2 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
3 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
4 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
5 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
6 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
8 Aug 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.57 released
10 Aug 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.56 released
11 Aug 19, 2006: Documentation updates.
13 Aug 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.55 released
15 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
16 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
17 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
19 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
20 They weren't returning any errors before.
21 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
22 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
23 using archive_write_open() directly.
24 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
25 single files from large uncompressed archives.
27 Mar 23, 2006: libarchive 1.2.53 released
28 Mar 22, 2006: Fix a stupid error in Linux extended-attribute support
30 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
31 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
32 extended attribute code.
33 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
34 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
38 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
39 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
40 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
41 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
42 spending much time on.
43 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
44 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
45 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
46 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
47 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
48 Pax attribute entry names.
49 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
50 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
51 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
52 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
54 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
55 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
56 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
57 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
58 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
59 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
60 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
61 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
62 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
63 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
64 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
65 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
66 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
67 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
68 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
69 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
70 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
71 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
72 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,