1 Jan 10, 2012: Issue 223: Skip atime tests if atime not supported
2 Jan 09, 2012: Issue 222: Errors saving sparse files to pax archives
3 Jan 09, 2012: Issue 221: allow archive_*_free(NULL)
4 Dec 31, 2011: Issue 212: configure script on Solaris
5 Dec 30, 2011: Issue 218: empty contents extracting Zip files with bsdcpio
6 Dec 30, 2011: Issue 217: fix compile warning
7 Dec 30, 2011: Issue 216: truncated filenames in listings
8 Dec 28, 2011: Issue 210: memory leak on Windows
9 Dec 28, 2011: Issue 206: fix hardlink tests on Windows 2000
10 Dec 27, 2011: Issue 208: Don't hang when using external compression
13 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
14 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
15 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
16 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
18 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
20 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
21 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
22 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
23 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
24 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
26 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
28 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
29 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
30 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
31 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
32 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
33 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
34 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
35 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
36 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
37 support the old interfaces as wrappers
38 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
39 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
40 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
41 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
42 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
43 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
44 translating to/from user-specified locale
45 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
46 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
47 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
48 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
49 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
50 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
51 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
52 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
53 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
54 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
55 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
56 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
57 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
58 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
59 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
60 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
61 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
62 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
63 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
64 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
65 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
66 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
67 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
68 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
69 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
70 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
71 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
72 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
73 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
74 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
75 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
76 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
77 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
79 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
80 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
81 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
83 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
84 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
85 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
86 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
88 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
90 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
91 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
92 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
93 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
94 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
95 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
97 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
99 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
100 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
101 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
103 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
104 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
106 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
107 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
108 decompression if the library is built without suitable
109 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
110 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
111 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
112 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
113 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
114 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
115 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
116 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
117 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
119 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
120 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
121 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
122 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
123 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
124 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
125 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
126 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
127 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
128 such system-specific knowledge.
129 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
130 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
131 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
132 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
133 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
135 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
136 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
137 people to participate in libarchive development.
139 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
140 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
141 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
142 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
143 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
144 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
145 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
147 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
148 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
149 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
150 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
151 passes and stacks read filters.
152 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
153 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
154 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
155 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
156 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
157 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
158 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
159 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
160 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
161 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
162 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
163 you want LZMA read support.
164 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
165 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
166 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
167 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
168 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
169 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
171 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
173 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
174 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
175 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
176 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
177 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
179 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
180 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
182 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
183 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
186 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
187 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
189 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
191 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
192 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
193 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
195 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
197 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
199 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
200 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
202 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
203 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
204 The libarchive project can be browsed at
205 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
206 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
208 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
209 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
210 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
211 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
212 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
213 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
214 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
215 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
216 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults:
217 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
218 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
219 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
220 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
221 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
222 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
223 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
224 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
226 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
227 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
229 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
231 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
232 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
233 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
234 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
235 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
236 all known hardlink strategies.
237 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
238 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
239 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
240 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
241 files as they are needed.
243 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
244 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
245 with the UTF-8 fixes.
247 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
248 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
249 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
250 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
251 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
252 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
253 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
254 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
255 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
256 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
258 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
259 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
260 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
261 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
262 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
263 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
264 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
265 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
266 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
267 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
268 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
270 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
271 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
273 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
274 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
275 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
277 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
278 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
279 pattern selection for -i and -it.
281 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
282 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
283 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
285 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
287 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
288 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
289 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
291 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
292 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
294 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
295 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
296 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
298 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
299 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
300 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
301 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
302 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
303 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
305 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
307 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
308 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
311 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
312 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
313 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
314 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
315 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
316 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
318 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
319 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
320 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
321 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
322 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
323 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
324 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
325 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
326 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
327 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
328 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
329 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
331 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
332 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
333 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
335 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
336 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
337 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
339 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
340 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
341 actually do the right things.
342 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
343 for non-regular files.
344 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
345 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
348 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
349 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
350 fix was implemented incorrectly.
352 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
353 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
354 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
355 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
356 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
357 instances of this same function.
358 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
360 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
361 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
363 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
364 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
365 (A little experimental still.)
366 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
367 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
368 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
369 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
370 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
372 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
373 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
375 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
377 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
379 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
380 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
381 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
382 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
384 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
385 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
386 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
387 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
388 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
390 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
391 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
392 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
393 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
394 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
395 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
396 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
397 a reasonably complete test case.
398 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
400 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
401 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
402 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
403 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
404 node entries in tar archives.
405 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
406 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
407 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
410 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
411 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
413 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
414 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
415 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
416 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
418 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
419 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
421 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
422 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
423 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
424 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
425 code that actually touches the disk.
427 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
428 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
430 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
432 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
433 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
434 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
435 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
436 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
437 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
440 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
441 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
443 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
444 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
445 written to tar archives
447 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
448 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
449 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
451 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
452 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
454 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
455 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
457 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
458 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
460 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
461 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
462 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
463 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
464 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
465 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
467 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
468 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
469 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
470 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
471 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
472 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
473 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
474 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
475 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
477 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
478 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
479 portion of the ACL support for now).
480 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
481 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
482 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
483 archives was unaffected.)
485 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
486 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
487 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
489 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
490 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
491 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
493 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
494 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
495 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
496 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
497 of this long-standing bug.
499 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
500 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
502 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
503 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
504 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
506 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
507 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
508 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
509 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
510 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
512 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
513 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
514 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
515 to SUID and SGID bits.
517 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
518 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
519 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
520 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
522 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
523 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
524 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
525 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
526 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
527 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
528 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
530 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
531 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
532 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
533 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
534 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
535 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
536 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
537 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
538 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
539 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
540 for pointing out these issues.
542 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
543 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
544 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
545 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
546 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
548 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
549 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
550 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
551 that needs to change.
552 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
553 They weren't returning any errors before.
554 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
555 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
556 using archive_write_open() directly.
557 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
558 single files from large uncompressed archives.
560 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
561 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
562 extended attribute code.
563 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
564 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
568 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
569 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
570 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
571 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
572 spending much time on.
573 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
574 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
575 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
576 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
577 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
578 Pax attribute entry names.
579 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
580 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
581 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
582 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
584 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
585 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
586 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
587 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
588 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
589 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
590 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
591 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
592 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
593 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
594 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
595 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
596 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
597 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
598 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
599 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
600 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
601 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
602 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
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