 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
224 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
225 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
226 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
227 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
228 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
229 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
230 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
231 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
232 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
233 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
234 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
236 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
237 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
238 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
240 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
241 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
242 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
244 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
245 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
246 actually do the right things.
247 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
248 for non-regular files.
249 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
250 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
253 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
254 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
255 fix was implemented incorrectly.
257 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
258 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
259 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
260 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
261 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
262 instances of this same function.
263 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
265 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
266 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
268 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
269 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
270 (A little experimental still.)
271 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
272 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
273 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
274 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
275 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
277 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
278 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
280 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
282 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
284 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
285 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
286 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
287 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
289 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
290 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
291 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
292 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
293 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
295 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
296 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
297 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
298 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
299 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
300 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
301 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
302 a reasonably complete test case.
303 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
305 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
306 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
307 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
308 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
309 node entries in tar archives.
310 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
311 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
312 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
315 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
316 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
318 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
319 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
320 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
321 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
323 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
324 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
326 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
327 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
328 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
329 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
330 code that actually touches the disk.
332 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
333 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
335 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
337 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
338 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
339 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
340 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
341 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
342 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
345 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
346 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
348 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
349 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
350 written to tar archives
352 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
353 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
354 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
356 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
357 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
359 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
360 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
362 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
363 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
365 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
366 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
367 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
368 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
369 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
370 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
372 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
373 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
374 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
375 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
376 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
377 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
378 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
379 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
380 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
382 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
383 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
384 portion of the ACL support for now).
385 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
386 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
387 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
388 archives was unaffected.)
390 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
391 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
392 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
394 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
395 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
396 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
398 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
399 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
400 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
401 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
402 of this long-standing bug.
404 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
405 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
407 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
408 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
409 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
411 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
412 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
413 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
414 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
415 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
417 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
418 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
419 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
420 to SUID and SGID bits.
422 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
423 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
424 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
425 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
427 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
428 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
429 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
430 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
431 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
432 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
433 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
435 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
436 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
437 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
438 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
439 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
440 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
441 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
442 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
443 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
444 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
445 for pointing out these issues.
447 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
448 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
449 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
450 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
451 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
453 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
454 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
455 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
456 that needs to change.
457 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
458 They weren't returning any errors before.
459 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
460 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
461 using archive_write_open() directly.
462 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
463 single files from large uncompressed archives.
465 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
466 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
467 extended attribute code.
468 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
469 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
473 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
474 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
475 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
476 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
477 spending much time on.
478 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
479 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
480 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
481 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
482 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
483 Pax attribute entry names.
484 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
485 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
486 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
487 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
489 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
490 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
491 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
492 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
493 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
494 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
495 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
496 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
497 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
498 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
499 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
500 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
501 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
502 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
503 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
504 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
505 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
506 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
507 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,