NEWS revision 368707
1Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
2
3Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
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5May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
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7Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
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9Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
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11Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
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13Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
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15Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
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17Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
18
19Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
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21Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
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23Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
24
25Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
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27May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
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29Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
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31Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
32
33Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
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35Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
36
37Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
38
39Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
40
41Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
42
43Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
44
45Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
46
47Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
48
49Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
50
51Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
52
53Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
54
55Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
56    Security & Feature release
57
58Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
59    Security & Feature release
60
61Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
62
63Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
64
65Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
66    Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
67
68Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
69
70Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
71
72Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
73    Security release
74
75Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
76    This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
77
78May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
79
80Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
81    Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
82
83Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
84    This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
85
86Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
87
88Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
89    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
90
91Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
92
93Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
94
95Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
96
97Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
98
99May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
100
101Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
102
103Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
104
105Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
106
107Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
108     (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
109
110Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
111
112Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
113
114Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
115
116Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
117
118Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
119
120Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
121    
122Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
123    forks are stored in.
124
125Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
126
127Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
128
129Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.    
130Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
131
132Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
133    
134Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
135    (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
136    
137Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
138
139Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
140
141Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
142    http://libarchive.github.com/
143Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
144    http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
145Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
146
147Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
148Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
149Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
150Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
151
152Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
153
154Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
155Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
156Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
157Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
158Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
159
160Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
161
162Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
163Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
164Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
165Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
166   will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
167Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
168Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
169   handling of pax UTF-8 headers
170Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
171   support the old interfaces as wrappers
172Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
173Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
174Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
175Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
176Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
177Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
178   translating to/from user-specified locale
179Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
180Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
181   assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
182Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
183Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
184Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
185Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
186Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
187Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
188Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
189Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
190May 28, 2010: XAR writer
191May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
192May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
193May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
194May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
195Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
196Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
197Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
198Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
199Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
200      results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
201Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
202Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
203Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
204Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
205Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
206Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
207Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
208Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
209Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
210Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
211Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
212
213Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
214Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
215Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
216
217Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
218Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
219Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
220Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
221
222Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
223
224Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
225Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
226Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
227Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
228May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
229May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
230
231Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
232
233Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
234Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
235Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
236
237Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
238Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
239
240Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
241Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
242	decompression if the library is built without suitable
243	libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
244	in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
245Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
246Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
247	more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
248Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
249Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
250Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
251Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
252	All tests now pass.
253Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
254Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
255Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
256Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
257Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
258Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke.
259Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now	with pax format.
260Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
261	extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
262	such system-specific knowledge.
263Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
264	read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
265	filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
266	Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
267Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
268
269Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
270	server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
271	people to participate in libarchive development.
272
273Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
274Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
275Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
276Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
277Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
278Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
279Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
280
281Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
282	consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
283	from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
284	read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
285	passes and stacks read filters.
286Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
287Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
288Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
289	gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
290Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
291Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
292Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
293	some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
294	doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
295	enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
296	now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
297	you want LZMA read support.
298Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
299Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
300	This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
301	time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
302Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
303Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
304
305Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
306
307Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
308Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
309Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
310Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
311Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
312
313May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
314May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
315
316May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
317        for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
318        code contributions.
319
320May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
321        thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
322
323May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
324
325May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
326        This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
327        Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
328
329May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
330
331May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
332
333May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
334	hardlinks have different permissions from original file
335
336April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
337	project's Perforce repository: 	http://perforce.freebsd.org/
338	The libarchive project can be browsed at
339        //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
340        Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
341
342May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
343	* libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
344	* bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
345	* tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
346	  measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
347	* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
348	  distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
349	* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
350	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
351	  run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
352	* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
353	* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
354	* iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
355	  this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
356	* tar: allow -r -T to be used together
357	* tar: allow --format with -r or -u
358	* libarchive: Don't build archive.h
359
360May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
361	This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
362
363Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
364
365Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
366Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
367	ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
368	bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
369Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
370	all known hardlink strategies.
371Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
372Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
373Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
374	now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
375	files as they are needed.
376
377Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
378	a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
379	with the UTF-8 fixes.
380
381Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
382Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
383	to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
384Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
385Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
386Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
387Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
388	bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
389Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
390Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
391
392Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
393Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
394Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
395	bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
396	of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
397	issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
398	several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
399Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
400Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
401	hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
402	only with the last occurrence of a link.)
403
404Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
405Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
406
407Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
408Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
409Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
410
411Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
412Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
413	pattern selection for -i and -it.
414
415Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
416Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
417	Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
418
419Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
420
421Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
422Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
423Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
424
425Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
426Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
427
428Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
429Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
430	thanks to Samuli Suominen.
431
432Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
433Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
434	libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
435	"length at end" flags in ZIP files.
436Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
437Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
438
439Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
440
441Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
442Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
443	man pages.
444
445Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
446Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
447Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
448	archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
449Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
450	libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
451
452Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
453Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
454	"compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
455	by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
456	publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
457	mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
458Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
459	a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
460Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
461	broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
462Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
463	hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
464
465Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
466Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
467Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
468	bsdtar.1 manpages.
469Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
470	to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
471	bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
472
473Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
474Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
475	actually do the right things.
476Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
477	for non-regular files.
478Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
479	This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
480	that bsdtar has.
481
482Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
483Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
484	fix was implemented incorrectly.
485
486Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
487Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
488	block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
489Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
490	with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
491	instances of this same function.
492Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
493
494Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
495Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
496
497Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
498Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
499	(A little experimental still.)
500Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
501Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
502	an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
503	perm restore but don't request owner restore.
504Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
505
506Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
507Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
508	Sonnenberger.
509Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
510
511Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
512
513Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
514Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
515	fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
516	http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
517
518May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
519May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
520	missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
521	from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
522	EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
523
524May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
525May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
526	entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
527	still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
528	worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
529	direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
530	required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
531	a reasonably complete test case.
532May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
533
534May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
535May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
536	problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
537May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
538	node entries in tar archives.
539May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
540	This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
541	of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
542	dissimilar systems.
543
544Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
545Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
546
547Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
548Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
549	(Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
550	Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
551
552Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
553Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
554
555Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
556Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
557	format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
558	'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
559	code that actually touches the disk.
560
561Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
562	Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
563
564Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
565
566Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
567Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
568	Not complete, but should prove helpful.
569Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
570	for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
571	well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
572	appreciated.
573
574Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
575Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
576
577Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
578Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
579	written to tar archives
580
581Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
582Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
583Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
584
585Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
586Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
587
588Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
589Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
590
591Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
592Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
593
594Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
595Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
596    that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
597    The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
598    with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
599Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
600
601Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
602Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
603    some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
604    If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
605Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
606    to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
607Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
608    a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
609    Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
610
611Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
612Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
613    portion of the ACL support for now).
614Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
615    turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
616    libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
617    archives was unaffected.)
618
619Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
620Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
621    Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
622
623Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
624Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
625    whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
626
627Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
628Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
629    Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the
630    broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
631    of this long-standing bug.
632
633Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
634Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
635
636Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
637Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
638    without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
639
640Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
641Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
642    and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
643    but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
644    other tools and where they can be better optimized.
645
646Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
647Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
648    of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
649    to SUID and SGID bits.
650
651Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
652Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
653    distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
654    "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
655
656Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
657Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
658    a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
659    you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
660    around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
661    want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
662    (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
663
664Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
665Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
666    most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
667    Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
668    cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
669    the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
670Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
671    corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
672Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
673    very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
674    for pointing out these issues.
675
676Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
677Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
678Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
679Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
680    it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
681
682Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
683Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
684   are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
685   that needs to change.
686Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
687   They weren't returning any errors before.
688Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
689   Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
690   using archive_write_open() directly.
691Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
692   single files from large uncompressed archives.
693
694Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
695Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
696   extended attribute code.
697Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
698   files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
699
700OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
701
702Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
703Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
704   of the storage format to simplify debugging.
705Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
706   spending much time on.
707Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
708   for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
709Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
710   file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
711Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
712   Pax attribute entry names.
713Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
714   appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
715   yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
716Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
717   minor bugfixes.
718Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
719Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
720Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
721   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
722Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
723   fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
724Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
725   pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
726Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
727   http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
728   including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
729   http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
730   libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
731Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
732    new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
733Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
734May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
735    all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
736May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
737    and pdtar archives.
738