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