2 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
3 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
4 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
5 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
6 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
8 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
9 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
10 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
11 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
12 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
13 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
14 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
15 a reasonably complete test case.
16 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
18 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
19 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
20 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
21 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
22 node entries in tar archives.
23 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
24 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
25 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
28 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
29 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
31 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
32 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
33 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
34 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
36 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
37 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
39 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
40 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
41 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
42 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
43 code that actually touches the disk.
45 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
46 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
48 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
50 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
51 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
52 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
53 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
54 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
55 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
58 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
59 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
61 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
62 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
63 written to tar archives
65 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
66 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
67 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
69 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
70 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
72 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
73 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
75 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
76 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
78 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
79 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
80 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
81 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
82 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
83 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
85 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
86 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
87 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
88 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
89 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
90 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
91 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
92 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
93 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
95 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
96 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
97 portion of the ACL support for now).
98 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
99 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
100 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
101 archives was unaffected.)
103 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
104 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
105 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
107 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
108 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
109 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
111 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
112 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
113 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
114 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
115 of this long-standing bug.
117 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
118 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
120 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
121 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
122 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
124 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
125 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
126 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
127 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
128 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
130 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
131 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
132 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
133 to SUID and SGID bits.
135 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
136 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
137 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
138 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
140 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
141 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
142 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
143 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
144 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
145 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
146 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
148 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
149 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
150 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
151 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
152 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
153 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
154 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
155 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
156 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
157 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
158 for pointing out these issues.
160 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
161 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
162 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
163 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
164 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
166 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
167 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
168 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
169 that needs to change.
170 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
171 They weren't returning any errors before.
172 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
173 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
174 using archive_write_open() directly.
175 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
176 single files from large uncompressed archives.
178 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
179 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
180 extended attribute code.
181 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
182 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
186 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
187 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
188 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
189 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
190 spending much time on.
191 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
192 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
193 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
194 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
195 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
196 Pax attribute entry names.
197 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
198 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
199 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
200 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
202 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
203 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
204 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
205 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
206 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
207 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
208 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
209 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
210 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
211 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
212 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
213 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
214 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
215 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
216 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
217 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
218 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
219 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
220 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,