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