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