Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent portion of the ACL support for now). Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax archives was unaffected.) Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause of this long-standing bug. Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by other tools and where they can be better optimized. Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating to SUID and SGID bits. Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk for pointing out these issues. Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything that needs to change. Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() They weren't returning any errors before. Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when using archive_write_open() directly. Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting single files from large uncompressed archives. Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific extended attribute code. Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign of the storage format to simplify debugging. Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth spending much time on. Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write Pax attribute entry names. Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, minor bugfixes. Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h fix from Jaakko Heinonen. Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, new directory-walking code for bsdtar. Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, and pdtar archives.