1Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
2 Security & Feature release
3
4Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
5 Security & Feature release
6
7Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
8
9Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
10
11Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
12 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
13
14Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
15
16Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
17
18Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
19 Security release
20
21Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
22 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
23
24May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
25
26Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
27 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
28
29Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
30 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
31
32Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
33
34Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
35 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
36
37Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
38
39Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
40
41Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
42
43Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
44
45May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
46
47Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
48
49Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
50
51Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
52
53Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
54 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
55
56Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
57
58Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
59
60Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
61
62Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
63
64Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
65
66Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
67
68Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
69 forks are stored in.
70
71Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
72
73Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
74
75Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
76Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
77
78Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
79
80Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
81 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
82
83Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
84
85Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
86
87Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
88 http://libarchive.github.com/
89Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
90 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
91Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
92
93Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
94Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
95Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
96Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
97
98Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
99
100Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
101Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
102Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
103Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
104Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
105
106Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
107
108Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
109Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
110Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
111Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
112 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
113Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
114Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
115 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
116Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
117 support the old interfaces as wrappers
118Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
119Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
120Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
121Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
122Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
123Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
124 translating to/from user-specified locale
125Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
126Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
127 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
128Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
129Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
130Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
131Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
132Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
133Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
134Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
135Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
136May 28, 2010: XAR writer
137May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
138May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
139May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
140May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
141Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
142Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
143Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
144Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
145Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
146 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
147Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
148Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
149Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
150Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
151Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
152Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
153Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
154Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
155Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
156Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
157Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
158
159Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
160Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
161Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
162
163Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
164Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
165Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
166Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
167
168Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
169
170Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
171Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
172Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
173Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
174May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
175May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
176
177Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
178
179Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
180Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
181Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
182
183Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
184Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
185
186Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
187Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
188 decompression if the library is built without suitable
189 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
190 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
191Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
192Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
193 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
194Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
195Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
196Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
197Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
198 All tests now pass.
199Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
200Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
201Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
202Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
203Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
204Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke.
205Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
206Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
207 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
208 such system-specific knowledge.
209Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
210 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
211 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
212 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
213Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
214
215Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
216 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
217 people to participate in libarchive development.
218
219Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
220Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
221Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
222Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
223Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
224Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
225Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
226
227Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
228 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
229 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
230 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
231 passes and stacks read filters.
232Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
233Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
234Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
235 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
236Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
237Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
238Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
239 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
240 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
241 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
242 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
243 you want LZMA read support.
244Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
245Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
246 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
247 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
248Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
249Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
250
251Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
252
253Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
254Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
255Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
256Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
257Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
258
259May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
260May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
261
262May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
263 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
264 code contributions.
265
266May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
267 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
268
269May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
270
271May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
272 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
273 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
274
275May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
276
277May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
278
279May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
280 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
281
282April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
283 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
284 The libarchive project can be browsed at
285 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
286 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
287
288May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
289 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
290 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
291 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
292 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
293 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
294 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
295 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
| 3Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
4 Security & Feature release
5
6Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
7 Security & Feature release
8
9Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
10
11Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
12
13Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
14 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
15
16Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
17
18Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
19
20Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
21 Security release
22
23Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
24 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
25
26May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
27
28Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
29 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
30
31Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
32 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
33
34Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
35
36Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
37 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
38
39Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
40
41Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
42
43Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
44
45Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
46
47May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
48
49Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
50
51Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
52
53Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
54
55Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
56 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
57
58Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
59
60Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
61
62Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
63
64Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
65
66Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
67
68Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
69
70Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
71 forks are stored in.
72
73Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
74
75Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
76
77Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
78Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
79
80Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
81
82Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
83 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
84
85Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
86
87Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
88
89Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
90 http://libarchive.github.com/
91Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
92 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
93Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
94
95Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
96Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
97Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
98Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
99
100Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
101
102Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
103Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
104Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
105Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
106Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
107
108Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
109
110Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
111Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
112Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
113Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
114 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
115Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
116Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
117 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
118Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
119 support the old interfaces as wrappers
120Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
121Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
122Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
123Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
124Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
125Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
126 translating to/from user-specified locale
127Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
128Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
129 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
130Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
131Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
132Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
133Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
134Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
135Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
136Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
137Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
138May 28, 2010: XAR writer
139May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
140May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
141May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
142May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
143Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
144Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
145Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
146Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
147Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
148 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
149Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
150Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
151Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
152Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
153Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
154Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
155Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
156Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
157Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
158Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
159Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
160
161Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
162Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
163Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
164
165Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
166Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
167Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
168Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
169
170Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
171
172Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
173Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
174Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
175Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
176May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
177May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
178
179Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
180
181Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
182Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
183Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
184
185Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
186Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
187
188Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
189Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
190 decompression if the library is built without suitable
191 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
192 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
193Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
194Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
195 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
196Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
197Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
198Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
199Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
200 All tests now pass.
201Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
202Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
203Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
204Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
205Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
206Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke.
207Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
208Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
209 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
210 such system-specific knowledge.
211Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
212 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
213 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
214 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
215Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
216
217Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
218 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
219 people to participate in libarchive development.
220
221Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
222Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
223Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
224Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
225Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
226Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
227Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
228
229Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
230 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
231 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
232 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
233 passes and stacks read filters.
234Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
235Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
236Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
237 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
238Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
239Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
240Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
241 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
242 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
243 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
244 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
245 you want LZMA read support.
246Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
247Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
248 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
249 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
250Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
251Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
252
253Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
254
255Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
256Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
257Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
258Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
259Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
260
261May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
262May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
263
264May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
265 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
266 code contributions.
267
268May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
269 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
270
271May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
272
273May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
274 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
275 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
276
277May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
278
279May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
280
281May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
282 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
283
284April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
285 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
286 The libarchive project can be browsed at
287 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
288 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
289
290May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
291 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
292 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
293 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
294 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
295 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
296 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
297 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
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297 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
298 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
299 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
300 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
301 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
302 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
303 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
304 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
305
306May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
307 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
308
309Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
310
311Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
312Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
313 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
314 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
315Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
316 all known hardlink strategies.
317Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
318Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
319Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
320 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
321 files as they are needed.
322
323Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
324 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
325 with the UTF-8 fixes.
326
327Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
328Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
329 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
330Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
331Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
332Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
333Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
334 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
335Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
336Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
337
338Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
339Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
340Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
341 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
342 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
343 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
344 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
345Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
346Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
347 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
348 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
349
350Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
351Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
352
353Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
354Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
355Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
356
357Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
358Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
359 pattern selection for -i and -it.
360
361Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
362Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
363 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
364
365Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
366
367Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
368Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
369Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
370
371Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
372Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
373
374Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
375Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
376 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
377
378Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
379Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
380 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
381 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
382Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
383Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
384
385Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
386
387Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
388Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
389 man pages.
390
391Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
392Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
393Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
394 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
395Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
396 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
397
398Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
399Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
400 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
401 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
402 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
403 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
404Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
405 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
406Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
407 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
408Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
409 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
410
411Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
412Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
413Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
414 bsdtar.1 manpages.
415Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
416 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
417 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
418
419Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
420Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
421 actually do the right things.
422Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
423 for non-regular files.
424Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
425 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
426 that bsdtar has.
427
428Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
429Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
430 fix was implemented incorrectly.
431
432Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
433Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
434 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
435Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
436 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
437 instances of this same function.
438Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
439
440Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
441Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
442
443Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
444Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
445 (A little experimental still.)
446Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
447Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
448 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
449 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
450Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
451
452Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
453Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
454 Sonnenberger.
455Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
456
457Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
458
459Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
460Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
461 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
462 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
463
464May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
465May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
466 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
467 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
468 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
469
470May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
471May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
472 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
473 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
474 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
475 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
476 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
477 a reasonably complete test case.
478May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
479
480May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
481May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
482 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
483May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
484 node entries in tar archives.
485May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
486 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
487 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
488 dissimilar systems.
489
490Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
491Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
492
493Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
494Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
495 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
496 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
497
498Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
499Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
500
501Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
502Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
503 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
504 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
505 code that actually touches the disk.
506
507Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
508 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
509
510Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
511
512Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
513Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
514 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
515Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
516 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
517 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
518 appreciated.
519
520Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
521Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
522
523Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
524Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
525 written to tar archives
526
527Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
528Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
529Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
530
531Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
532Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
533
534Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
535Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
536
537Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
538Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
539
540Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
541Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
542 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
543 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
544 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
545Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
546
547Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
548Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
549 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
550 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
551Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
552 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
553Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
554 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
555 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
556
557Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
558Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
559 portion of the ACL support for now).
560Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
561 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
562 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
563 archives was unaffected.)
564
565Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
566Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
567 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
568
569Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
570Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
571 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
572
573Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
574Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
575 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the
576 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
577 of this long-standing bug.
578
579Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
580Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
581
582Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
583Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
584 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
585
586Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
587Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
588 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
589 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
590 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
591
592Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
593Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
594 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
595 to SUID and SGID bits.
596
597Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
598Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
599 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
600 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
601
602Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
603Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
604 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
605 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
606 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
607 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
608 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
609
610Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
611Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
612 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
613 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
614 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
615 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
616Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
617 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
618Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
619 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
620 for pointing out these issues.
621
622Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
623Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
624Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
625Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
626 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
627
628Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
629Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
630 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
631 that needs to change.
632Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
633 They weren't returning any errors before.
634Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
635 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
636 using archive_write_open() directly.
637Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
638 single files from large uncompressed archives.
639
640Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
641Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
642 extended attribute code.
643Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
644 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
645
646OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
647
648Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
649Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
650 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
651Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
652 spending much time on.
653Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
654 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
655Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
656 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
657Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
658 Pax attribute entry names.
659Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
660 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
661 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
662Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
663 minor bugfixes.
664Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
665Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
666Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
667 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
668Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
669 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
670Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
671 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
672Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
673 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
674 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
675 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
676 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
677Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
678 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
679Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
680May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
681 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
682May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
683 and pdtar archives.
| 299 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
300 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
301 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
302 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
303 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
304 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
305 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
306 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
307
308May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
309 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
310
311Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
312
313Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
314Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
315 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
316 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
317Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
318 all known hardlink strategies.
319Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
320Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
321Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
322 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
323 files as they are needed.
324
325Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
326 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
327 with the UTF-8 fixes.
328
329Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
330Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
331 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
332Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
333Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
334Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
335Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
336 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
337Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
338Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
339
340Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
341Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
342Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
343 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
344 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
345 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
346 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
347Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
348Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
349 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
350 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
351
352Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
353Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
354
355Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
356Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
357Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
358
359Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
360Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
361 pattern selection for -i and -it.
362
363Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
364Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
365 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
366
367Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
368
369Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
370Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
371Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
372
373Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
374Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
375
376Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
377Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
378 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
379
380Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
381Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
382 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
383 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
384Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
385Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
386
387Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
388
389Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
390Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
391 man pages.
392
393Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
394Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
395Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
396 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
397Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
398 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
399
400Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
401Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
402 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
403 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
404 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
405 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
406Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
407 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
408Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
409 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
410Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
411 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
412
413Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
414Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
415Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
416 bsdtar.1 manpages.
417Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
418 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
419 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
420
421Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
422Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
423 actually do the right things.
424Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
425 for non-regular files.
426Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
427 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
428 that bsdtar has.
429
430Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
431Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
432 fix was implemented incorrectly.
433
434Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
435Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
436 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
437Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
438 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
439 instances of this same function.
440Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
441
442Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
443Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
444
445Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
446Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
447 (A little experimental still.)
448Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
449Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
450 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
451 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
452Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
453
454Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
455Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
456 Sonnenberger.
457Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
458
459Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
460
461Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
462Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
463 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
464 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
465
466May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
467May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
468 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
469 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
470 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
471
472May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
473May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
474 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
475 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
476 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
477 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
478 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
479 a reasonably complete test case.
480May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
481
482May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
483May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
484 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
485May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
486 node entries in tar archives.
487May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
488 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
489 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
490 dissimilar systems.
491
492Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
493Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
494
495Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
496Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
497 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
498 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
499
500Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
501Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
502
503Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
504Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
505 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
506 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
507 code that actually touches the disk.
508
509Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
510 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
511
512Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
513
514Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
515Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
516 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
517Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
518 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
519 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
520 appreciated.
521
522Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
523Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
524
525Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
526Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
527 written to tar archives
528
529Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
530Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
531Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
532
533Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
534Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
535
536Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
537Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
538
539Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
540Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
541
542Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
543Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
544 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
545 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
546 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
547Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
548
549Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
550Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
551 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
552 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
553Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
554 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
555Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
556 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
557 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
558
559Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
560Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
561 portion of the ACL support for now).
562Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
563 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
564 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
565 archives was unaffected.)
566
567Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
568Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
569 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
570
571Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
572Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
573 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
574
575Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
576Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
577 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the
578 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
579 of this long-standing bug.
580
581Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
582Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
583
584Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
585Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
586 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
587
588Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
589Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
590 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
591 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
592 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
593
594Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
595Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
596 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
597 to SUID and SGID bits.
598
599Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
600Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
601 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
602 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
603
604Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
605Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
606 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
607 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
608 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
609 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
610 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
611
612Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
613Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
614 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
615 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
616 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
617 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
618Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
619 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
620Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
621 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
622 for pointing out these issues.
623
624Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
625Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
626Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
627Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
628 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
629
630Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
631Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
632 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
633 that needs to change.
634Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
635 They weren't returning any errors before.
636Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
637 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
638 using archive_write_open() directly.
639Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
640 single files from large uncompressed archives.
641
642Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
643Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
644 extended attribute code.
645Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
646 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
647
648OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
649
650Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
651Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
652 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
653Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
654 spending much time on.
655Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
656 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
657Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
658 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
659Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
660 Pax attribute entry names.
661Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
662 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
663 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
664Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
665 minor bugfixes.
666Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
667Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
668Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
669 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
670Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
671 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
672Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
673 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
674Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
675 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
676 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
677 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
678 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
679Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
680 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
681Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
682May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
683 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
684May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
685 and pdtar archives.
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