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1358090SmmFeb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released 2358090Smm 3358090SmmJan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives 4358090Smm 5358090SmmJan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction) 6358090Smm 7358090SmmJan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider 8358090Smm 9358090SmmDec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released 10358090Smm 11358090SmmDec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr" 12358090Smm 13358090SmmNov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives 14358090Smm 15349525SmmJun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released 16349525Smm 17349525SmmMay 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives 18349525Smm 19348608SmmApr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract 20348608Smm 21348608SmmApr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs 22348608Smm 23348608SmmMar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows 24348608Smm 25348608SmmMar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags 26348608Smm 27349525SmmJan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files 28348608Smm 29342361SmmOct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader 30342361Smm 31338796SmmSep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released 32338796Smm 33338796SmmJul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files 34338796Smm 35338796SmmJan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio 36338796Smm 37338796SmmOct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes 38338796Smm 39338796SmmAug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters 40338796Smm 41321304SmmJul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released 42321304Smm 43316338SmmMar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl) 44316338Smm 45315433SmmFeb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released 46315433Smm Security & Feature release 47315433Smm 48315433SmmFeb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released 49315433Smm Security & Feature release 50315433Smm 51313571SmmJan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin) 52313571Smm 53313571SmmJan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates 54313571Smm 55313571SmmDec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax 56313571Smm Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w() 57313571Smm 58315433SmmNov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project 59315433Smm 60311042SmmOct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support 61311042Smm 62308152SmmOct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released 63308152Smm Security release 64308152Smm 65302295SmmJun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released 66302295Smm This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0 67302295Smm 68302295SmmMay 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released 69302295Smm 70302001SmmApr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released 71302001Smm Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 72302001Smm 73302001SmmFeb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released 74302001Smm This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 75302001Smm 76302001SmmOct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF 77302001Smm 78302001SmmApr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. 79302001Smm https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues 80302001Smm 81302001SmmEarly 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck 82302001Smm 83302001SmmOct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support 84302001Smm 85302001SmmAug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. 86302001Smm 87302001SmmJun 10, 2014: Add warc format support 88302001Smm 89302001SmmMay 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension 90302001Smm 91302001SmmApr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool 92302001Smm 93302001SmmJan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support 94302001Smm 95302001SmmDec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic 96302001Smm 97302001SmmJul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats 98302001Smm (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) 99302001Smm 100302001SmmFeb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added 101302001Smm 102248616SmmFeb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 103248616Smm 104248616SmmJan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 105248616Smm 106248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 107248616Smm 108248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 109248616Smm 110248616SmmDec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 111248616Smm 112248616SmmNov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 113248616Smm forks are stored in. 114248616Smm 115248616SmmOct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 116248616Smm 117248616SmmOct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 118248616Smm 119248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 120248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 121248616Smm 122248616SmmOct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 123248616Smm 124248616SmmSep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 125248616Smm (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 126248616Smm 127248616SmmApr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 128248616Smm 129238856SmmMar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 130228753Smm 131238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 132238856Smm http://libarchive.github.com/ 133238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 134238856Smm http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 135238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 136238856Smm 137232153SmmDec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 138232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 139232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 140232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 141228753Smm 142232153SmmNov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 143232153Smm 144232153SmmNov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 145232153SmmNov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 146232153SmmNov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 147232153SmmNov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 148232153SmmNov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 149232153Smm 150232153SmmNov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 151232153Smm 152232153SmmNov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 153232153SmmSep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 154232153SmmAug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 155232153SmmAug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 156232153Smm will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 157232153SmmJun 26, 2011: RAR reader 158232153SmmJun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 159232153Smm handling of pax UTF-8 headers 160232153SmmApr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 161232153Smm support the old interfaces as wrappers 162232153SmmApr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 163232153SmmApr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 164232153SmmMar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 165232153SmmMar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 166232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 167232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 168232153Smm translating to/from user-specified locale 169232153SmmMar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 170232153SmmMar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 171232153Smm assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 172232153SmmFeb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 173232153SmmDec 22, 2010: CAB reader 174232153SmmDec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 175232153SmmJul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 176232153SmmJun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 177232153SmmJun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 178232153SmmJun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 179232153SmmJun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 180232153SmmMay 28, 2010: XAR writer 181232153SmmMay 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 182232153SmmMay 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 183232153SmmMay 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 184232153SmmMay 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 185232153SmmApr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 186232153SmmApr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 187228753SmmMar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 188228753SmmMar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 189232153SmmFeb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 190232153Smm results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 191232153SmmFeb 25, 2010: ISO writer 192232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 193232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 194232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 195232153SmmFeb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 196232153SmmFeb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 197232153SmmFeb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 198232153SmmFeb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 199232153SmmFeb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 200232153SmmFeb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 201232153SmmJan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 202228753Smm 203228753SmmFeb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 204228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 205228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 206228753Smm 207228753SmmJan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 208228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 209228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 210228753SmmJan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 211228753Smm 212228753SmmDec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 213228753Smm 214228753SmmAug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 215228753SmmJul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 216228753SmmJul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 217228753SmmJun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 218228753SmmMay 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 219228753SmmMay 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 220228753Smm 221228753SmmApr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 222228753Smm 223228753SmmApr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 224228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 225228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 226228753Smm 227228753SmmApr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 228228753SmmApr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 229228753Smm 230228753SmmApr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 231228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 232228753Smm decompression if the library is built without suitable 233228753Smm libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 234228753Smm in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 235228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 236228753SmmMar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 237228753Smm more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 238228753SmmMar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 239228753SmmMar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 240228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 241228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 242228753Smm All tests now pass. 243228753SmmFeb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 244228753SmmFeb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 245228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 246228753SmmFeb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 247228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 248228753SmmFeb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke. 249228753SmmJan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 250228753SmmJan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 251228753Smm extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 252228753Smm such system-specific knowledge. 253228753SmmJan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 254228753Smm read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 255228753Smm filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 256228753Smm Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 257228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 258228753Smm 259228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 260228753Smm server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 261228753Smm people to participate in libarchive development. 262228753Smm 263228753SmmDec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 264228753SmmDec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 265228753SmmDec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 266228753SmmDec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 267228753SmmNov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 268228753SmmNov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 269228753SmmNov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 270228753Smm 271228753SmmNov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 272228753Smm consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 273228753Smm from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 274228753Smm read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 275228753Smm passes and stacks read filters. 276228753SmmOct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 277228753SmmOct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 278228753SmmOct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 279228753Smm gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 280228753SmmSep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 281228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 282228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 283228753Smm some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 284228753Smm doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 285228753Smm enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 286228753Smm now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 287228753Smm you want LZMA read support. 288228753SmmSep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 289228753SmmJul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 290228753Smm This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 291228753Smm time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 292228753SmmJul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 293228753SmmJul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 294228753Smm 295228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 296228753Smm 297228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 298228753SmmJul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 299228753SmmJun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 300228753SmmJun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 301228753SmmJun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 302228753Smm 303228753SmmMay 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 304228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 305228753Smm 306228753SmmMay 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 307228753Smm for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 308228753Smm code contributions. 309228753Smm 310228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 311228753Smm thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 312228753Smm 313228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 314228753Smm 315228753SmmMay 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 316228753Smm This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 317228753Smm Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 318228753Smm 319228753SmmMay 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 320228753Smm 321228753SmmMay 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 322228753Smm 323228753SmmMay 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 324228753Smm hardlinks have different permissions from original file 325228753Smm 326228753SmmApril 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 327228753Smm project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 328228753Smm The libarchive project can be browsed at 329228753Smm //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 330228753Smm Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 331228753Smm 332228753SmmMay 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 333228753Smm * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 334228753Smm * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 335228753Smm * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 336228753Smm measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 337228753Smm * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 338228753Smm distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 339228753Smm * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 340316338Smm * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults: 341228753Smm run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 342228753Smm * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 343228753Smm * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 344228753Smm * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 345228753Smm this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 346228753Smm * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 347228753Smm * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 348228753Smm * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 349228753Smm 350228753SmmMay 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 351228753Smm This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 352228753Smm 353228753SmmMar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 354228753Smm 355228753SmmMar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 356228753SmmMar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 357228753Smm ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 358228753Smm bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 359228753SmmMar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 360228753Smm all known hardlink strategies. 361228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 362228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 363228753SmmMar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 364228753Smm now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 365228753Smm files as they are needed. 366228753Smm 367228753SmmMar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 368228753Smm a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 369228753Smm with the UTF-8 fixes. 370228753Smm 371228753SmmFeb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 372228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 373228753Smm to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 374228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 375228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 376228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 377228753SmmFeb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 378228753Smm bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 379228753SmmFeb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 380228753SmmJan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 381228753Smm 382228753SmmJan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 383228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 384228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 385228753Smm bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 386228753Smm of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 387228753Smm issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 388228753Smm several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 389228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 390228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 391228753Smm hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 392228753Smm only with the last occurrence of a link.) 393228753Smm 394228753SmmDec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 395228753SmmDec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 396228753Smm 397228753SmmDec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 398228753SmmDec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 399228753SmmDec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 400228753Smm 401228753SmmDec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 402228753SmmDec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 403228753Smm pattern selection for -i and -it. 404228753Smm 405228753SmmDec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 406228753SmmDec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 407228753Smm Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 408228753Smm 409228753SmmDec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 410228753Smm 411228753SmmDec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 412228753SmmDec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 413228753SmmDec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 414228753Smm 415228753SmmDec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 416228753SmmDec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 417228753Smm 418228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 419228753SmmDec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 420228753Smm thanks to Samuli Suominen. 421228753Smm 422228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 423228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 424228753Smm libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 425228753Smm "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 426228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 427228753SmmDec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 428228753Smm 429228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 430228753Smm 431228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 432228753SmmDec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 433228753Smm man pages. 434228753Smm 435228753SmmOct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 436228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 437228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 438228753Smm archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 439228753SmmOct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 440228753Smm libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 441228753Smm 442228753SmmOct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 443228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 444228753Smm "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 445228753Smm by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 446228753Smm publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 447228753Smm mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 448228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 449228753Smm a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 450228753SmmOct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 451228753Smm broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 452228753SmmOct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 453228753Smm hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 454228753Smm 455228753SmmOct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 456228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 457228753SmmOct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 458228753Smm bsdtar.1 manpages. 459228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 460228753Smm to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 461228753Smm bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 462228753Smm 463228753SmmSep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 464228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 465228753Smm actually do the right things. 466228753SmmSep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 467228753Smm for non-regular files. 468228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 469228753Smm This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 470228753Smm that bsdtar has. 471228753Smm 472228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 473228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 474228753Smm fix was implemented incorrectly. 475228753Smm 476228753SmmSep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 477228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 478228753Smm block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 479228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 480228753Smm with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 481228753Smm instances of this same function. 482228753SmmSep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 483228753Smm 484228753SmmSep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 485228753SmmSep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 486228753Smm 487228753SmmSep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 488228753SmmAug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 489228753Smm (A little experimental still.) 490228753SmmAug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 491228753SmmAug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 492228753Smm an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 493228753Smm perm restore but don't request owner restore. 494228753SmmAug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 495228753Smm 496228753SmmAug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 497228753SmmAug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 498228753Smm Sonnenberger. 499228753SmmAug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 500228753Smm 501228753SmmJul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 502228753Smm 503228753SmmJul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 504228753SmmJul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 505228753Smm fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 506228753Smm http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 507228753Smm 508228753SmmMay 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 509228753SmmMay 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 510228753Smm missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 511228753Smm from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 512228753Smm EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 513228753Smm 514228753SmmMay 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 515228753SmmMay 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 516228753Smm entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 517228753Smm still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 518228753Smm worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 519228753Smm direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 520228753Smm required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 521228753Smm a reasonably complete test case. 522228753SmmMay 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 523228753Smm 524228753SmmMay 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 525228753SmmMay 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 526228753Smm problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 527228753SmmMay 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 528228753Smm node entries in tar archives. 529228753SmmMay 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 530228753Smm This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 531228753Smm of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 532228753Smm dissimilar systems. 533228753Smm 534228753SmmApr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 535228753SmmApr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 536228753Smm 537228753SmmApr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 538228753SmmApr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 539228753Smm (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 540228753Smm Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 541228753Smm 542228753SmmApr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 543228753SmmApr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 544228753Smm 545228753SmmApr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 546228753SmmApr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 547228753Smm format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 548228753Smm 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 549228753Smm code that actually touches the disk. 550228753Smm 551228753SmmApr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 552228753Smm Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 553228753Smm 554228753SmmApr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 555228753Smm 556228753SmmApr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 557228753SmmApr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 558228753Smm Not complete, but should prove helpful. 559228753SmmApr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 560228753Smm for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 561228753Smm well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 562228753Smm appreciated. 563228753Smm 564228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 565228753SmmApr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 566228753Smm 567228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 568228753SmmApr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 569228753Smm written to tar archives 570228753Smm 571228753SmmApr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 572228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 573228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 574228753Smm 575228753SmmApr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 576228753SmmApr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 577228753Smm 578228753SmmApr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 579228753SmmMar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 580228753Smm 581228753SmmMar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 582228753SmmMar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 583228753Smm 584228753SmmMar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 585228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 586228753Smm that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 587228753Smm The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 588228753Smm with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 589228753SmmMar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 590228753Smm 591228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 592228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 593228753Smm some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 594228753Smm If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 595228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 596228753Smm to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 597228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 598228753Smm a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 599228753Smm Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 600228753Smm 601228753SmmMar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 602228753SmmMar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 603228753Smm portion of the ACL support for now). 604228753SmmMar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 605228753Smm turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 606228753Smm libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 607228753Smm archives was unaffected.) 608228753Smm 609228753SmmMar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 610228753SmmMar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 611228753Smm Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 612228753Smm 613228753SmmFeb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 614228753SmmFeb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 615228753Smm whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 616228753Smm 617228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 618228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 619228753Smm Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the 620228753Smm broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 621228753Smm of this long-standing bug. 622228753Smm 623228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 624228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 625228753Smm 626228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 627228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 628228753Smm without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 629228753Smm 630228753SmmFeb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 631228753SmmFeb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 632228753Smm and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 633228753Smm but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 634228753Smm other tools and where they can be better optimized. 635228753Smm 636228753SmmFeb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 637228753SmmFeb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 638228753Smm of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 639228753Smm to SUID and SGID bits. 640228753Smm 641228753SmmJan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 642228753SmmJan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 643228753Smm distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 644228753Smm "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 645228753Smm 646228753SmmJan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 647228753SmmJan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 648228753Smm a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 649228753Smm you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 650228753Smm around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 651228753Smm want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 652228753Smm (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 653228753Smm 654228753SmmJan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 655228753SmmJan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 656228753Smm most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 657228753Smm Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 658228753Smm cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 659228753Smm the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 660228753SmmJan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 661228753Smm corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 662228753SmmJan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 663228753Smm very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 664228753Smm for pointing out these issues. 665228753Smm 666228753SmmSep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 667228753SmmSep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 668228753SmmSep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 669228753SmmSep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 670228753Smm it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 671228753Smm 672228753SmmAug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 673228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 674228753Smm are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 675228753Smm that needs to change. 676228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 677228753Smm They weren't returning any errors before. 678228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 679228753Smm Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 680228753Smm using archive_write_open() directly. 681228753SmmJul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 682228753Smm single files from large uncompressed archives. 683228753Smm 684228753SmmMar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 685228753SmmMar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 686228753Smm extended attribute code. 687228753SmmMar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 688228753Smm files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 689228753Smm 690228753SmmOLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 691228753Smm 692228753SmmMar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 693228753SmmMar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 694228753Smm of the storage format to simplify debugging. 695228753SmmMar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 696228753Smm spending much time on. 697228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 698228753Smm for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 699228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 700228753Smm file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 701228753SmmFeb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 702228753Smm Pax attribute entry names. 703228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 704228753Smm appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 705228753Smm yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 706228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 707228753Smm minor bugfixes. 708228753SmmOct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 709228753SmmAug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 710228753SmmApr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 711228753Smm http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 712228753SmmApr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 713228753Smm fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 714228753SmmMar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 715228753Smm pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 716228753SmmMar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 717228753Smm http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 718228753Smm including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 719228753Smm http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 720228753Smm libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 721228753SmmJan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 722228753Smm new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 723228753SmmJan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 724228753SmmMay 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 725228753Smm all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 726228753SmmMay 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 727228753Smm and pdtar archives. 728