NEWS revision 1.1.1.10
1 Apr 13, 2026: libarchive 3.8.7 released 2 3 Mar 10, 2026: libarchive 3.8.6 released 4 5 Jan 05, 2026: libarchive 3.8.5 released 6 7 Dec 01, 2025: libarchive 3.8.4 released 8 9 Nov 17, 2025: libarchive 3.8.3 released 10 11 Oct 15, 2025: libarchive 3.8.2 released 12 13 Jun 01, 2025: libarchive 3.8.1 released 14 15 May 20, 2025: libarchive 3.8.0 released 16 17 Mar 30, 2025: libarchive 3.7.9 released 18 19 Mar 20, 2025: libarchive 3.7.8 released 20 21 Oct 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.7 released 22 23 Sep 23, 2024: libarchive 3.7.6 released 24 25 Sep 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.5 released 26 27 Apr 26, 2024: libarchive 3.7.4 released 28 29 Apr 08, 2024: libarchive 3.7.3 released 30 31 Sep 12, 2023: libarchive 3.7.2 released 32 33 Jul 29, 2023: libarchive 3.7.1 released 34 35 Jul 18, 2023: libarchive 3.7.0 released 36 37 Jul 14, 2023: bsdunzip port from FreeBSD 38 39 Dec 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released 40 41 Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released 42 43 Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released 44 45 Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released 46 47 Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released 48 49 Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released 50 51 Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released 52 53 Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes 54 55 May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released 56 57 Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files 58 59 Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute 60 61 Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released 62 63 Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives 64 65 Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction) 66 67 Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider 68 69 Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released 70 71 Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr" 72 73 Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives 74 75 Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released 76 77 May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives 78 79 Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract 80 81 Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs 82 83 Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows 84 85 Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags 86 87 Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files 88 89 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader 90 91 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released 92 93 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files 94 95 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio 96 97 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes 98 99 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters 100 101 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released 102 103 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl) 104 105 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released 106 Security & Feature release 107 108 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released 109 Security & Feature release 110 111 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin) 112 113 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates 114 115 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax 116 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w() 117 118 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project 119 120 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support 121 122 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released 123 Security release 124 125 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released 126 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0 127 128 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released 129 130 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released 131 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 132 133 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released 134 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 135 136 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF 137 138 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. 139 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues 140 141 Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck 142 143 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support 144 145 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. 146 147 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support 148 149 May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension 150 151 Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool 152 153 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support 154 155 Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic 156 157 Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats 158 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) 159 160 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added 161 162 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 163 164 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 165 166 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 167 168 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 169 170 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 171 172 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 173 forks are stored in. 174 175 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 176 177 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 178 179 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 180 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 181 182 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 183 184 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 185 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 186 187 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 188 189 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 190 191 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 192 http://libarchive.github.com/ 193 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 194 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 195 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 196 197 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 198 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 199 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 200 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 201 202 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 203 204 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 205 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 206 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 207 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 208 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 209 210 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 211 212 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 213 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 214 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 215 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 216 will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 217 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader 218 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 219 handling of pax UTF-8 headers 220 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 221 support the old interfaces as wrappers 222 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 223 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 224 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 225 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 226 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 227 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 228 translating to/from user-specified locale 229 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 230 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 231 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 232 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 233 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader 234 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 235 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 236 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 237 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 238 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 239 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 240 May 28, 2010: XAR writer 241 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 242 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 243 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 244 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 245 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 246 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 247 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 248 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 249 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 250 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 251 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer 252 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 253 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 254 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 255 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 256 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 257 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 258 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 259 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 260 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 261 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 262 263 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 264 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 265 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 266 267 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 268 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 269 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 270 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 271 272 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 273 274 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 275 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 276 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 277 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 278 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 279 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 280 281 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 282 283 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 284 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 285 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 286 287 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 288 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 289 290 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 291 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 292 decompression if the library is built without suitable 293 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 294 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 295 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 296 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 297 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 298 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 299 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 300 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 301 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 302 All tests now pass. 303 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 304 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 305 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 306 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 307 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 308 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bjrn Jacke. 309 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 310 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 311 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 312 such system-specific knowledge. 313 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 314 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 315 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 316 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 317 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 318 319 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 320 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 321 people to participate in libarchive development. 322 323 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 324 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 325 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 326 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 327 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 328 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 329 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 330 331 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 332 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 333 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 334 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 335 passes and stacks read filters. 336 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 337 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 338 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 339 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 340 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 341 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 342 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 343 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 344 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 345 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 346 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 347 you want LZMA read support. 348 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 349 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 350 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 351 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 352 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 353 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 354 355 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 356 357 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 358 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 359 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 360 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 361 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 362 363 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 364 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 365 366 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 367 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 368 code contributions. 369 370 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 371 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 372 373 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 374 375 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 376 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 377 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 378 379 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 380 381 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 382 383 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 384 hardlinks have different permissions from original file 385 386 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 387 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 388 The libarchive project can be browsed at 389 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 390 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 391 392 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 393 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 394 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 395 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 396 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 397 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 398 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 399 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 400 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults: 401 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 402 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 403 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 404 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 405 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 406 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 407 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 408 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 409 410 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 411 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 412 413 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 414 415 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 416 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 417 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 418 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 419 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 420 all known hardlink strategies. 421 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 422 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 423 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 424 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 425 files as they are needed. 426 427 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 428 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 429 with the UTF-8 fixes. 430 431 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 432 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 433 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 434 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 435 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 436 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 437 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 438 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 439 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 440 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 441 442 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 443 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 444 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 445 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 446 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 447 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 448 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 449 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 450 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 451 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 452 only with the last occurrence of a link.) 453 454 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 455 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 456 457 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 458 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 459 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 460 461 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 462 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 463 pattern selection for -i and -it. 464 465 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 466 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 467 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 468 469 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 470 471 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 472 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 473 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 474 475 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 476 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 477 478 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 479 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 480 thanks to Samuli Suominen. 481 482 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 483 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 484 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 485 "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 486 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 487 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 488 489 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 490 491 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 492 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 493 man pages. 494 495 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 496 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 497 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 498 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 499 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 500 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 501 502 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 503 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 504 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 505 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 506 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 507 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 508 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 509 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 510 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 511 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 512 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 513 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 514 515 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 516 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 517 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 518 bsdtar.1 manpages. 519 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 520 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 521 bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 522 523 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 524 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 525 actually do the right things. 526 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 527 for non-regular files. 528 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 529 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 530 that bsdtar has. 531 532 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 533 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 534 fix was implemented incorrectly. 535 536 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 537 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 538 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 539 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 540 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 541 instances of this same function. 542 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 543 544 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 545 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 546 547 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 548 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 549 (A little experimental still.) 550 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 551 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 552 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 553 perm restore but don't request owner restore. 554 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 555 556 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 557 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 558 Sonnenberger. 559 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 560 561 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 562 563 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 564 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 565 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 566 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 567 568 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 569 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 570 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 571 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 572 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 573 574 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 575 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 576 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 577 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 578 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 579 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 580 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 581 a reasonably complete test case. 582 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 583 584 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 585 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 586 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 587 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 588 node entries in tar archives. 589 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 590 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 591 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 592 dissimilar systems. 593 594 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 595 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 596 597 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 598 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 599 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 600 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 601 602 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 603 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 604 605 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 606 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 607 format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 608 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 609 code that actually touches the disk. 610 611 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 612 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 613 614 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 615 616 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 617 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 618 Not complete, but should prove helpful. 619 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 620 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 621 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 622 appreciated. 623 624 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 625 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 626 627 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 628 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 629 written to tar archives 630 631 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 632 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 633 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 634 635 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 636 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 637 638 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 639 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 640 641 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 642 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 643 644 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 645 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 646 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 647 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 648 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 649 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 650 651 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 652 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 653 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 654 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 655 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 656 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 657 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 658 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 659 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 660 661 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 662 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 663 portion of the ACL support for now). 664 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 665 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 666 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 667 archives was unaffected.) 668 669 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 670 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 671 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 672 673 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 674 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 675 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 676 677 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 678 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 679 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten for telling me about the 680 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 681 of this long-standing bug. 682 683 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 684 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 685 686 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 687 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 688 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 689 690 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 691 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 692 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 693 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 694 other tools and where they can be better optimized. 695 696 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 697 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 698 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 699 to SUID and SGID bits. 700 701 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 702 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 703 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 704 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 705 706 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 707 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 708 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 709 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 710 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 711 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 712 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 713 714 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 715 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 716 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 717 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 718 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 719 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 720 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 721 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 722 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 723 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 724 for pointing out these issues. 725 726 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 727 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 728 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 729 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 730 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 731 732 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 733 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 734 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 735 that needs to change. 736 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 737 They weren't returning any errors before. 738 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 739 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 740 using archive_write_open() directly. 741 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 742 single files from large uncompressed archives. 743 744 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 745 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 746 extended attribute code. 747 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 748 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 749 750 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 751 752 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 753 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 754 of the storage format to simplify debugging. 755 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 756 spending much time on. 757 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 758 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 759 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 760 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 761 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 762 Pax attribute entry names. 763 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 764 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 765 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 766 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 767 minor bugfixes. 768 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 769 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 770 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 771 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 772 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 773 fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 774 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 775 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 776 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 777 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 778 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 779 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 780 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 781 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 782 new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 783 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 784 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 785 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 786 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 787 and pdtar archives. 788
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