1 Feb 05, 2011: Fix issue 134: Improve handling of open failures
2 Dec 06, 2010: Fix issue 119: Relax ISO verification
3 Dec 06, 2010: Fix issue 121: mtree parsing
4 Dec 05, 2010: Fix extraction of GNU tar 'D' directory entries
5 Dec 05, 2010: Be less demanding in LZMA/XZ compression tests
6 Jun 30, 2010: libarchive 2.8.4 released
7 Jun 30, 2010: Improved reliability of hash function detection
8 Jun 30, 2010: Fix issues on ancient FreeBSD, QNX, ancient NetBSD and Minix
10 Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.3 released
11 Mar 14, 2010: Symlink dereference fix for Linux broke the build there; corrected.
13 Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.2 released
14 Mar 12, 2010: Fix NULL deference for short self-extracting zip archives.
15 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
16 Mar 07, 2010: Better detection of SHA2 support for old OpenSSL versions.
17 Mar 07, 2010: Fix parsing of input files for bsdtar -T.
18 Mar 07, 2010: Do not leak setup_xattr into the global namespace.
20 Mar 06, 2010: libarchive 2.8.1 released
21 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
22 Mar 03, 2010: Use O_BINARY opening files in bsdtar
23 Mar 02, 2010: Include missing archive_crc32.h
24 Mar 01, 2010: Correctly include iconv.h required by libxml2.
26 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
27 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
28 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
30 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
31 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
32 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
33 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
35 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
37 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
38 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
39 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
40 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
41 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
42 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
44 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
46 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
47 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
48 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
50 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
51 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
53 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
54 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
55 decompression if the library is built without suitable
56 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
57 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
58 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
59 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
60 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
61 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
62 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
63 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
64 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
66 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
67 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
68 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
69 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
70 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
71 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
72 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
73 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
74 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
75 such system-specific knowledge.
76 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
77 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
78 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
79 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
80 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
82 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
83 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
84 people to participate in libarchive development.
86 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
87 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
88 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
89 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
90 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
91 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
92 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
94 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
95 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
96 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
97 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
98 passes and stacks read filters.
99 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
100 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
101 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
102 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
103 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
104 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
105 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
106 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
107 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
108 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
109 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
110 you want LZMA read support.
111 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
112 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
113 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
114 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
115 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
116 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
118 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
120 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
121 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
122 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
123 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
124 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
126 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
127 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
129 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
130 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
133 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
134 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
136 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
138 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
139 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
140 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
142 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
144 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
146 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
147 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
149 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
150 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
151 The libarchive project can be browsed at
152 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
153 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
155 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
156 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
157 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
158 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
159 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
160 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
161 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
162 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
163 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults:
164 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
165 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
166 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
167 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
168 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
169 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
170 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
171 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
173 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
174 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
176 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
178 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
179 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
180 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
181 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
182 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
183 all known hardlink strategies.
184 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
185 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
186 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
187 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
188 files as they are needed.
190 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
191 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
192 with the UTF-8 fixes.
194 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
195 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
196 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
197 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
198 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
199 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
200 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
201 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
202 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
203 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
205 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
206 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
207 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
208 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
209 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
210 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
211 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
212 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
213 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
214 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
215 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
217 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
218 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
220 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
221 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
222 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
224 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
225 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
226 pattern selection for -i and -it.
228 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
229 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
230 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
232 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
234 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
235 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
236 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
238 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
239 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
241 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
242 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
243 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
245 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
246 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
247 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
248 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
249 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
250 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
252 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
254 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
255 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
258 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
259 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
260 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
261 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
262 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
263 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
265 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
266 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
267 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
268 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
269 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
270 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
271 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
272 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
273 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
274 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
275 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
276 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
278 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
279 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
280 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
282 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
283 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
284 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
286 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
287 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
288 actually do the right things.
289 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
290 for non-regular files.
291 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
292 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
295 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
296 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
297 fix was implemented incorrectly.
299 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
300 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
301 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
302 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
303 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
304 instances of this same function.
305 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
307 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
308 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
310 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
311 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
312 (A little experimental still.)
313 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
314 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
315 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
316 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
317 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
319 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
320 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
322 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
324 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
326 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
327 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
328 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
329 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
331 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
332 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
333 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
334 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
335 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
337 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
338 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
339 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
340 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
341 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
342 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
343 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
344 a reasonably complete test case.
345 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
347 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
348 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
349 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
350 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
351 node entries in tar archives.
352 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
353 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
354 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
357 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
358 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
360 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
361 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
362 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
363 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
365 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
366 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
368 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
369 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
370 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
371 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
372 code that actually touches the disk.
374 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
375 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
377 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
379 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
380 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
381 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
382 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
383 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
384 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
387 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
388 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
390 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
391 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
392 written to tar archives
394 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
395 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
396 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
398 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
399 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
401 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
402 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
404 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
405 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
407 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
408 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
409 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
410 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
411 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
412 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
414 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
415 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
416 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
417 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
418 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
419 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
420 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
421 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
422 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
424 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
425 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
426 portion of the ACL support for now).
427 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
428 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
429 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
430 archives was unaffected.)
432 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
433 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
434 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
436 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
437 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
438 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
440 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
441 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
442 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
443 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
444 of this long-standing bug.
446 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
447 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
449 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
450 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
451 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
453 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
454 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
455 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
456 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
457 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
459 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
460 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
461 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
462 to SUID and SGID bits.
464 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
465 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
466 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
467 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
469 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
470 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
471 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
472 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
473 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
474 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
475 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
477 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
478 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
479 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
480 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
481 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
482 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
483 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
484 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
485 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
486 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
487 for pointing out these issues.
489 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
490 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
491 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
492 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
493 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
495 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
496 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
497 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
498 that needs to change.
499 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
500 They weren't returning any errors before.
501 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
502 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
503 using archive_write_open() directly.
504 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
505 single files from large uncompressed archives.
507 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
508 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
509 extended attribute code.
510 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
511 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
515 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
516 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
517 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
518 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
519 spending much time on.
520 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
521 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
522 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
523 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
524 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
525 Pax attribute entry names.
526 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
527 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
528 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
529 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
531 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
532 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
533 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
534 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
535 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
536 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
537 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
538 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
539 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
540 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
541 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
542 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
543 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
544 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
545 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
546 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
547 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
548 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
549 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
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