2 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
4 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
6 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
7 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
8 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
9 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
10 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
12 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
13 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
14 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
15 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
16 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
17 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
18 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
19 a reasonably complete test case.
20 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
22 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
23 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
24 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
25 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
26 node entries in tar archives.
27 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
28 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
29 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
32 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
33 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
35 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
36 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
37 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
38 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
40 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
41 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
43 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
44 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
45 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
46 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
47 code that actually touches the disk.
49 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
50 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
52 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
54 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
55 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
56 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
57 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
58 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
59 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
62 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
63 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
65 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
66 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
67 written to tar archives
69 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
70 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
71 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
73 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
74 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
76 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
77 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
79 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
80 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
82 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
83 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
84 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
85 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
86 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
87 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
89 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
90 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
91 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
92 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
93 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
94 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
95 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
96 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
97 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
99 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
100 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
101 portion of the ACL support for now).
102 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
103 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
104 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
105 archives was unaffected.)
107 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
108 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
109 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
111 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
112 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
113 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
115 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
116 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
117 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
118 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
119 of this long-standing bug.
121 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
122 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
124 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
125 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
126 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
128 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
129 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
130 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
131 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
132 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
134 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
135 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
136 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
137 to SUID and SGID bits.
139 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
140 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
141 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
142 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
144 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
145 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
146 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
147 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
148 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
149 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
150 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
152 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
153 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
154 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
155 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
156 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
157 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
158 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
159 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
160 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
161 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
162 for pointing out these issues.
164 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
165 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
166 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
167 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
168 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
170 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
171 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
172 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
173 that needs to change.
174 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
175 They weren't returning any errors before.
176 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
177 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
178 using archive_write_open() directly.
179 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
180 single files from large uncompressed archives.
182 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
183 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
184 extended attribute code.
185 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
186 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
190 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
191 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
192 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
193 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
194 spending much time on.
195 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
196 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
197 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
198 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
199 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
200 Pax attribute entry names.
201 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
202 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
203 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
204 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
206 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
207 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
208 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
209 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
210 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
211 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
212 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
213 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
214 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
215 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
216 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
217 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
218 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
219 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
220 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
221 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
222 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
223 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
224 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,