2 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
3 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
4 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
6 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
7 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
8 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
10 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
11 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
12 actually do the right things.
13 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
14 for non-regular files.
15 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
16 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
19 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
20 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
21 fix was implemented incorrectly.
23 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
24 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
25 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
26 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
27 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
28 instances of this same function.
29 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
31 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
32 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
34 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
35 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
36 (A little experimental still.)
37 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
38 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
39 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
40 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
41 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
43 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
44 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
46 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
48 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
50 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
51 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
52 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
53 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
55 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
56 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
57 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
58 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
59 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
61 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
62 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
63 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
64 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
65 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
66 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
67 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
68 a reasonably complete test case.
69 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
71 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
72 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
73 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
74 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
75 node entries in tar archives.
76 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
77 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
78 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
81 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
82 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
84 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
85 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
86 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
87 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
89 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
90 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
92 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
93 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
94 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
95 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
96 code that actually touches the disk.
98 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
99 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
101 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
103 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
104 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
105 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
106 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
107 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
108 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
111 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
112 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
114 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
115 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
116 written to tar archives
118 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
119 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
120 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
122 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
123 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
125 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
126 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
128 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
129 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
131 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
132 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
133 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
134 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
135 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
136 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
138 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
139 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
140 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
141 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
142 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
143 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
144 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
145 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
146 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
148 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
149 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
150 portion of the ACL support for now).
151 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
152 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
153 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
154 archives was unaffected.)
156 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
157 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
158 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
160 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
161 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
162 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
164 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
165 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
166 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
167 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
168 of this long-standing bug.
170 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
171 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
173 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
174 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
175 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
177 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
178 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
179 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
180 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
181 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
183 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
184 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
185 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
186 to SUID and SGID bits.
188 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
189 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
190 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
191 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
193 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
194 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
195 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
196 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
197 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
198 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
199 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
201 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
202 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
203 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
204 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
205 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
206 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
207 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
208 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
209 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
210 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
211 for pointing out these issues.
213 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
214 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
215 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
216 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
217 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
219 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
220 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
221 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
222 that needs to change.
223 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
224 They weren't returning any errors before.
225 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
226 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
227 using archive_write_open() directly.
228 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
229 single files from large uncompressed archives.
231 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
232 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
233 extended attribute code.
234 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
235 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
239 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
240 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
241 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
242 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
243 spending much time on.
244 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
245 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
246 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
247 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
248 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
249 Pax attribute entry names.
250 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
251 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
252 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
253 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
255 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
256 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
257 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
258 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
259 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
260 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
261 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
262 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
263 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
264 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
265 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
266 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
267 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
268 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
269 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
270 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
271 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
272 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
273 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,