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