1 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
3 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
4 http://libarchive.github.com/
5 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
6 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
7 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
9 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
10 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
11 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
12 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
14 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
16 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
17 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
18 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
19 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
20 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
22 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
24 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
25 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
26 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
27 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
28 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
29 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
30 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
31 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
32 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
33 support the old interfaces as wrappers
34 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
35 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
36 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
37 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
38 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
39 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
40 translating to/from user-specified locale
41 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
42 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
43 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
44 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
45 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
46 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
47 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
48 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
49 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
50 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
51 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
52 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
53 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
54 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
55 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
56 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
57 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
58 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
59 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
60 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
61 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
62 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
63 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
64 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
65 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
66 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
67 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
68 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
69 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
70 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
71 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
72 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
73 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
75 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
76 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
77 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
79 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
80 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
81 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
82 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
84 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
86 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
87 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
88 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
89 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
90 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
91 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
93 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
95 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
96 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
97 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
99 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
100 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
102 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
103 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
104 decompression if the library is built without suitable
105 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
106 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
107 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
108 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
109 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
110 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
111 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
112 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
113 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
115 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
116 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
117 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
118 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
119 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
120 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
121 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
122 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
123 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
124 such system-specific knowledge.
125 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
126 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
127 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
128 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
129 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
131 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
132 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
133 people to participate in libarchive development.
135 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
136 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
137 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
138 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
139 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
140 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
141 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
143 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
144 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
145 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
146 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
147 passes and stacks read filters.
148 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
149 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
150 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
151 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
152 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
153 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
154 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
155 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
156 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
157 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
158 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
159 you want LZMA read support.
160 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
161 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
162 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
163 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
164 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
165 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
167 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
169 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
170 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
171 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
172 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
173 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
175 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
176 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
178 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
179 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
182 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
183 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
185 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
187 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
188 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
189 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
191 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
193 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
195 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
196 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
198 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
199 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
200 The libarchive project can be browsed at
201 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
202 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
204 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
205 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
206 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
207 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
208 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
209 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
210 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
211 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
212 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults:
213 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
214 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
215 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
216 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
217 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
218 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
219 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
220 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
222 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
223 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
225 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
227 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
228 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
229 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
230 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
231 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
232 all known hardlink strategies.
233 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
234 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
235 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
236 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
237 files as they are needed.
239 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
240 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
241 with the UTF-8 fixes.
243 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
244 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
245 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
246 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
247 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
248 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
249 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
250 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
251 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
252 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
254 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
255 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
256 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
257 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
258 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
259 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
260 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
261 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
262 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
263 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
264 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
266 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
267 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
269 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
270 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
271 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
273 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
274 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
275 pattern selection for -i and -it.
277 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
278 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
279 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
281 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
283 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
284 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
285 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
287 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
288 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
290 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
291 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
292 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
294 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
295 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
296 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
297 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
298 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
299 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
301 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
303 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
304 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
307 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
308 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
309 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
310 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
311 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
312 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
314 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
315 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
316 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
317 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
318 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
319 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
320 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
321 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
322 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
323 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
324 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
325 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
327 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
328 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
329 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
331 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
332 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
333 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
335 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
336 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
337 actually do the right things.
338 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
339 for non-regular files.
340 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
341 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
344 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
345 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
346 fix was implemented incorrectly.
348 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
349 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
350 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
351 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
352 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
353 instances of this same function.
354 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
356 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
357 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
359 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
360 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
361 (A little experimental still.)
362 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
363 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
364 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
365 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
366 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
368 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
369 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
371 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
373 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
375 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
376 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
377 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
378 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
380 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
381 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
382 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
383 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
384 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
386 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
387 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
388 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
389 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
390 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
391 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
392 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
393 a reasonably complete test case.
394 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
396 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
397 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
398 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
399 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
400 node entries in tar archives.
401 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
402 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
403 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
406 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
407 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
409 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
410 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
411 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
412 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
414 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
415 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
417 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
418 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
419 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
420 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
421 code that actually touches the disk.
423 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
424 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
426 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
428 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
429 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
430 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
431 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
432 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
433 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
436 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
437 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
439 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
440 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
441 written to tar archives
443 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
444 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
445 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
447 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
448 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
450 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
451 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
453 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
454 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
456 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
457 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
458 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
459 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
460 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
461 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
463 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
464 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
465 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
466 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
467 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
468 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
469 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
470 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
471 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
473 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
474 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
475 portion of the ACL support for now).
476 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
477 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
478 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
479 archives was unaffected.)
481 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
482 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
483 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
485 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
486 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
487 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
489 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
490 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
491 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
492 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
493 of this long-standing bug.
495 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
496 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
498 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
499 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
500 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
502 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
503 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
504 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
505 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
506 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
508 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
509 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
510 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
511 to SUID and SGID bits.
513 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
514 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
515 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
516 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
518 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
519 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
520 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
521 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
522 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
523 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
524 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
526 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
527 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
528 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
529 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
530 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
531 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
532 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
533 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
534 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
535 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
536 for pointing out these issues.
538 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
539 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
540 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
541 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
542 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
544 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
545 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
546 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
547 that needs to change.
548 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
549 They weren't returning any errors before.
550 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
551 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
552 using archive_write_open() directly.
553 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
554 single files from large uncompressed archives.
556 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
557 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
558 extended attribute code.
559 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
560 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
564 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
565 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
566 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
567 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
568 spending much time on.
569 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
570 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
571 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
572 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
573 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
574 Pax attribute entry names.
575 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
576 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
577 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
578 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
580 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
581 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
582 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
583 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
584 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
585 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
586 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
587 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
588 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
589 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
590 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
591 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
592 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
593 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
594 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
595 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
596 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
597 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
598 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,