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