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