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1Wed 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released
2
3Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released
4
5Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released
6
7Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released
8
9Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
10
11Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
12
13Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
14
15Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
16
17May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
18
19Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
20
21Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
22
23Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
24
25Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
26
27Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
28
29Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
30
31Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
32
33Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
34
35Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
36
37Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
38
39May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
40
41Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
42
43Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
44
45Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
46
47Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
48
49Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
50
51Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
52
53Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
54
55Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
56
57Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
58
59Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
60
61Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
62
63Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
64
65Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
66
67Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
68    Security & Feature release
69
70Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
71    Security & Feature release
72
73Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
74
75Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
76
77Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
78    Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
79
80Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
81
82Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
83
84Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
85    Security release
86
87Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
88    This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
89
90May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
91
92Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
93    Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
94
95Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
96    This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
97
98Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
99
100Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
101    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
102
103Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
104
105Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
106
107Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
108
109Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
110
111May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
112
113Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
114
115Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
116
117Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
118
119Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
120     (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
121
122Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
123
124Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
125
126Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
127
128Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
129
130Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
131
132Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
133
134Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
135    forks are stored in.
136
137Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
138
139Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
140
141Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
142Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
143
144Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
145
146Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
147    (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
148
149Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
150
151Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
152
153Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
154    http://libarchive.github.com/
155Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
156    http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
157Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
158
159Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
160Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
161Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
162Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
163
164Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
165
166Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
167Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
168Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
169Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
170Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
171
172Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
173
174Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
175Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
176Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
177Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
178   will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
179Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
180Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
181   handling of pax UTF-8 headers
182Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
183   support the old interfaces as wrappers
184Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
185Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
186Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
187Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
188Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
189Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
190   translating to/from user-specified locale
191Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
192Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
193   assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
194Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
195Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
196Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
197Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
198Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
199Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
200Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
201Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
202May 28, 2010: XAR writer
203May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
204May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
205May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
206May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
207Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
208Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
209Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
210Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
211Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
212      results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
213Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
214Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
215Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
216Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
217Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
218Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
219Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
220Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
221Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
222Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
223Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
224
225Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
226Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
227Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
228
229Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
230Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
231Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
232Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
233
234Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
235
236Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
237Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
238Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
239Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
240May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
241May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
242
243Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
244
245Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
246Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
247Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
248
249Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
250Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
251
252Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
253Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
254	decompression if the library is built without suitable
255	libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
256	in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
257Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
258Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
259	more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
260Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
261Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
262Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
263Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
264	All tests now pass.
265Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
266Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
267Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
268Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
269Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
270Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
271Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now	with pax format.
272Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
273	extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
274	such system-specific knowledge.
275Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
276	read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
277	filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
278	Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
279Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
280
281Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
282	server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
283	people to participate in libarchive development.
284
285Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
286Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
287Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
288Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
289Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
290Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
291Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
292
293Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
294	consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
295	from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
296	read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
297	passes and stacks read filters.
298Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
299Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
300Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
301	gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
302Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
303Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
304Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
305	some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
306	doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
307	enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
308	now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
309	you want LZMA read support.
310Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
311Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
312	This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
313	time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
314Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
315Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
316
317Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
318
319Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
320Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
321Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
322Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
323Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
324
325May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
326May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
327
328May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
329        for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
330        code contributions.
331
332May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
333        thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
334
335May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
336
337May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
338        This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
339        Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
340
341May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
342
343May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
344
345May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
346	hardlinks have different permissions from original file
347
348April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
349	project's Perforce repository: 	http://perforce.freebsd.org/
350	The libarchive project can be browsed at
351        //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
352        Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
353
354May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
355	* libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
356	* bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
357	* tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
358	  measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
359	* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
360	  distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
361	* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
362	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
363	  run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
364	* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
365	* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
366	* iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
367	  this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
368	* tar: allow -r -T to be used together
369	* tar: allow --format with -r or -u
370	* libarchive: Don't build archive.h
371
372May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
373	This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
374
375Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
376
377Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
378Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
379	ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
380	bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
381Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
382	all known hardlink strategies.
383Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
384Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
385Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
386	now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
387	files as they are needed.
388
389Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
390	a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
391	with the UTF-8 fixes.
392
393Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
394Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
395	to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
396Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
397Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
398Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
399Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
400	bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
401Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
402Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
403
404Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
405Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
406Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
407	bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
408	of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
409	issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
410	several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
411Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
412Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
413	hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
414	only with the last occurrence of a link.)
415
416Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
417Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
418
419Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
420Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
421Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
422
423Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
424Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
425	pattern selection for -i and -it.
426
427Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
428Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
429	Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
430
431Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
432
433Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
434Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
435Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
436
437Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
438Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
439
440Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
441Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
442	thanks to Samuli Suominen.
443
444Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
445Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
446	libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
447	"length at end" flags in ZIP files.
448Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
449Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
450
451Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
452
453Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
454Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
455	man pages.
456
457Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
458Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
459Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
460	archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
461Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
462	libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
463
464Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
465Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
466	"compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
467	by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
468	publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
469	mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
470Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
471	a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
472Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
473	broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
474Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
475	hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
476
477Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
478Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
479Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
480	bsdtar.1 manpages.
481Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
482	to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
483	bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
484
485Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
486Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
487	actually do the right things.
488Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
489	for non-regular files.
490Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
491	This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
492	that bsdtar has.
493
494Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
495Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
496	fix was implemented incorrectly.
497
498Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
499Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
500	block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
501Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
502	with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
503	instances of this same function.
504Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
505
506Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
507Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
508
509Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
510Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
511	(A little experimental still.)
512Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
513Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
514	an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
515	perm restore but don't request owner restore.
516Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
517
518Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
519Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
520	Sonnenberger.
521Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
522
523Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
524
525Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
526Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
527	fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
528	http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
529
530May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
531May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
532	missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
533	from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
534	EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
535
536May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
537May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
538	entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
539	still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
540	worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
541	direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
542	required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
543	a reasonably complete test case.
544May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
545
546May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
547May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
548	problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
549May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
550	node entries in tar archives.
551May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
552	This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
553	of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
554	dissimilar systems.
555
556Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
557Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
558
559Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
560Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
561	(Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
562	Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
563
564Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
565Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
566
567Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
568Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
569	format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
570	'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
571	code that actually touches the disk.
572
573Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
574	Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
575
576Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
577
578Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
579Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
580	Not complete, but should prove helpful.
581Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
582	for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
583	well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
584	appreciated.
585
586Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
587Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
588
589Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
590Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
591	written to tar archives
592
593Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
594Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
595Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
596
597Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
598Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
599
600Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
601Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
602
603Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
604Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
605
606Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
607Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
608    that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
609    The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
610    with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
611Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
612
613Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
614Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
615    some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
616    If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
617Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
618    to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
619Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
620    a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
621    Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
622
623Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
624Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
625    portion of the ACL support for now).
626Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
627    turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
628    libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
629    archives was unaffected.)
630
631Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
632Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
633    Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
634
635Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
636Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
637    whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
638
639Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
640Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
641    Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
642    broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
643    of this long-standing bug.
644
645Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
646Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
647
648Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
649Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
650    without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
651
652Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
653Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
654    and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
655    but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
656    other tools and where they can be better optimized.
657
658Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
659Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
660    of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
661    to SUID and SGID bits.
662
663Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
664Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
665    distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
666    "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
667
668Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
669Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
670    a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
671    you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
672    around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
673    want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
674    (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
675
676Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
677Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
678    most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
679    Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
680    cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
681    the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
682Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
683    corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
684Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
685    very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
686    for pointing out these issues.
687
688Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
689Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
690Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
691Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
692    it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
693
694Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
695Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
696   are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
697   that needs to change.
698Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
699   They weren't returning any errors before.
700Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
701   Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
702   using archive_write_open() directly.
703Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
704   single files from large uncompressed archives.
705
706Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
707Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
708   extended attribute code.
709Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
710   files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
711
712OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
713
714Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
715Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
716   of the storage format to simplify debugging.
717Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
718   spending much time on.
719Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
720   for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
721Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
722   file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
723Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
724   Pax attribute entry names.
725Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
726   appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
727   yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
728Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
729   minor bugfixes.
730Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
731Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
732Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
733   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
734Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
735   fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
736Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
737   pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
738Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
739   http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
740   including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
741   http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
742   libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
743Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
744    new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
745Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
746May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
747    all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
748May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
749    and pdtar archives.
750