2 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
3 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
4 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
5 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
6 node entries in tar archives.
7 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
8 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
9 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
12 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
13 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
15 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
16 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
17 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
18 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
20 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
21 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
23 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
24 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
25 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
26 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
27 code that actually touches the disk.
29 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
30 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
32 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
34 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
35 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
36 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
37 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
38 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
39 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
42 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
43 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
45 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
46 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
47 written to tar archives
49 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
50 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
51 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
53 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
54 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
56 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
57 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
59 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
60 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
62 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
63 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
64 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
65 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
66 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
67 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
69 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
70 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
71 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
72 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
73 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
74 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
75 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
76 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
77 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
79 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
80 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
81 portion of the ACL support for now).
82 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
83 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
84 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
85 archives was unaffected.)
87 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
88 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
89 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
91 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
92 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
93 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
95 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
96 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
97 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
98 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
99 of this long-standing bug.
101 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
102 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
104 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
105 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
106 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
108 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
109 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
110 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
111 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
112 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
114 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
115 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
116 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
117 to SUID and SGID bits.
119 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
120 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
121 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
122 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
124 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
125 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
126 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
127 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
128 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
129 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
130 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
132 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
133 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
134 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
135 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
136 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
137 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
138 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
139 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
140 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
141 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
142 for pointing out these issues.
144 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
145 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
146 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
147 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
148 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
150 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
151 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
152 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
153 that needs to change.
154 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
155 They weren't returning any errors before.
156 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
157 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
158 using archive_write_open() directly.
159 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
160 single files from large uncompressed archives.
162 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
163 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
164 extended attribute code.
165 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
166 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
170 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
171 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
172 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
173 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
174 spending much time on.
175 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
176 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
177 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
178 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
179 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
180 Pax attribute entry names.
181 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
182 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
183 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
184 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
186 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
187 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
188 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
189 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
190 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
191 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
192 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
193 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
194 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
195 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
196 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
197 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
198 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
199 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
200 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
201 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
202 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
203 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
204 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,