1 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
2 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
3 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
4 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
6 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
8 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
9 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
10 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
11 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
12 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
14 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
16 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
17 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
18 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
19 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
20 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
21 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
22 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
23 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
24 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
25 support the old interfaces as wrappers
26 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
27 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
28 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
29 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
30 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
31 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
32 translating to/from user-specified locale
33 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
34 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
35 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
36 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
37 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
38 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
39 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
40 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
41 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
42 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
43 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
44 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
45 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
46 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
47 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
48 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
49 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
50 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
51 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
52 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
53 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
54 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
55 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
56 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
57 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
58 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
59 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
60 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
61 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
62 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
63 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
64 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
65 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
67 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
68 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
69 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
71 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
72 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
73 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
74 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
76 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
78 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
79 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
80 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
81 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
82 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
83 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
85 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
87 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
88 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
89 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
91 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
92 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
94 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
95 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
96 decompression if the library is built without suitable
97 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
98 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
99 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
100 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
101 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
102 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
103 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
104 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
105 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
107 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
108 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
109 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
110 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
111 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
112 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
113 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
114 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
115 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
116 such system-specific knowledge.
117 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
118 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
119 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
120 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
121 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
123 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
124 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
125 people to participate in libarchive development.
127 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
128 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
129 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
130 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
131 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
132 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
133 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
135 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
136 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
137 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
138 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
139 passes and stacks read filters.
140 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
141 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
142 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
143 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
144 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
145 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
146 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
147 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
148 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
149 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
150 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
151 you want LZMA read support.
152 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
153 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
154 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
155 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
156 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
157 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
159 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
161 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
162 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
163 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
164 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
165 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
167 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
168 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
170 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
171 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
174 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
175 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
177 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
179 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
180 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
181 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
183 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
185 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
187 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
188 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
190 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
191 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
192 The libarchive project can be browsed at
193 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
194 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
196 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
197 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
198 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
199 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
200 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
201 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
202 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
203 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
204 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults:
205 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
206 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
207 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
208 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
209 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
210 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
211 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
212 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
214 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
215 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
217 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
219 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
220 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
221 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
222 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
223 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
224 all known hardlink strategies.
225 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
226 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
227 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
228 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
229 files as they are needed.
231 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
232 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
233 with the UTF-8 fixes.
235 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
236 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
237 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
238 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
239 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
240 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
241 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
242 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
243 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
244 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
246 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
247 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
248 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
249 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
250 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
251 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
252 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
253 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
254 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
255 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
256 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
258 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
259 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
261 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
262 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
263 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
265 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
266 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
267 pattern selection for -i and -it.
269 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
270 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
271 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
273 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
275 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
276 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
277 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
279 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
280 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
282 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
283 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
284 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
286 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
287 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
288 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
289 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
290 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
291 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
293 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
295 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
296 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
299 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
300 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
301 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
302 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
303 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
304 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
306 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
307 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
308 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
309 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
310 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
311 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
312 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
313 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
314 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
315 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
316 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
317 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
319 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
320 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
321 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
323 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
324 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
325 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
327 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
328 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
329 actually do the right things.
330 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
331 for non-regular files.
332 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
333 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
336 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
337 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
338 fix was implemented incorrectly.
340 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
341 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
342 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
343 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
344 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
345 instances of this same function.
346 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
348 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
349 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
351 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
352 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
353 (A little experimental still.)
354 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
355 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
356 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
357 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
358 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
360 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
361 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
363 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
365 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
367 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
368 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
369 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
370 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
372 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
373 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
374 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
375 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
376 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
378 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
379 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
380 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
381 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
382 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
383 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
384 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
385 a reasonably complete test case.
386 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
388 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
389 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
390 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
391 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
392 node entries in tar archives.
393 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
394 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
395 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
398 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
399 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
401 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
402 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
403 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
404 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
406 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
407 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
409 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
410 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
411 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
412 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
413 code that actually touches the disk.
415 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
416 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
418 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
420 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
421 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
422 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
423 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
424 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
425 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
428 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
429 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
431 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
432 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
433 written to tar archives
435 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
436 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
437 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
439 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
440 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
442 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
443 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
445 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
446 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
448 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
449 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
450 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
451 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
452 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
453 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
455 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
456 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
457 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
458 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
459 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
460 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
461 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
462 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
463 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
465 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
466 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
467 portion of the ACL support for now).
468 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
469 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
470 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
471 archives was unaffected.)
473 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
474 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
475 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
477 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
478 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
479 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
481 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
482 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
483 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
484 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
485 of this long-standing bug.
487 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
488 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
490 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
491 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
492 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
494 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
495 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
496 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
497 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
498 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
500 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
501 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
502 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
503 to SUID and SGID bits.
505 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
506 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
507 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
508 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
510 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
511 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
512 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
513 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
514 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
515 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
516 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
518 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
519 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
520 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
521 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
522 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
523 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
524 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
525 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
526 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
527 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
528 for pointing out these issues.
530 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
531 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
532 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
533 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
534 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
536 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
537 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
538 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
539 that needs to change.
540 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
541 They weren't returning any errors before.
542 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
543 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
544 using archive_write_open() directly.
545 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
546 single files from large uncompressed archives.
548 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
549 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
550 extended attribute code.
551 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
552 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
556 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
557 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
558 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
559 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
560 spending much time on.
561 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
562 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
563 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
564 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
565 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
566 Pax attribute entry names.
567 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
568 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
569 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
570 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
572 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
573 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
574 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
575 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
576 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
577 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
578 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
579 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
580 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
581 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
582 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
583 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
584 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
585 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
586 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
587 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
588 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
589 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
590 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,