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