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