NEWS revision 1.1.1.7.2.1
1 Oct 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.7 released 2 3 Sep 23, 2024: libarchive 3.7.6 released 4 5 Sep 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.5 released 6 7 Apr 26, 2024: libarchive 3.7.4 released 8 9 Apr 08, 2024: libarchive 3.7.3 released 10 11 Sep 12, 2023: libarchive 3.7.2 released 12 13 Jul 29, 2023: libarchive 3.7.1 released 14 15 Jul 18, 2023: libarchive 3.7.0 released 16 17 Jul 14, 2023: bsdunzip port from FreeBSD 18 19 Dec 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released 20 21 Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released 22 23 Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released 24 25 Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released 26 27 Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released 28 29 Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released 30 31 Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released 32 33 Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes 34 35 May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released 36 37 Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files 38 39 Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute 40 41 Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released 42 43 Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives 44 45 Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction) 46 47 Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider 48 49 Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released 50 51 Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr" 52 53 Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives 54 55 Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released 56 57 May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives 58 59 Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract 60 61 Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs 62 63 Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows 64 65 Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags 66 67 Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files 68 69 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader 70 71 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released 72 73 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files 74 75 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio 76 77 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes 78 79 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters 80 81 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released 82 83 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl) 84 85 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released 86 Security & Feature release 87 88 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released 89 Security & Feature release 90 91 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin) 92 93 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates 94 95 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax 96 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w() 97 98 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project 99 100 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support 101 102 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released 103 Security release 104 105 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released 106 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0 107 108 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released 109 110 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released 111 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 112 113 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released 114 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 115 116 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF 117 118 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. 119 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues 120 121 Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck 122 123 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support 124 125 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. 126 127 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support 128 129 May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension 130 131 Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool 132 133 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support 134 135 Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic 136 137 Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats 138 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) 139 140 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added 141 142 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 143 144 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 145 146 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 147 148 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 149 150 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 151 152 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 153 forks are stored in. 154 155 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 156 157 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 158 159 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 160 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 161 162 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 163 164 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 165 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 166 167 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 168 169 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 170 171 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 172 http://libarchive.github.com/ 173 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 174 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 175 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 176 177 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 178 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 179 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 180 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 181 182 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 183 184 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 185 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 186 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 187 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 188 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 189 190 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 191 192 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 193 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 194 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 195 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 196 will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 197 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader 198 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 199 handling of pax UTF-8 headers 200 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 201 support the old interfaces as wrappers 202 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 203 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 204 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 205 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 206 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 207 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 208 translating to/from user-specified locale 209 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 210 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 211 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 212 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 213 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader 214 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 215 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 216 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 217 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 218 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 219 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 220 May 28, 2010: XAR writer 221 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 222 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 223 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 224 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 225 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 226 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 227 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 228 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 229 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 230 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 231 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer 232 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 233 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 234 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 235 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 236 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 237 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 238 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 239 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 240 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 241 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 242 243 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 244 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 245 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 246 247 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 248 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 249 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 250 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 251 252 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 253 254 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 255 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 256 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 257 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 258 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 259 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 260 261 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 262 263 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 264 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 265 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 266 267 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 268 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 269 270 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 271 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 272 decompression if the library is built without suitable 273 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 274 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 275 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 276 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 277 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 278 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 279 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 280 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 281 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 282 All tests now pass. 283 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 284 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 285 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 286 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 287 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 288 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bjrn Jacke. 289 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 290 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 291 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 292 such system-specific knowledge. 293 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 294 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 295 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 296 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 297 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 298 299 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 300 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 301 people to participate in libarchive development. 302 303 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 304 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 305 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 306 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 307 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 308 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 309 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 310 311 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 312 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 313 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 314 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 315 passes and stacks read filters. 316 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 317 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 318 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 319 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 320 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 321 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 322 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 323 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 324 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 325 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 326 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 327 you want LZMA read support. 328 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 329 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 330 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 331 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 332 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 333 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 334 335 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 336 337 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 338 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 339 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 340 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 341 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 342 343 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 344 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 345 346 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 347 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 348 code contributions. 349 350 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 351 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 352 353 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 354 355 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 356 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 357 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 358 359 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 360 361 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 362 363 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 364 hardlinks have different permissions from original file 365 366 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 367 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 368 The libarchive project can be browsed at 369 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 370 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 371 372 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 373 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 374 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 375 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 376 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 377 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 378 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 379 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 380 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults: 381 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 382 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 383 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 384 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 385 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 386 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 387 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 388 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 389 390 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 391 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 392 393 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 394 395 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 396 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 397 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 398 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 399 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 400 all known hardlink strategies. 401 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 402 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 403 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 404 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 405 files as they are needed. 406 407 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 408 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 409 with the UTF-8 fixes. 410 411 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 412 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 413 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 414 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 415 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 416 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 417 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 418 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 419 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 420 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 421 422 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 423 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 424 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 425 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 426 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 427 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 428 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 429 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 430 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 431 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 432 only with the last occurrence of a link.) 433 434 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 435 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 436 437 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 438 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 439 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 440 441 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 442 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 443 pattern selection for -i and -it. 444 445 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 446 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 447 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 448 449 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 450 451 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 452 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 453 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 454 455 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 456 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 457 458 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 459 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 460 thanks to Samuli Suominen. 461 462 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 463 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 464 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 465 "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 466 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 467 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 468 469 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 470 471 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 472 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 473 man pages. 474 475 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 476 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 477 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 478 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 479 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 480 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 481 482 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 483 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 484 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 485 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 486 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 487 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 488 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 489 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 490 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 491 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 492 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 493 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 494 495 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 496 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 497 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 498 bsdtar.1 manpages. 499 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 500 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 501 bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 502 503 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 504 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 505 actually do the right things. 506 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 507 for non-regular files. 508 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 509 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 510 that bsdtar has. 511 512 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 513 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 514 fix was implemented incorrectly. 515 516 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 517 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 518 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 519 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 520 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 521 instances of this same function. 522 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 523 524 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 525 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 526 527 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 528 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 529 (A little experimental still.) 530 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 531 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 532 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 533 perm restore but don't request owner restore. 534 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 535 536 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 537 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 538 Sonnenberger. 539 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 540 541 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 542 543 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 544 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 545 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 546 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 547 548 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 549 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 550 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 551 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 552 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 553 554 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 555 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 556 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 557 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 558 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 559 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 560 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 561 a reasonably complete test case. 562 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 563 564 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 565 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 566 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 567 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 568 node entries in tar archives. 569 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 570 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 571 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 572 dissimilar systems. 573 574 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 575 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 576 577 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 578 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 579 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 580 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 581 582 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 583 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 584 585 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 586 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 587 format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 588 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 589 code that actually touches the disk. 590 591 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 592 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 593 594 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 595 596 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 597 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 598 Not complete, but should prove helpful. 599 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 600 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 601 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 602 appreciated. 603 604 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 605 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 606 607 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 608 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 609 written to tar archives 610 611 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 612 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 613 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 614 615 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 616 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 617 618 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 619 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 620 621 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 622 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 623 624 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 625 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 626 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 627 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 628 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 629 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 630 631 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 632 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 633 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 634 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 635 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 636 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 637 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 638 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 639 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 640 641 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 642 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 643 portion of the ACL support for now). 644 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 645 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 646 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 647 archives was unaffected.) 648 649 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 650 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 651 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 652 653 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 654 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 655 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 656 657 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 658 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 659 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten for telling me about the 660 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 661 of this long-standing bug. 662 663 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 664 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 665 666 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 667 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 668 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 669 670 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 671 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 672 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 673 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 674 other tools and where they can be better optimized. 675 676 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 677 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 678 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 679 to SUID and SGID bits. 680 681 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 682 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 683 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 684 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 685 686 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 687 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 688 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 689 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 690 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 691 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 692 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 693 694 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 695 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 696 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 697 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 698 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 699 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 700 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 701 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 702 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 703 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 704 for pointing out these issues. 705 706 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 707 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 708 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 709 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 710 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 711 712 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 713 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 714 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 715 that needs to change. 716 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 717 They weren't returning any errors before. 718 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 719 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 720 using archive_write_open() directly. 721 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 722 single files from large uncompressed archives. 723 724 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 725 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 726 extended attribute code. 727 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 728 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 729 730 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 731 732 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 733 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 734 of the storage format to simplify debugging. 735 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 736 spending much time on. 737 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 738 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 739 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 740 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 741 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 742 Pax attribute entry names. 743 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 744 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 745 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 746 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 747 minor bugfixes. 748 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 749 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 750 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 751 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 752 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 753 fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 754 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 755 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 756 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 757 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 758 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 759 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 760 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 761 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 762 new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 763 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 764 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 765 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 766 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 767 and pdtar archives. 768
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