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1302001SmmApr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released 2302001Smm Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 3302001Smm 4302001SmmFeb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released 5302001Smm This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 6302001Smm 7302001SmmOct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF 8302001Smm 9302001SmmApr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. 10302001Smm https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues 11302001Smm 12302001SmmEarly 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck 13302001Smm 14302001SmmOct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support 15302001Smm 16302001SmmAug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. 17302001Smm 18302001SmmJun 10, 2014: Add warc format support 19302001Smm 20302001SmmMay 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension 21302001Smm 22302001SmmApr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool 23302001Smm 24302001SmmJan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support 25302001Smm 26302001SmmDec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic 27302001Smm 28302001SmmJul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats 29302001Smm (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) 30302001Smm 31302001SmmFeb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added 32302001Smm 33248616SmmFeb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 34248616Smm 35248616SmmJan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 36248616Smm 37248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 38248616Smm 39248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 40248616Smm 41248616SmmDec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 42248616Smm 43248616SmmNov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 44248616Smm forks are stored in. 45248616Smm 46248616SmmOct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 47248616Smm 48248616SmmOct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 49248616Smm 50248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 51248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 52248616Smm 53248616SmmOct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 54248616Smm 55248616SmmSep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 56248616Smm (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 57248616Smm 58248616SmmApr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 59248616Smm 60238856SmmMar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 61228753Smm 62238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 63238856Smm http://libarchive.github.com/ 64238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 65238856Smm http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 66238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 67238856Smm 68232153SmmDec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 69232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 70232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 71232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 72228753Smm 73232153SmmNov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 74232153Smm 75232153SmmNov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 76232153SmmNov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 77232153SmmNov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 78232153SmmNov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 79232153SmmNov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 80232153Smm 81232153SmmNov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 82232153Smm 83232153SmmNov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 84232153SmmSep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 85232153SmmAug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 86232153SmmAug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 87232153Smm will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 88232153SmmJun 26, 2011: RAR reader 89232153SmmJun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 90232153Smm handling of pax UTF-8 headers 91232153SmmApr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 92232153Smm support the old interfaces as wrappers 93232153SmmApr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 94232153SmmApr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 95232153SmmMar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 96232153SmmMar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 97232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 98232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 99232153Smm translating to/from user-specified locale 100232153SmmMar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 101232153SmmMar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 102232153Smm assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 103232153SmmFeb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 104232153SmmDec 22, 2010: CAB reader 105232153SmmDec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 106232153SmmJul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 107232153SmmJun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 108232153SmmJun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 109232153SmmJun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 110232153SmmJun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 111232153SmmMay 28, 2010: XAR writer 112232153SmmMay 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 113232153SmmMay 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 114232153SmmMay 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 115232153SmmMay 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 116232153SmmApr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 117232153SmmApr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 118228753SmmMar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 119228753SmmMar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 120232153SmmFeb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 121232153Smm results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 122232153SmmFeb 25, 2010: ISO writer 123232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 124232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 125232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 126232153SmmFeb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 127232153SmmFeb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 128232153SmmFeb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 129232153SmmFeb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 130232153SmmFeb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 131232153SmmFeb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 132232153SmmJan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 133228753Smm 134228753SmmFeb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 135228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 136228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 137228753Smm 138228753SmmJan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 139228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 140228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 141228753SmmJan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 142228753Smm 143228753SmmDec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 144228753Smm 145228753SmmAug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 146228753SmmJul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 147228753SmmJul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 148228753SmmJun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 149228753SmmMay 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 150228753SmmMay 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 151228753Smm 152228753SmmApr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 153228753Smm 154228753SmmApr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 155228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 156228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 157228753Smm 158228753SmmApr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 159228753SmmApr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 160228753Smm 161228753SmmApr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 162228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 163228753Smm decompression if the library is built without suitable 164228753Smm libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 165228753Smm in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 166228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 167228753SmmMar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 168228753Smm more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 169228753SmmMar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 170228753SmmMar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 171228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 172228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 173228753Smm All tests now pass. 174228753SmmFeb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 175228753SmmFeb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 176228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 177228753SmmFeb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 178228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 179228753SmmFeb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke. 180228753SmmJan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 181228753SmmJan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 182228753Smm extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 183228753Smm such system-specific knowledge. 184228753SmmJan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 185228753Smm read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 186228753Smm filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 187228753Smm Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 188228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 189228753Smm 190228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 191228753Smm server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 192228753Smm people to participate in libarchive development. 193228753Smm 194228753SmmDec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 195228753SmmDec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 196228753SmmDec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 197228753SmmDec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 198228753SmmNov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 199228753SmmNov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 200228753SmmNov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 201228753Smm 202228753SmmNov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 203228753Smm consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 204228753Smm from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 205228753Smm read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 206228753Smm passes and stacks read filters. 207228753SmmOct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 208228753SmmOct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 209228753SmmOct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 210228753Smm gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 211228753SmmSep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 212228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 213228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 214228753Smm some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 215228753Smm doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 216228753Smm enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 217228753Smm now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 218228753Smm you want LZMA read support. 219228753SmmSep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 220228753SmmJul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 221228753Smm This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 222228753Smm time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 223228753SmmJul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 224228753SmmJul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 225228753Smm 226228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 227228753Smm 228228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 229228753SmmJul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 230228753SmmJun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 231228753SmmJun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 232228753SmmJun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 233228753Smm 234228753SmmMay 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 235228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 236228753Smm 237228753SmmMay 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 238228753Smm for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 239228753Smm code contributions. 240228753Smm 241228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 242228753Smm thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 243228753Smm 244228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 245228753Smm 246228753SmmMay 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 247228753Smm This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 248228753Smm Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 249228753Smm 250228753SmmMay 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 251228753Smm 252228753SmmMay 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 253228753Smm 254228753SmmMay 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 255228753Smm hardlinks have different permissions from original file 256228753Smm 257228753SmmApril 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 258228753Smm project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 259228753Smm The libarchive project can be browsed at 260228753Smm //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 261228753Smm Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 262228753Smm 263228753SmmMay 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 264228753Smm * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 265228753Smm * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 266228753Smm * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 267228753Smm measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 268228753Smm * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 269228753Smm distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 270228753Smm * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 271228753Smm * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults: 272228753Smm run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 273228753Smm * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 274228753Smm * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 275228753Smm * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 276228753Smm this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 277228753Smm * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 278228753Smm * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 279228753Smm * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 280228753Smm 281228753SmmMay 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 282228753Smm This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 283228753Smm 284228753SmmMar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 285228753Smm 286228753SmmMar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 287228753SmmMar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 288228753Smm ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 289228753Smm bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 290228753SmmMar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 291228753Smm all known hardlink strategies. 292228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 293228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 294228753SmmMar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 295228753Smm now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 296228753Smm files as they are needed. 297228753Smm 298228753SmmMar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 299228753Smm a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 300228753Smm with the UTF-8 fixes. 301228753Smm 302228753SmmFeb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 303228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 304228753Smm to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 305228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 306228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 307228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 308228753SmmFeb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 309228753Smm bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 310228753SmmFeb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 311228753SmmJan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 312228753Smm 313228753SmmJan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 314228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 315228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 316228753Smm bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 317228753Smm of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 318228753Smm issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 319228753Smm several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 320228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 321228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 322228753Smm hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 323228753Smm only with the last occurrence of a link.) 324228753Smm 325228753SmmDec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 326228753SmmDec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 327228753Smm 328228753SmmDec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 329228753SmmDec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 330228753SmmDec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 331228753Smm 332228753SmmDec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 333228753SmmDec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 334228753Smm pattern selection for -i and -it. 335228753Smm 336228753SmmDec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 337228753SmmDec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 338228753Smm Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 339228753Smm 340228753SmmDec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 341228753Smm 342228753SmmDec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 343228753SmmDec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 344228753SmmDec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 345228753Smm 346228753SmmDec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 347228753SmmDec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 348228753Smm 349228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 350228753SmmDec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 351228753Smm thanks to Samuli Suominen. 352228753Smm 353228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 354228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 355228753Smm libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 356228753Smm "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 357228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 358228753SmmDec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 359228753Smm 360228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 361228753Smm 362228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 363228753SmmDec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 364228753Smm man pages. 365228753Smm 366228753SmmOct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 367228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 368228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 369228753Smm archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 370228753SmmOct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 371228753Smm libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 372228753Smm 373228753SmmOct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 374228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 375228753Smm "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 376228753Smm by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 377228753Smm publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 378228753Smm mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 379228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 380228753Smm a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 381228753SmmOct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 382228753Smm broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 383228753SmmOct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 384228753Smm hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 385228753Smm 386228753SmmOct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 387228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 388228753SmmOct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 389228753Smm bsdtar.1 manpages. 390228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 391228753Smm to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 392228753Smm bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 393228753Smm 394228753SmmSep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 395228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 396228753Smm actually do the right things. 397228753SmmSep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 398228753Smm for non-regular files. 399228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 400228753Smm This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 401228753Smm that bsdtar has. 402228753Smm 403228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 404228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 405228753Smm fix was implemented incorrectly. 406228753Smm 407228753SmmSep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 408228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 409228753Smm block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 410228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 411228753Smm with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 412228753Smm instances of this same function. 413228753SmmSep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 414228753Smm 415228753SmmSep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 416228753SmmSep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 417228753Smm 418228753SmmSep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 419228753SmmAug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 420228753Smm (A little experimental still.) 421228753SmmAug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 422228753SmmAug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 423228753Smm an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 424228753Smm perm restore but don't request owner restore. 425228753SmmAug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 426228753Smm 427228753SmmAug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 428228753SmmAug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 429228753Smm Sonnenberger. 430228753SmmAug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 431228753Smm 432228753SmmJul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 433228753Smm 434228753SmmJul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 435228753SmmJul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 436228753Smm fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 437228753Smm http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 438228753Smm 439228753SmmMay 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 440228753SmmMay 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 441228753Smm missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 442228753Smm from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 443228753Smm EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 444228753Smm 445228753SmmMay 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 446228753SmmMay 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 447228753Smm entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 448228753Smm still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 449228753Smm worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 450228753Smm direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 451228753Smm required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 452228753Smm a reasonably complete test case. 453228753SmmMay 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 454228753Smm 455228753SmmMay 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 456228753SmmMay 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 457228753Smm problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 458228753SmmMay 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 459228753Smm node entries in tar archives. 460228753SmmMay 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 461228753Smm This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 462228753Smm of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 463228753Smm dissimilar systems. 464228753Smm 465228753SmmApr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 466228753SmmApr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 467228753Smm 468228753SmmApr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 469228753SmmApr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 470228753Smm (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 471228753Smm Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 472228753Smm 473228753SmmApr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 474228753SmmApr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 475228753Smm 476228753SmmApr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 477228753SmmApr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 478228753Smm format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 479228753Smm 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 480228753Smm code that actually touches the disk. 481228753Smm 482228753SmmApr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 483228753Smm Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 484228753Smm 485228753SmmApr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 486228753Smm 487228753SmmApr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 488228753SmmApr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 489228753Smm Not complete, but should prove helpful. 490228753SmmApr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 491228753Smm for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 492228753Smm well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 493228753Smm appreciated. 494228753Smm 495228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 496228753SmmApr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 497228753Smm 498228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 499228753SmmApr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 500228753Smm written to tar archives 501228753Smm 502228753SmmApr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 503228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 504228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 505228753Smm 506228753SmmApr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 507228753SmmApr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 508228753Smm 509228753SmmApr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 510228753SmmMar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 511228753Smm 512228753SmmMar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 513228753SmmMar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 514228753Smm 515228753SmmMar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 516228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 517228753Smm that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 518228753Smm The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 519228753Smm with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 520228753SmmMar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 521228753Smm 522228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 523228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 524228753Smm some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 525228753Smm If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 526228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 527228753Smm to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 528228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 529228753Smm a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 530228753Smm Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 531228753Smm 532228753SmmMar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 533228753SmmMar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 534228753Smm portion of the ACL support for now). 535228753SmmMar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 536228753Smm turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 537228753Smm libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 538228753Smm archives was unaffected.) 539228753Smm 540228753SmmMar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 541228753SmmMar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 542228753Smm Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 543228753Smm 544228753SmmFeb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 545228753SmmFeb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 546228753Smm whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 547228753Smm 548228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 549228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 550228753Smm Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the 551228753Smm broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 552228753Smm of this long-standing bug. 553228753Smm 554228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 555228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 556228753Smm 557228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 558228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 559228753Smm without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 560228753Smm 561228753SmmFeb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 562228753SmmFeb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 563228753Smm and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 564228753Smm but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 565228753Smm other tools and where they can be better optimized. 566228753Smm 567228753SmmFeb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 568228753SmmFeb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 569228753Smm of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 570228753Smm to SUID and SGID bits. 571228753Smm 572228753SmmJan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 573228753SmmJan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 574228753Smm distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 575228753Smm "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 576228753Smm 577228753SmmJan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 578228753SmmJan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 579228753Smm a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 580228753Smm you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 581228753Smm around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 582228753Smm want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 583228753Smm (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 584228753Smm 585228753SmmJan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 586228753SmmJan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 587228753Smm most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 588228753Smm Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 589228753Smm cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 590228753Smm the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 591228753SmmJan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 592228753Smm corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 593228753SmmJan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 594228753Smm very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 595228753Smm for pointing out these issues. 596228753Smm 597228753SmmSep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 598228753SmmSep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 599228753SmmSep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 600228753SmmSep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 601228753Smm it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 602228753Smm 603228753SmmAug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 604228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 605228753Smm are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 606228753Smm that needs to change. 607228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 608228753Smm They weren't returning any errors before. 609228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 610228753Smm Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 611228753Smm using archive_write_open() directly. 612228753SmmJul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 613228753Smm single files from large uncompressed archives. 614228753Smm 615228753SmmMar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 616228753SmmMar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 617228753Smm extended attribute code. 618228753SmmMar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 619228753Smm files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 620228753Smm 621228753SmmOLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 622228753Smm 623228753SmmMar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 624228753SmmMar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 625228753Smm of the storage format to simplify debugging. 626228753SmmMar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 627228753Smm spending much time on. 628228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 629228753Smm for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 630228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 631228753Smm file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 632228753SmmFeb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 633228753Smm Pax attribute entry names. 634228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 635228753Smm appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 636228753Smm yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 637228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 638228753Smm minor bugfixes. 639228753SmmOct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 640228753SmmAug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 641228753SmmApr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 642228753Smm http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 643228753SmmApr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 644228753Smm fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 645228753SmmMar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 646228753Smm pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 647228753SmmMar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 648228753Smm http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 649228753Smm including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 650228753Smm http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 651228753Smm libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 652228753SmmJan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 653228753Smm new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 654228753SmmJan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 655228753SmmMay 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 656228753Smm all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 657228753SmmMay 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 658228753Smm and pdtar archives. 659