1Jun 01, 2026: libarchive 3.8.1 released 2 3May 20, 2025: libarchive 3.8.0 released 4 5Mar 30, 2025: libarchive 3.7.9 released 6 7Mar 20, 2025: libarchive 3.7.8 released 8 9Oct 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.7 released 10 11Sep 23, 2024: libarchive 3.7.6 released 12 13Sep 13, 2024: libarchive 3.7.5 released 14 15Apr 26, 2024: libarchive 3.7.4 released 16 17Apr 08, 2024: libarchive 3.7.3 released 18 19Sep 12, 2023: libarchive 3.7.2 released 20 21Jul 29, 2023: libarchive 3.7.1 released 22 23Jul 18, 2023: libarchive 3.7.0 released 24 25Jul 14, 2023: bsdunzip port from FreeBSD 26 27Dec 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released 28 29Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released 30 31Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released 32 33Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released 34 35Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released 36 37Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released 38 39Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released 40 41Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes 42 43May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released 44 45Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files 46 47Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute 48 49Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released 50 51Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives 52 53Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction) 54 55Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider 56 57Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released 58 59Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr" 60 61Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives 62 63Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released 64 65May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives 66 67Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract 68 69Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs 70 71Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows 72 73Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags 74 75Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files 76 77Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader 78 79Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released 80 81Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files 82 83Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio 84 85Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes 86 87Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters 88 89Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released 90 91Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl) 92 93Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released 94 Security & Feature release 95 96Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released 97 Security & Feature release 98 99Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin) 100 101Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates 102 103Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax 104 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w() 105 106Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project 107 108Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support 109 110Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released 111 Security release 112 113Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released 114 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0 115 116May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released 117 118Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released 119 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 120 121Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released 122 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 123 124Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF 125 126Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. 127 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues 128 129Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck 130 131Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support 132 133Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. 134 135Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support 136 137May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension 138 139Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool 140 141Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support 142 143Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic 144 145Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats 146 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) 147 148Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added 149 150Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 151 152Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 153 154Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 155 156Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 157 158Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 159 160Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 161 forks are stored in. 162 163Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 164 165Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 166 167Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 168Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 169 170Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 171 172Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 173 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 174 175Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 176 177Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 178 179Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 180 http://libarchive.github.com/ 181Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 182 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 183Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 184 185Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 186Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 187Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 188Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 189 190Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 191 192Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 193Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 194Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 195Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 196Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 197 198Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 199 200Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 201Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 202Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 203Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 204 will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 205Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader 206Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 207 handling of pax UTF-8 headers 208Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 209 support the old interfaces as wrappers 210Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 211Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 212Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 213Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 214Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 215Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 216 translating to/from user-specified locale 217Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 218Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 219 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 220Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 221Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader 222Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 223Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 224Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 225Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 226Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 227Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 228May 28, 2010: XAR writer 229May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 230May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 231May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 232May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 233Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 234Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 235Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 236Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 237Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 238 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 239Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer 240Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 241Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 242Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 243Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 244Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 245Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 246Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 247Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 248Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 249Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 250 251Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 252Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 253Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 254 255Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 256Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 257Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 258Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 259 260Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 261 262Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 263Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 264Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 265Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 266May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 267May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 268 269Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 270 271Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 272Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 273Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 274 275Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 276Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 277 278Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 279Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 280 decompression if the library is built without suitable 281 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 282 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 283Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 284Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 285 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 286Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 287Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 288Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 289Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 290 All tests now pass. 291Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 292Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 293Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 294Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 295Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 296Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke. 297Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 298Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 299 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 300 such system-specific knowledge. 301Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 302 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 303 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 304 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 305Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 306 307Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 308 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 309 people to participate in libarchive development. 310 311Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 312Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 313Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 314Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 315Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 316Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 317Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 318 319Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 320 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 321 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 322 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 323 passes and stacks read filters. 324Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 325Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 326Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 327 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 328Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 329Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 330Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 331 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 332 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 333 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 334 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 335 you want LZMA read support. 336Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 337Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 338 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 339 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 340Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 341Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 342 343Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 344 345Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 346Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 347Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 348Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 349Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 350 351May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 352May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 353 354May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 355 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 356 code contributions. 357 358May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 359 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 360 361May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 362 363May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 364 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 365 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 366 367May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 368 369May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 370 371May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 372 hardlinks have different permissions from original file 373 374April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 375 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 376 The libarchive project can be browsed at 377 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 378 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 379 380May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 381 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 382 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 383 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 384 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 385 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 386 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 387 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 388 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults: 389 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 390 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 391 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 392 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 393 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 394 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 395 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 396 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 397 398May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 399 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 400 401Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 402 403Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 404Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 405 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 406 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 407Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 408 all known hardlink strategies. 409Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 410Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 411Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 412 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 413 files as they are needed. 414 415Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 416 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 417 with the UTF-8 fixes. 418 419Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 420Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 421 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 422Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 423Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 424Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 425Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 426 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 427Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 428Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 429 430Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 431Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 432Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 433 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 434 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 435 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 436 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 437Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 438Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 439 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 440 only with the last occurrence of a link.) 441 442Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 443Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 444 445Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 446Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 447Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 448 449Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 450Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 451 pattern selection for -i and -it. 452 453Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 454Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 455 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 456 457Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 458 459Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 460Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 461Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 462 463Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 464Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 465 466Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 467Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 468 thanks to Samuli Suominen. 469 470Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 471Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 472 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 473 "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 474Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 475Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 476 477Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 478 479Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 480Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 481 man pages. 482 483Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 484Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 485Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 486 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 487Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 488 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 489 490Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 491Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 492 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 493 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 494 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 495 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 496Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 497 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 498Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 499 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 500Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 501 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 502 503Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 504Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 505Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 506 bsdtar.1 manpages. 507Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 508 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 509 bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 510 511Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 512Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 513 actually do the right things. 514Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 515 for non-regular files. 516Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 517 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 518 that bsdtar has. 519 520Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 521Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 522 fix was implemented incorrectly. 523 524Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 525Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 526 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 527Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 528 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 529 instances of this same function. 530Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 531 532Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 533Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 534 535Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 536Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 537 (A little experimental still.) 538Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 539Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 540 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 541 perm restore but don't request owner restore. 542Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 543 544Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 545Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 546 Sonnenberger. 547Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 548 549Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 550 551Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 552Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 553 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 554 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 555 556May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 557May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 558 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 559 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 560 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 561 562May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 563May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 564 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 565 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 566 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 567 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 568 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 569 a reasonably complete test case. 570May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 571 572May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 573May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 574 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 575May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 576 node entries in tar archives. 577May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 578 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 579 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 580 dissimilar systems. 581 582Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 583Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 584 585Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 586Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 587 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 588 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 589 590Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 591Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 592 593Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 594Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 595 format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 596 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 597 code that actually touches the disk. 598 599Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 600 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 601 602Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 603 604Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 605Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 606 Not complete, but should prove helpful. 607Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 608 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 609 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 610 appreciated. 611 612Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 613Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 614 615Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 616Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 617 written to tar archives 618 619Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 620Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 621Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 622 623Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 624Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 625 626Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 627Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 628 629Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 630Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 631 632Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 633Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 634 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 635 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 636 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 637Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 638 639Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 640Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 641 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 642 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 643Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 644 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 645Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 646 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 647 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 648 649Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 650Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 651 portion of the ACL support for now). 652Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 653 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 654 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 655 archives was unaffected.) 656 657Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 658Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 659 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 660 661Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 662Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 663 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 664 665Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 666Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 667 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the 668 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 669 of this long-standing bug. 670 671Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 672Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 673 674Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 675Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 676 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 677 678Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 679Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 680 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 681 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 682 other tools and where they can be better optimized. 683 684Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 685Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 686 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 687 to SUID and SGID bits. 688 689Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 690Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 691 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 692 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 693 694Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 695Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 696 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 697 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 698 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 699 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 700 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 701 702Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 703Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 704 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 705 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 706 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 707 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 708Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 709 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 710Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 711 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 712 for pointing out these issues. 713 714Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 715Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 716Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 717Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 718 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 719 720Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 721Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 722 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 723 that needs to change. 724Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 725 They weren't returning any errors before. 726Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 727 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 728 using archive_write_open() directly. 729Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 730 single files from large uncompressed archives. 731 732Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 733Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 734 extended attribute code. 735Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 736 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 737 738OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 739 740Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 741Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 742 of the storage format to simplify debugging. 743Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 744 spending much time on. 745Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 746 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 747Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 748 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 749Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 750 Pax attribute entry names. 751Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 752 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 753 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 754Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 755 minor bugfixes. 756Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 757Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 758Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 759 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 760Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 761 fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 762Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 763 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 764Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 765 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 766 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 767 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 768 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 769Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 770 new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 771Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 772May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 773 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 774May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 775 and pdtar archives. 776