NEWS revision 1.1.1.6.10.1 1 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Oct 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.7 released
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3 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Sep 23, 2024: libarchive 3.7.6 released
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5 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Sep 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.5 released
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7 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Apr 26, 2024: libarchive 3.7.4 released
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9 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Apr 08, 2024: libarchive 3.7.3 released
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11 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Sep 12, 2023: libarchive 3.7.2 released
12 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
13 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Jul 29, 2023: libarchive 3.7.1 released
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15 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Jul 18, 2023: libarchive 3.7.0 released
16 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
17 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Jul 14, 2023: bsdunzip port from FreeBSD
18 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
19 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Dec 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released
20 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
21 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released
22 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
23 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released
24 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
25 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released
26 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
27 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
28 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
29 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
30 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
31 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
32 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
33 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
34 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
35 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
36 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
37 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
38 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
39 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
40 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
41 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
42 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
43 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
44 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
45 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
46 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
47 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
48 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
49 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
50 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
51 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
52 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
53 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
54 1.1.1.6.10.1 martin
55 1.1.1.6 joerg Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
56 1.1.1.6 joerg
57 1.1.1.6 joerg May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
58 1.1.1.6 joerg
59 1.1.1.6 joerg Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
60 1.1.1.6 joerg
61 1.1.1.6 joerg Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
62 1.1.1.6 joerg
63 1.1.1.6 joerg Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
64 1.1.1.6 joerg
65 1.1.1.6 joerg Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
66 1.1.1.6 joerg
67 1.1.1.6 joerg Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
68 1.1.1.6 joerg
69 1.1.1.6 joerg Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
70 1.1.1.6 joerg
71 1.1.1.6 joerg Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
72 1.1.1.6 joerg
73 1.1.1.6 joerg Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
74 1.1.1.6 joerg
75 1.1.1.6 joerg Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
76 1.1.1.6 joerg
77 1.1.1.6 joerg Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
78 1.1.1.6 joerg
79 1.1.1.6 joerg Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
80 1.1.1.6 joerg
81 1.1.1.6 joerg Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
82 1.1.1.6 joerg
83 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
84 1.1.1.4 joerg
85 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
86 1.1.1.5 joerg Security & Feature release
87 1.1.1.4 joerg
88 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
89 1.1.1.5 joerg Security & Feature release
90 1.1.1.5 joerg
91 1.1.1.5 joerg Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
92 1.1.1.5 joerg
93 1.1.1.5 joerg Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
94 1.1.1.5 joerg
95 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
96 1.1.1.5 joerg Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
97 1.1.1.5 joerg
98 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
99 1.1.1.5 joerg
100 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
101 1.1.1.5 joerg
102 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
103 1.1.1.5 joerg Security release
104 1.1.1.5 joerg
105 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
106 1.1.1.5 joerg This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
107 1.1.1.5 joerg
108 1.1.1.5 joerg May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
109 1.1.1.5 joerg
110 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
111 1.1.1.5 joerg Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
112 1.1.1.5 joerg
113 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
114 1.1.1.5 joerg This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
115 1.1.1.5 joerg
116 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
117 1.1.1.5 joerg
118 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
119 1.1.1.5 joerg https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
120 1.1.1.5 joerg
121 1.1.1.5 joerg Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
122 1.1.1.5 joerg
123 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
124 1.1.1.5 joerg
125 1.1.1.5 joerg Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
126 1.1.1.5 joerg
127 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
128 1.1.1.5 joerg
129 1.1.1.5 joerg May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
130 1.1.1.5 joerg
131 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
132 1.1.1.5 joerg
133 1.1.1.5 joerg Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
134 1.1.1.3 joerg
135 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
136 1.1.1.5 joerg
137 1.1.1.5 joerg Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
138 1.1.1.5 joerg (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
139 1.1.1.5 joerg
140 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
141 1.1.1.5 joerg
142 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
143 1.1.1.5 joerg
144 1.1.1.5 joerg Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
145 1.1.1.5 joerg
146 1.1.1.5 joerg Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
147 1.1.1.5 joerg
148 1.1.1.5 joerg Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
149 1.1.1.5 joerg
150 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
151 1.1.1.5 joerg
152 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
153 1.1.1.5 joerg forks are stored in.
154 1.1.1.5 joerg
155 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
156 1.1.1.5 joerg
157 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
158 1.1.1.5 joerg
159 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
160 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
161 1.1.1.5 joerg
162 1.1.1.5 joerg Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
163 1.1.1.5 joerg
164 1.1.1.5 joerg Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
165 1.1.1.5 joerg (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
166 1.1.1.5 joerg
167 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
168 1.1.1.5 joerg
169 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
170 1.1.1.5 joerg
171 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
172 1.1.1.5 joerg http://libarchive.github.com/
173 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
174 1.1.1.5 joerg http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
175 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
176 1.1.1.5 joerg
177 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
178 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
179 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
180 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
181 1.1.1.5 joerg
182 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
183 1.1.1.5 joerg
184 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
185 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
186 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
187 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
188 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
189 1.1.1.5 joerg
190 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
191 1.1.1.5 joerg
192 1.1.1.5 joerg Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
193 1.1.1.5 joerg Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
194 1.1.1.5 joerg Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
195 1.1.1.5 joerg Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
196 1.1.1.5 joerg will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
197 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
198 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
199 1.1.1.5 joerg handling of pax UTF-8 headers
200 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
201 1.1.1.5 joerg support the old interfaces as wrappers
202 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
203 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
204 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
205 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
206 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
207 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
208 1.1.1.5 joerg translating to/from user-specified locale
209 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
210 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
211 1.1.1.5 joerg assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
212 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
213 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
214 1.1.1.5 joerg Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
215 1.1.1.5 joerg Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
216 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
217 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
218 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
219 1.1.1.5 joerg Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
220 1.1.1.5 joerg May 28, 2010: XAR writer
221 1.1.1.5 joerg May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
222 1.1.1.5 joerg May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
223 1.1.1.5 joerg May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
224 1.1.1.5 joerg May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
225 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
226 1.1.1.5 joerg Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
227 1.1.1.5 joerg Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
228 1.1.1.3 joerg Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
229 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
230 1.1.1.5 joerg results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
231 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
232 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
233 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
234 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
235 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
236 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
237 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
238 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
239 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
240 1.1.1.5 joerg Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
241 1.1.1.5 joerg Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
242 1.1.1.3 joerg
243 1.1.1.2 joerg Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
244 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
245 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
246 1.1.1.2 joerg
247 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
248 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
249 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
250 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
251 1.1.1.2 joerg
252 1.1.1.2 joerg Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
253 1.1.1.2 joerg
254 1.1.1.2 joerg Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
255 1.1.1.2 joerg Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
256 1.1.1.2 joerg Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
257 1.1.1.2 joerg Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
258 1.1.1.2 joerg May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
259 1.1.1.2 joerg May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
260 1.1.1.2 joerg
261 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
262 1.1.1.2 joerg
263 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
264 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
265 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
266 1.1.1.2 joerg
267 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
268 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
269 1.1.1.2 joerg
270 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
271 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
272 1.1.1.2 joerg decompression if the library is built without suitable
273 1.1.1.2 joerg libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
274 1.1.1.2 joerg in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
275 1.1.1.2 joerg Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
276 1.1.1.2 joerg Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
277 1.1.1.2 joerg more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
278 1.1.1.2 joerg Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
279 1.1.1.2 joerg Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
280 1.1.1.2 joerg Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
281 1.1.1.2 joerg Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
282 1.1.1.2 joerg All tests now pass.
283 1.1.1.2 joerg Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
284 1.1.1.2 joerg Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
285 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
286 1.1.1.2 joerg Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
287 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
288 1.1.1.2 joerg Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bjrn Jacke.
289 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
290 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
291 1.1.1.2 joerg extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
292 1.1.1.2 joerg such system-specific knowledge.
293 1.1.1.2 joerg Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
294 1.1.1.2 joerg read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
295 1.1.1.2 joerg filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
296 1.1.1.2 joerg Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
297 1.1.1.2 joerg Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
298 1.1.1.2 joerg
299 1.1.1.2 joerg Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
300 1.1.1.2 joerg server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
301 1.1.1.2 joerg people to participate in libarchive development.
302 1.1.1.2 joerg
303 1.1.1.2 joerg Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
304 1.1.1.2 joerg Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
305 1.1.1.2 joerg Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
306 1.1.1.2 joerg Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
307 1.1.1.2 joerg Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
308 1.1.1.2 joerg Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
309 1.1.1.2 joerg Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
310 1.1.1.2 joerg
311 1.1.1.2 joerg Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
312 1.1.1.2 joerg consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
313 1.1.1.2 joerg from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
314 1.1.1.2 joerg read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
315 1.1.1.2 joerg passes and stacks read filters.
316 1.1.1.2 joerg Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
317 1.1.1.2 joerg Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
318 1.1.1.2 joerg Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
319 1.1.1.2 joerg gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
320 1.1.1.2 joerg Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
321 1.1.1.2 joerg Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
322 1.1.1.2 joerg Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
323 1.1.1.2 joerg some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
324 1.1.1.2 joerg doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
325 1.1.1.2 joerg enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
326 1.1.1.2 joerg now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
327 1.1.1.2 joerg you want LZMA read support.
328 1.1.1.2 joerg Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
329 1.1.1.2 joerg Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
330 1.1.1.2 joerg This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
331 1.1.1.2 joerg time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
332 1.1.1.2 joerg Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
333 1.1.1.2 joerg Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
334 1.1 joerg
335 1.1 joerg Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
336 1.1 joerg
337 1.1 joerg Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
338 1.1 joerg Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
339 1.1 joerg Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
340 1.1 joerg Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
341 1.1 joerg Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
342 1.1 joerg
343 1.1 joerg May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
344 1.1 joerg May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
345 1.1 joerg
346 1.1 joerg May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
347 1.1 joerg for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
348 1.1 joerg code contributions.
349 1.1 joerg
350 1.1 joerg May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
351 1.1 joerg thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
352 1.1 joerg
353 1.1 joerg May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
354 1.1 joerg
355 1.1 joerg May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
356 1.1 joerg This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
357 1.1 joerg Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
358 1.1 joerg
359 1.1 joerg May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
360 1.1 joerg
361 1.1 joerg May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
362 1.1 joerg
363 1.1 joerg May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
364 1.1 joerg hardlinks have different permissions from original file
365 1.1 joerg
366 1.1 joerg April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
367 1.1 joerg project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
368 1.1 joerg The libarchive project can be browsed at
369 1.1 joerg //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
370 1.1 joerg Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
371 1.1 joerg
372 1.1 joerg May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
373 1.1 joerg * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
374 1.1 joerg * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
375 1.1 joerg * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
376 1.1 joerg measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
377 1.1 joerg * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
378 1.1 joerg distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
379 1.1 joerg * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
380 1.1.1.5 joerg * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults:
381 1.1 joerg run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
382 1.1 joerg * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
383 1.1 joerg * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
384 1.1 joerg * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
385 1.1 joerg this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
386 1.1 joerg * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
387 1.1 joerg * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
388 1.1 joerg * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
389 1.1 joerg
390 1.1 joerg May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
391 1.1 joerg This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
392 1.1 joerg
393 1.1 joerg Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
394 1.1 joerg
395 1.1 joerg Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
396 1.1 joerg Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
397 1.1 joerg ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
398 1.1 joerg bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
399 1.1 joerg Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
400 1.1 joerg all known hardlink strategies.
401 1.1 joerg Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
402 1.1 joerg Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
403 1.1 joerg Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
404 1.1 joerg now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
405 1.1 joerg files as they are needed.
406 1.1 joerg
407 1.1 joerg Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
408 1.1 joerg a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
409 1.1 joerg with the UTF-8 fixes.
410 1.1 joerg
411 1.1 joerg Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
412 1.1 joerg Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
413 1.1 joerg to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
414 1.1 joerg Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
415 1.1 joerg Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
416 1.1 joerg Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
417 1.1 joerg Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
418 1.1 joerg bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
419 1.1 joerg Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
420 1.1 joerg Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
421 1.1 joerg
422 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
423 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
424 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
425 1.1 joerg bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
426 1.1 joerg of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
427 1.1 joerg issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
428 1.1 joerg several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
429 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
430 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
431 1.1 joerg hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
432 1.1 joerg only with the last occurrence of a link.)
433 1.1 joerg
434 1.1 joerg Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
435 1.1 joerg Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
436 1.1 joerg
437 1.1 joerg Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
438 1.1 joerg Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
439 1.1 joerg Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
440 1.1 joerg
441 1.1 joerg Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
442 1.1 joerg Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
443 1.1 joerg pattern selection for -i and -it.
444 1.1 joerg
445 1.1 joerg Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
446 1.1 joerg Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
447 1.1 joerg Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
448 1.1 joerg
449 1.1 joerg Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
450 1.1 joerg
451 1.1 joerg Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
452 1.1 joerg Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
453 1.1 joerg Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
454 1.1 joerg
455 1.1 joerg Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
456 1.1 joerg Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
457 1.1 joerg
458 1.1 joerg Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
459 1.1 joerg Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
460 1.1 joerg thanks to Samuli Suominen.
461 1.1 joerg
462 1.1 joerg Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
463 1.1 joerg Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
464 1.1 joerg libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
465 1.1 joerg "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
466 1.1 joerg Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
467 1.1 joerg Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
468 1.1 joerg
469 1.1 joerg Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
470 1.1 joerg
471 1.1 joerg Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
472 1.1 joerg Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
473 1.1 joerg man pages.
474 1.1 joerg
475 1.1 joerg Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
476 1.1 joerg Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
477 1.1 joerg Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
478 1.1 joerg archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
479 1.1 joerg Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
480 1.1 joerg libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
481 1.1 joerg
482 1.1 joerg Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
483 1.1 joerg Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
484 1.1 joerg "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
485 1.1 joerg by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
486 1.1 joerg publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
487 1.1 joerg mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
488 1.1 joerg Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
489 1.1 joerg a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
490 1.1 joerg Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
491 1.1 joerg broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
492 1.1 joerg Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
493 1.1 joerg hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
494 1.1 joerg
495 1.1 joerg Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
496 1.1 joerg Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
497 1.1 joerg Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
498 1.1 joerg bsdtar.1 manpages.
499 1.1 joerg Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
500 1.1 joerg to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
501 1.1 joerg bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
502 1.1 joerg
503 1.1 joerg Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
504 1.1 joerg Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
505 1.1 joerg actually do the right things.
506 1.1 joerg Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
507 1.1 joerg for non-regular files.
508 1.1 joerg Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
509 1.1 joerg This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
510 1.1 joerg that bsdtar has.
511 1.1 joerg
512 1.1 joerg Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
513 1.1 joerg Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
514 1.1 joerg fix was implemented incorrectly.
515 1.1 joerg
516 1.1 joerg Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
517 1.1 joerg Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
518 1.1 joerg block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
519 1.1 joerg Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
520 1.1 joerg with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
521 1.1 joerg instances of this same function.
522 1.1 joerg Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
523 1.1 joerg
524 1.1 joerg Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
525 1.1 joerg Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
526 1.1 joerg
527 1.1 joerg Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
528 1.1 joerg Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
529 1.1 joerg (A little experimental still.)
530 1.1 joerg Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
531 1.1 joerg Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
532 1.1 joerg an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
533 1.1 joerg perm restore but don't request owner restore.
534 1.1 joerg Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
535 1.1 joerg
536 1.1 joerg Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
537 1.1 joerg Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
538 1.1 joerg Sonnenberger.
539 1.1 joerg Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
540 1.1 joerg
541 1.1 joerg Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
542 1.1 joerg
543 1.1 joerg Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
544 1.1 joerg Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
545 1.1 joerg fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
546 1.1 joerg http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
547 1.1 joerg
548 1.1 joerg May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
549 1.1 joerg May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
550 1.1 joerg missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
551 1.1 joerg from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
552 1.1 joerg EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
553 1.1 joerg
554 1.1 joerg May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
555 1.1 joerg May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
556 1.1 joerg entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
557 1.1 joerg still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
558 1.1 joerg worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
559 1.1 joerg direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
560 1.1 joerg required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
561 1.1 joerg a reasonably complete test case.
562 1.1 joerg May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
563 1.1 joerg
564 1.1 joerg May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
565 1.1 joerg May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
566 1.1 joerg problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
567 1.1 joerg May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
568 1.1 joerg node entries in tar archives.
569 1.1 joerg May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
570 1.1 joerg This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
571 1.1 joerg of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
572 1.1 joerg dissimilar systems.
573 1.1 joerg
574 1.1 joerg Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
575 1.1 joerg Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
576 1.1 joerg
577 1.1 joerg Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
578 1.1 joerg Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
579 1.1 joerg (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
580 1.1 joerg Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
581 1.1 joerg
582 1.1 joerg Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
583 1.1 joerg Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
584 1.1 joerg
585 1.1 joerg Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
586 1.1 joerg Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
587 1.1 joerg format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
588 1.1 joerg 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
589 1.1 joerg code that actually touches the disk.
590 1.1 joerg
591 1.1 joerg Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
592 1.1 joerg Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
593 1.1 joerg
594 1.1 joerg Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
595 1.1 joerg
596 1.1 joerg Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
597 1.1 joerg Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
598 1.1 joerg Not complete, but should prove helpful.
599 1.1 joerg Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
600 1.1 joerg for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
601 1.1 joerg well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
602 1.1 joerg appreciated.
603 1.1 joerg
604 1.1 joerg Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
605 1.1 joerg Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
606 1.1 joerg
607 1.1 joerg Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
608 1.1 joerg Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
609 1.1 joerg written to tar archives
610 1.1 joerg
611 1.1 joerg Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
612 1.1 joerg Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
613 1.1 joerg Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
614 1.1 joerg
615 1.1 joerg Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
616 1.1 joerg Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
617 1.1 joerg
618 1.1 joerg Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
619 1.1 joerg Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
620 1.1 joerg
621 1.1 joerg Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
622 1.1 joerg Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
623 1.1 joerg
624 1.1 joerg Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
625 1.1 joerg Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
626 1.1 joerg that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
627 1.1 joerg The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
628 1.1 joerg with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
629 1.1 joerg Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
630 1.1 joerg
631 1.1 joerg Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
632 1.1 joerg Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
633 1.1 joerg some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
634 1.1 joerg If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
635 1.1 joerg Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
636 1.1 joerg to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
637 1.1 joerg Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
638 1.1 joerg a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
639 1.1 joerg Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
640 1.1 joerg
641 1.1 joerg Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
642 1.1 joerg Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
643 1.1 joerg portion of the ACL support for now).
644 1.1 joerg Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
645 1.1 joerg turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
646 1.1 joerg libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
647 1.1 joerg archives was unaffected.)
648 1.1 joerg
649 1.1 joerg Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
650 1.1 joerg Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
651 1.1 joerg Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
652 1.1 joerg
653 1.1 joerg Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
654 1.1 joerg Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
655 1.1 joerg whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
656 1.1 joerg
657 1.1 joerg Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
658 1.1 joerg Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
659 1.1.1.2 joerg Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten for telling me about the
660 1.1 joerg broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
661 1.1 joerg of this long-standing bug.
662 1.1 joerg
663 1.1 joerg Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
664 1.1 joerg Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
665 1.1 joerg
666 1.1 joerg Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
667 1.1 joerg Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
668 1.1 joerg without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
669 1.1 joerg
670 1.1 joerg Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
671 1.1 joerg Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
672 1.1 joerg and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
673 1.1 joerg but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
674 1.1 joerg other tools and where they can be better optimized.
675 1.1 joerg
676 1.1 joerg Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
677 1.1 joerg Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
678 1.1 joerg of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
679 1.1 joerg to SUID and SGID bits.
680 1.1 joerg
681 1.1 joerg Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
682 1.1 joerg Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
683 1.1 joerg distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
684 1.1 joerg "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
685 1.1 joerg
686 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
687 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
688 1.1 joerg a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
689 1.1 joerg you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
690 1.1 joerg around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
691 1.1 joerg want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
692 1.1 joerg (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
693 1.1 joerg
694 1.1 joerg Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
695 1.1 joerg Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
696 1.1 joerg most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
697 1.1 joerg Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
698 1.1 joerg cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
699 1.1 joerg the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
700 1.1 joerg Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
701 1.1 joerg corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
702 1.1 joerg Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
703 1.1 joerg very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
704 1.1 joerg for pointing out these issues.
705 1.1 joerg
706 1.1 joerg Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
707 1.1 joerg Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
708 1.1 joerg Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
709 1.1 joerg Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
710 1.1 joerg it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
711 1.1 joerg
712 1.1 joerg Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
713 1.1 joerg Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
714 1.1 joerg are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
715 1.1 joerg that needs to change.
716 1.1 joerg Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
717 1.1 joerg They weren't returning any errors before.
718 1.1 joerg Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
719 1.1 joerg Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
720 1.1 joerg using archive_write_open() directly.
721 1.1 joerg Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
722 1.1 joerg single files from large uncompressed archives.
723 1.1 joerg
724 1.1 joerg Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
725 1.1 joerg Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
726 1.1 joerg extended attribute code.
727 1.1 joerg Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
728 1.1 joerg files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
729 1.1 joerg
730 1.1 joerg OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
731 1.1 joerg
732 1.1 joerg Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
733 1.1 joerg Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
734 1.1 joerg of the storage format to simplify debugging.
735 1.1 joerg Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
736 1.1 joerg spending much time on.
737 1.1 joerg Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
738 1.1 joerg for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
739 1.1 joerg Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
740 1.1 joerg file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
741 1.1 joerg Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
742 1.1 joerg Pax attribute entry names.
743 1.1 joerg Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
744 1.1 joerg appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
745 1.1 joerg yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
746 1.1 joerg Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
747 1.1 joerg minor bugfixes.
748 1.1 joerg Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
749 1.1 joerg Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
750 1.1 joerg Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
751 1.1 joerg http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
752 1.1 joerg Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
753 1.1 joerg fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
754 1.1 joerg Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
755 1.1 joerg pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
756 1.1 joerg Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
757 1.1 joerg http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
758 1.1 joerg including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
759 1.1 joerg http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
760 1.1 joerg libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
761 1.1 joerg Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
762 1.1 joerg new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
763 1.1 joerg Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
764 1.1 joerg May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
765 1.1 joerg all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
766 1.1 joerg May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
767 1.1 joerg and pdtar archives.
768