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