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