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