1 Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
3 May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
5 Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
7 Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
9 Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
11 Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
13 Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
15 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
17 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
19 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
21 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
23 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
25 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
27 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
29 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
31 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
32 Security & Feature release
34 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
35 Security & Feature release
37 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
39 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
41 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
42 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
44 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
46 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
48 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
51 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
52 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
54 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
56 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
57 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
59 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
60 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
62 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
64 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
65 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
67 Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
69 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
71 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
73 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
75 May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
77 Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
79 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
81 Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
83 Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
84 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
86 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
88 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
90 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
92 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
94 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
96 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
98 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
101 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
103 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
105 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
106 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
108 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
110 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
111 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
113 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
115 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
117 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
118 http://libarchive.github.com/
119 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
120 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
121 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
123 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
124 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
125 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
126 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
128 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
130 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
131 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
132 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
133 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
134 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
136 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
138 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
139 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
140 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
141 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
142 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
143 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
144 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
145 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
146 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
147 support the old interfaces as wrappers
148 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
149 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
150 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
151 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
152 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
153 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
154 translating to/from user-specified locale
155 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
156 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
157 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
158 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
159 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
160 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
161 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
162 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
163 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
164 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
165 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
166 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
167 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
168 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
169 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
170 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
171 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
172 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
173 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
174 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
175 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
176 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
177 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
178 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
179 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
180 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
181 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
182 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
183 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
184 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
185 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
186 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
187 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
189 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
190 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
191 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
193 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
194 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
195 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
196 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
198 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
200 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
201 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
202 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
203 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
204 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
205 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
207 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
209 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
210 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
211 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
213 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
214 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
216 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
217 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
218 decompression if the library is built without suitable
219 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
220 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
221 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
222 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
223 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
224 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
225 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
226 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
227 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
229 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
230 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
231 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
232 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
233 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
234 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
235 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
236 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
237 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
238 such system-specific knowledge.
239 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
240 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
241 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
242 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
243 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
245 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
246 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
247 people to participate in libarchive development.
249 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
250 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
251 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
252 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
253 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
254 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
255 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
257 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
258 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
259 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
260 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
261 passes and stacks read filters.
262 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
263 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
264 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
265 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
266 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
267 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
268 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
269 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
270 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
271 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
272 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
273 you want LZMA read support.
274 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
275 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
276 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
277 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
278 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
279 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
281 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
283 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
284 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
285 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
286 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
287 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
289 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
290 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
292 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
293 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
296 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
297 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
299 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
301 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
302 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
303 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
305 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
307 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
309 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
310 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
312 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
313 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
314 The libarchive project can be browsed at
315 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
316 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
318 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
319 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
320 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
321 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
322 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
323 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
324 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
325 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
326 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults:
327 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
328 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
329 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
330 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
331 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
332 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
333 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
334 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
336 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
337 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
339 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
341 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
342 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
343 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
344 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
345 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
346 all known hardlink strategies.
347 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
348 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
349 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
350 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
351 files as they are needed.
353 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
354 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
355 with the UTF-8 fixes.
357 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
358 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
359 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
360 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
361 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
362 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
363 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
364 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
365 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
366 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
368 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
369 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
370 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
371 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
372 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
373 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
374 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
375 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
376 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
377 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
378 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
380 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
381 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
383 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
384 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
385 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
387 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
388 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
389 pattern selection for -i and -it.
391 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
392 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
393 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
395 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
397 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
398 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
399 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
401 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
402 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
404 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
405 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
406 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
408 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
409 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
410 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
411 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
412 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
413 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
415 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
417 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
418 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
421 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
422 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
423 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
424 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
425 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
426 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
428 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
429 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
430 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
431 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
432 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
433 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
434 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
435 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
436 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
437 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
438 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
439 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
441 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
442 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
443 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
445 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
446 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
447 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
449 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
450 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
451 actually do the right things.
452 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
453 for non-regular files.
454 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
455 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
458 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
459 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
460 fix was implemented incorrectly.
462 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
463 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
464 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
465 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
466 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
467 instances of this same function.
468 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
470 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
471 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
473 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
474 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
475 (A little experimental still.)
476 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
477 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
478 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
479 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
480 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
482 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
483 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
485 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
487 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
489 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
490 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
491 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
492 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
494 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
495 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
496 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
497 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
498 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
500 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
501 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
502 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
503 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
504 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
505 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
506 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
507 a reasonably complete test case.
508 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
510 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
511 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
512 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
513 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
514 node entries in tar archives.
515 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
516 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
517 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
520 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
521 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
523 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
524 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
525 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
526 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
528 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
529 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
531 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
532 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
533 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
534 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
535 code that actually touches the disk.
537 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
538 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
540 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
542 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
543 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
544 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
545 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
546 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
547 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
550 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
551 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
553 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
554 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
555 written to tar archives
557 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
558 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
559 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
561 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
562 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
564 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
565 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
567 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
568 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
570 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
571 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
572 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
573 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
574 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
575 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
577 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
578 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
579 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
580 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
581 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
582 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
583 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
584 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
585 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
587 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
588 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
589 portion of the ACL support for now).
590 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
591 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
592 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
593 archives was unaffected.)
595 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
596 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
597 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
599 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
600 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
601 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
603 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
604 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
605 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
606 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
607 of this long-standing bug.
609 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
610 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
612 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
613 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
614 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
616 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
617 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
618 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
619 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
620 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
622 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
623 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
624 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
625 to SUID and SGID bits.
627 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
628 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
629 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
630 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
632 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
633 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
634 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
635 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
636 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
637 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
638 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
640 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
641 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
642 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
643 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
644 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
645 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
646 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
647 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
648 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
649 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
650 for pointing out these issues.
652 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
653 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
654 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
655 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
656 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
658 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
659 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
660 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
661 that needs to change.
662 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
663 They weren't returning any errors before.
664 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
665 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
666 using archive_write_open() directly.
667 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
668 single files from large uncompressed archives.
670 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
671 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
672 extended attribute code.
673 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
674 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
678 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
679 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
680 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
681 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
682 spending much time on.
683 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
684 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
685 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
686 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
687 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
688 Pax attribute entry names.
689 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
690 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
691 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
692 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
694 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
695 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
696 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
697 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
698 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
699 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
700 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
701 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
702 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
703 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
704 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
705 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
706 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
707 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
708 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
709 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
710 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
711 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
712 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,