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