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