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