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1321303SmmJul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released 2321303Smm 3316337SmmMar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl) 4316337Smm 5315432SmmFeb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released 6315432Smm Security & Feature release 7315432Smm 8315432SmmFeb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released 9315432Smm Security & Feature release 10315432Smm 11313570SmmJan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin) 12313570Smm 13313570SmmJan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates 14313570Smm 15313570SmmDec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax 16313570Smm Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w() 17313570Smm 18315432SmmNov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project 19315432Smm 20311041SmmOct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support 21311041Smm 22308151SmmOct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released 23308151Smm Security release 24308151Smm 25302075SmmJun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released 26302075Smm This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0 27302075Smm 28302075SmmMay 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released 29302075Smm 30299529SmmApr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released 31299529Smm Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 32299529Smm 33299529SmmFeb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released 34299529Smm This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 35299529Smm 36299529SmmOct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF 37299529Smm 38299529SmmApr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. 39299529Smm https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues 40299529Smm 41299529SmmEarly 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck 42299529Smm 43299529SmmOct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support 44299529Smm 45299529SmmAug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. 46299529Smm 47299529SmmJun 10, 2014: Add warc format support 48299529Smm 49299529SmmMay 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension 50299529Smm 51299529SmmApr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool 52299529Smm 53299529SmmJan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support 54299529Smm 55299529SmmDec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic 56299529Smm 57299529SmmJul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats 58299529Smm (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) 59299529Smm 60299529SmmFeb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added 61299529Smm 62248616SmmFeb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 63248616Smm 64248616SmmJan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 65248616Smm 66248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 67248616Smm 68248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 69248616Smm 70248616SmmDec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 71248616Smm 72248616SmmNov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 73248616Smm forks are stored in. 74248616Smm 75248616SmmOct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 76248616Smm 77248616SmmOct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 78248616Smm 79248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 80248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 81248616Smm 82248616SmmOct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 83248616Smm 84248616SmmSep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 85248616Smm (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 86248616Smm 87248616SmmApr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 88248616Smm 89238856SmmMar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 90228753Smm 91238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 92238856Smm http://libarchive.github.com/ 93238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 94238856Smm http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 95238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 96238856Smm 97232153SmmDec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 98232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 99232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 100232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 101228753Smm 102232153SmmNov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 103232153Smm 104232153SmmNov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 105232153SmmNov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 106232153SmmNov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 107232153SmmNov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 108232153SmmNov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 109232153Smm 110232153SmmNov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 111232153Smm 112232153SmmNov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 113232153SmmSep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 114232153SmmAug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 115232153SmmAug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 116232153Smm will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 117232153SmmJun 26, 2011: RAR reader 118232153SmmJun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 119232153Smm handling of pax UTF-8 headers 120232153SmmApr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 121232153Smm support the old interfaces as wrappers 122232153SmmApr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 123232153SmmApr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 124232153SmmMar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 125232153SmmMar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 126232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 127232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 128232153Smm translating to/from user-specified locale 129232153SmmMar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 130232153SmmMar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 131232153Smm assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 132232153SmmFeb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 133232153SmmDec 22, 2010: CAB reader 134232153SmmDec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 135232153SmmJul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 136232153SmmJun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 137232153SmmJun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 138232153SmmJun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 139232153SmmJun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 140232153SmmMay 28, 2010: XAR writer 141232153SmmMay 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 142232153SmmMay 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 143232153SmmMay 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 144232153SmmMay 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 145232153SmmApr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 146232153SmmApr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 147228753SmmMar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 148228753SmmMar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 149232153SmmFeb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 150232153Smm results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 151232153SmmFeb 25, 2010: ISO writer 152232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 153232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 154232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 155232153SmmFeb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 156232153SmmFeb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 157232153SmmFeb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 158232153SmmFeb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 159232153SmmFeb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 160232153SmmFeb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 161232153SmmJan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 162228753Smm 163228753SmmFeb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 164228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 165228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 166228753Smm 167228753SmmJan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 168228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 169228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 170228753SmmJan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 171228753Smm 172228753SmmDec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 173228753Smm 174228753SmmAug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 175228753SmmJul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 176228753SmmJul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 177228753SmmJun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 178228753SmmMay 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 179228753SmmMay 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 180228753Smm 181228753SmmApr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 182228753Smm 183228753SmmApr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 184228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 185228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 186228753Smm 187228753SmmApr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 188228753SmmApr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 189228753Smm 190228753SmmApr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 191228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 192228753Smm decompression if the library is built without suitable 193228753Smm libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 194228753Smm in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 195228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 196228753SmmMar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 197228753Smm more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 198228753SmmMar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 199228753SmmMar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 200228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 201228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 202228753Smm All tests now pass. 203228753SmmFeb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 204228753SmmFeb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 205228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 206228753SmmFeb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 207228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 208228753SmmFeb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke. 209228753SmmJan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 210228753SmmJan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 211228753Smm extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 212228753Smm such system-specific knowledge. 213228753SmmJan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 214228753Smm read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 215228753Smm filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 216228753Smm Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 217228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 218228753Smm 219228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 220228753Smm server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 221228753Smm people to participate in libarchive development. 222228753Smm 223228753SmmDec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 224228753SmmDec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 225228753SmmDec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 226228753SmmDec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 227228753SmmNov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 228228753SmmNov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 229228753SmmNov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 230228753Smm 231228753SmmNov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 232228753Smm consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 233228753Smm from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 234228753Smm read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 235228753Smm passes and stacks read filters. 236228753SmmOct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 237228753SmmOct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 238228753SmmOct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 239228753Smm gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 240228753SmmSep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 241228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 242228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 243228753Smm some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 244228753Smm doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 245228753Smm enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 246228753Smm now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 247228753Smm you want LZMA read support. 248228753SmmSep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 249228753SmmJul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 250228753Smm This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 251228753Smm time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 252228753SmmJul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 253228753SmmJul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 254228753Smm 255228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 256228753Smm 257228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 258228753SmmJul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 259228753SmmJun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 260228753SmmJun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 261228753SmmJun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 262228753Smm 263228753SmmMay 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 264228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 265228753Smm 266228753SmmMay 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 267228753Smm for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 268228753Smm code contributions. 269228753Smm 270228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 271228753Smm thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 272228753Smm 273228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 274228753Smm 275228753SmmMay 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 276228753Smm This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 277228753Smm Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 278228753Smm 279228753SmmMay 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 280228753Smm 281228753SmmMay 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 282228753Smm 283228753SmmMay 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 284228753Smm hardlinks have different permissions from original file 285228753Smm 286228753SmmApril 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 287228753Smm project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 288228753Smm The libarchive project can be browsed at 289228753Smm //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 290228753Smm Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 291228753Smm 292228753SmmMay 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 293228753Smm * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 294228753Smm * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 295228753Smm * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 296228753Smm measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 297228753Smm * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 298228753Smm distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 299228753Smm * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 300316337Smm * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults: 301228753Smm run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 302228753Smm * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 303228753Smm * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 304228753Smm * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 305228753Smm this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 306228753Smm * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 307228753Smm * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 308228753Smm * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 309228753Smm 310228753SmmMay 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 311228753Smm This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 312228753Smm 313228753SmmMar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 314228753Smm 315228753SmmMar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 316228753SmmMar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 317228753Smm ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 318228753Smm bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 319228753SmmMar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 320228753Smm all known hardlink strategies. 321228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 322228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 323228753SmmMar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 324228753Smm now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 325228753Smm files as they are needed. 326228753Smm 327228753SmmMar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 328228753Smm a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 329228753Smm with the UTF-8 fixes. 330228753Smm 331228753SmmFeb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 332228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 333228753Smm to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 334228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 335228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 336228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 337228753SmmFeb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 338228753Smm bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 339228753SmmFeb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 340228753SmmJan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 341228753Smm 342228753SmmJan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 343228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 344228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 345228753Smm bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 346228753Smm of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 347228753Smm issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 348228753Smm several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 349228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 350228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 351228753Smm hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 352228753Smm only with the last occurrence of a link.) 353228753Smm 354228753SmmDec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 355228753SmmDec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 356228753Smm 357228753SmmDec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 358228753SmmDec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 359228753SmmDec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 360228753Smm 361228753SmmDec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 362228753SmmDec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 363228753Smm pattern selection for -i and -it. 364228753Smm 365228753SmmDec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 366228753SmmDec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 367228753Smm Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 368228753Smm 369228753SmmDec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 370228753Smm 371228753SmmDec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 372228753SmmDec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 373228753SmmDec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 374228753Smm 375228753SmmDec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 376228753SmmDec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 377228753Smm 378228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 379228753SmmDec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 380228753Smm thanks to Samuli Suominen. 381228753Smm 382228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 383228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 384228753Smm libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 385228753Smm "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 386228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 387228753SmmDec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 388228753Smm 389228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 390228753Smm 391228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 392228753SmmDec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 393228753Smm man pages. 394228753Smm 395228753SmmOct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 396228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 397228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 398228753Smm archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 399228753SmmOct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 400228753Smm libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 401228753Smm 402228753SmmOct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 403228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 404228753Smm "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 405228753Smm by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 406228753Smm publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 407228753Smm mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 408228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 409228753Smm a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 410228753SmmOct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 411228753Smm broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 412228753SmmOct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 413228753Smm hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 414228753Smm 415228753SmmOct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 416228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 417228753SmmOct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 418228753Smm bsdtar.1 manpages. 419228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 420228753Smm to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 421228753Smm bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 422228753Smm 423228753SmmSep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 424228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 425228753Smm actually do the right things. 426228753SmmSep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 427228753Smm for non-regular files. 428228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 429228753Smm This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 430228753Smm that bsdtar has. 431228753Smm 432228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 433228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 434228753Smm fix was implemented incorrectly. 435228753Smm 436228753SmmSep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 437228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 438228753Smm block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 439228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 440228753Smm with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 441228753Smm instances of this same function. 442228753SmmSep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 443228753Smm 444228753SmmSep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 445228753SmmSep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 446228753Smm 447228753SmmSep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 448228753SmmAug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 449228753Smm (A little experimental still.) 450228753SmmAug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 451228753SmmAug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 452228753Smm an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 453228753Smm perm restore but don't request owner restore. 454228753SmmAug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 455228753Smm 456228753SmmAug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 457228753SmmAug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 458228753Smm Sonnenberger. 459228753SmmAug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 460228753Smm 461228753SmmJul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 462228753Smm 463228753SmmJul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 464228753SmmJul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 465228753Smm fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 466228753Smm http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 467228753Smm 468228753SmmMay 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 469228753SmmMay 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 470228753Smm missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 471228753Smm from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 472228753Smm EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 473228753Smm 474228753SmmMay 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 475228753SmmMay 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 476228753Smm entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 477228753Smm still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 478228753Smm worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 479228753Smm direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 480228753Smm required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 481228753Smm a reasonably complete test case. 482228753SmmMay 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 483228753Smm 484228753SmmMay 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 485228753SmmMay 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 486228753Smm problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 487228753SmmMay 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 488228753Smm node entries in tar archives. 489228753SmmMay 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 490228753Smm This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 491228753Smm of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 492228753Smm dissimilar systems. 493228753Smm 494228753SmmApr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 495228753SmmApr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 496228753Smm 497228753SmmApr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 498228753SmmApr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 499228753Smm (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 500228753Smm Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 501228753Smm 502228753SmmApr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 503228753SmmApr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 504228753Smm 505228753SmmApr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 506228753SmmApr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 507228753Smm format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 508228753Smm 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 509228753Smm code that actually touches the disk. 510228753Smm 511228753SmmApr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 512228753Smm Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 513228753Smm 514228753SmmApr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 515228753Smm 516228753SmmApr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 517228753SmmApr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 518228753Smm Not complete, but should prove helpful. 519228753SmmApr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 520228753Smm for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 521228753Smm well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 522228753Smm appreciated. 523228753Smm 524228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 525228753SmmApr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 526228753Smm 527228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 528228753SmmApr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 529228753Smm written to tar archives 530228753Smm 531228753SmmApr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 532228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 533228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 534228753Smm 535228753SmmApr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 536228753SmmApr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 537228753Smm 538228753SmmApr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 539228753SmmMar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 540228753Smm 541228753SmmMar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 542228753SmmMar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 543228753Smm 544228753SmmMar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 545228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 546228753Smm that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 547228753Smm The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 548228753Smm with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 549228753SmmMar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 550228753Smm 551228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 552228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 553228753Smm some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 554228753Smm If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 555228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 556228753Smm to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 557228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 558228753Smm a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 559228753Smm Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 560228753Smm 561228753SmmMar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 562228753SmmMar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 563228753Smm portion of the ACL support for now). 564228753SmmMar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 565228753Smm turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 566228753Smm libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 567228753Smm archives was unaffected.) 568228753Smm 569228753SmmMar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 570228753SmmMar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 571228753Smm Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 572228753Smm 573228753SmmFeb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 574228753SmmFeb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 575228753Smm whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 576228753Smm 577228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 578228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 579228753Smm Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the 580228753Smm broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 581228753Smm of this long-standing bug. 582228753Smm 583228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 584228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 585228753Smm 586228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 587228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 588228753Smm without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 589228753Smm 590228753SmmFeb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 591228753SmmFeb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 592228753Smm and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 593228753Smm but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 594228753Smm other tools and where they can be better optimized. 595228753Smm 596228753SmmFeb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 597228753SmmFeb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 598228753Smm of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 599228753Smm to SUID and SGID bits. 600228753Smm 601228753SmmJan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 602228753SmmJan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 603228753Smm distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 604228753Smm "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 605228753Smm 606228753SmmJan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 607228753SmmJan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 608228753Smm a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 609228753Smm you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 610228753Smm around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 611228753Smm want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 612228753Smm (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 613228753Smm 614228753SmmJan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 615228753SmmJan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 616228753Smm most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 617228753Smm Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 618228753Smm cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 619228753Smm the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 620228753SmmJan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 621228753Smm corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 622228753SmmJan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 623228753Smm very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 624228753Smm for pointing out these issues. 625228753Smm 626228753SmmSep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 627228753SmmSep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 628228753SmmSep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 629228753SmmSep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 630228753Smm it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 631228753Smm 632228753SmmAug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 633228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 634228753Smm are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 635228753Smm that needs to change. 636228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 637228753Smm They weren't returning any errors before. 638228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 639228753Smm Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 640228753Smm using archive_write_open() directly. 641228753SmmJul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 642228753Smm single files from large uncompressed archives. 643228753Smm 644228753SmmMar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 645228753SmmMar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 646228753Smm extended attribute code. 647228753SmmMar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 648228753Smm files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 649228753Smm 650228753SmmOLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 651228753Smm 652228753SmmMar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 653228753SmmMar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 654228753Smm of the storage format to simplify debugging. 655228753SmmMar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 656228753Smm spending much time on. 657228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 658228753Smm for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 659228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 660228753Smm file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 661228753SmmFeb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 662228753Smm Pax attribute entry names. 663228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 664228753Smm appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 665228753Smm yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 666228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 667228753Smm minor bugfixes. 668228753SmmOct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 669228753SmmAug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 670228753SmmApr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 671228753Smm http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 672228753SmmApr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 673228753Smm fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 674228753SmmMar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 675228753Smm pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 676228753SmmMar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 677228753Smm http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 678228753Smm including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 679228753Smm http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 680228753Smm libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 681228753SmmJan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 682228753Smm new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 683228753SmmJan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 684228753SmmMay 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 685228753Smm all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 686228753SmmMay 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 687228753Smm and pdtar archives. 688