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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