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