NEWS revision 368986
1Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
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3Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
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5Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
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7May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
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9Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
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11Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
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13Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
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15Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
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17Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
18
19Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
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21Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
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23Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
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25Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
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27Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
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29May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
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31Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
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33Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
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35Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
36
37Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
38
39Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
40
41Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
42
43Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
44
45Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
46
47Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
48
49Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
50
51Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
52
53Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
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55Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
56
57Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
58    Security & Feature release
59
60Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
61    Security & Feature release
62
63Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
64
65Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
66
67Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
68    Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
69
70Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
71
72Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
73
74Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
75    Security release
76
77Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
78    This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
79
80May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
81
82Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
83    Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
84
85Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
86    This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
87
88Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
89
90Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
91    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
92
93Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
94
95Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
96
97Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
98
99Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
100
101May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
102
103Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
104
105Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
106
107Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
108
109Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
110     (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
111
112Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
113
114Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
115
116Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
117
118Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
119
120Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
121
122Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
123    
124Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
125    forks are stored in.
126
127Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
128
129Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
130
131Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.    
132Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
133
134Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
135    
136Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
137    (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
138    
139Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
140
141Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
142
143Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
144    http://libarchive.github.com/
145Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
146    http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
147Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
148
149Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
150Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
151Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
152Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
153
154Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
155
156Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
157Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
158Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
159Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
160Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
161
162Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
163
164Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
165Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
166Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
167Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
168   will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
169Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
170Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
171   handling of pax UTF-8 headers
172Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
173   support the old interfaces as wrappers
174Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
175Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
176Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
177Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
178Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
179Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
180   translating to/from user-specified locale
181Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
182Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
183   assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
184Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
185Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
186Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
187Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
188Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
189Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
190Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
191Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
192May 28, 2010: XAR writer
193May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
194May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
195May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
196May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
197Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
198Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
199Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
200Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
201Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
202      results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
203Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
204Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
205Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
206Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
207Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
208Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
209Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
210Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
211Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
212Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
213Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
214
215Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
216Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
217Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
218
219Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
220Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
221Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
222Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
223
224Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
225
226Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
227Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
228Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
229Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
230May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
231May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
232
233Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
234
235Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
236Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
237Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
238
239Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
240Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
241
242Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
243Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
244	decompression if the library is built without suitable
245	libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
246	in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
247Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
248Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
249	more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
250Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
251Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
252Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
253Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
254	All tests now pass.
255Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
256Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
257Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
258Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
259Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
260Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke.
261Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now	with pax format.
262Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
263	extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
264	such system-specific knowledge.
265Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
266	read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
267	filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
268	Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
269Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
270
271Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
272	server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
273	people to participate in libarchive development.
274
275Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
276Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
277Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
278Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
279Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
280Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
281Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
282
283Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
284	consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
285	from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
286	read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
287	passes and stacks read filters.
288Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
289Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
290Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
291	gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
292Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
293Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
294Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
295	some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
296	doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
297	enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
298	now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
299	you want LZMA read support.
300Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
301Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
302	This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
303	time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
304Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
305Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
306
307Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
308
309Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
310Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
311Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
312Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
313Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
314
315May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
316May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
317
318May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
319        for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
320        code contributions.
321
322May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
323        thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
324
325May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
326
327May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
328        This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
329        Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
330
331May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
332
333May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
334
335May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
336	hardlinks have different permissions from original file
337
338April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
339	project's Perforce repository: 	http://perforce.freebsd.org/
340	The libarchive project can be browsed at
341        //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
342        Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
343
344May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
345	* libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
346	* bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
347	* tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
348	  measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
349	* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
350	  distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
351	* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
352	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
353	  run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
354	* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
355	* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
356	* iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
357	  this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
358	* tar: allow -r -T to be used together
359	* tar: allow --format with -r or -u
360	* libarchive: Don't build archive.h
361
362May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
363	This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
364
365Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
366
367Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
368Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
369	ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
370	bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
371Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
372	all known hardlink strategies.
373Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
374Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
375Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
376	now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
377	files as they are needed.
378
379Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
380	a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
381	with the UTF-8 fixes.
382
383Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
384Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
385	to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
386Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
387Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
388Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
389Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
390	bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
391Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
392Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
393
394Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
395Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
396Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
397	bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
398	of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
399	issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
400	several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
401Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
402Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
403	hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
404	only with the last occurrence of a link.)
405
406Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
407Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
408
409Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
410Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
411Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
412
413Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
414Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
415	pattern selection for -i and -it.
416
417Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
418Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
419	Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
420
421Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
422
423Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
424Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
425Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
426
427Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
428Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
429
430Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
431Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
432	thanks to Samuli Suominen.
433
434Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
435Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
436	libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
437	"length at end" flags in ZIP files.
438Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
439Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
440
441Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
442
443Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
444Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
445	man pages.
446
447Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
448Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
449Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
450	archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
451Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
452	libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
453
454Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
455Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
456	"compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
457	by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
458	publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
459	mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
460Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
461	a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
462Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
463	broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
464Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
465	hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
466
467Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
468Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
469Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
470	bsdtar.1 manpages.
471Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
472	to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
473	bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
474
475Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
476Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
477	actually do the right things.
478Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
479	for non-regular files.
480Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
481	This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
482	that bsdtar has.
483
484Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
485Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
486	fix was implemented incorrectly.
487
488Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
489Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
490	block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
491Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
492	with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
493	instances of this same function.
494Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
495
496Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
497Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
498
499Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
500Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
501	(A little experimental still.)
502Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
503Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
504	an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
505	perm restore but don't request owner restore.
506Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
507
508Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
509Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
510	Sonnenberger.
511Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
512
513Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
514
515Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
516Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
517	fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
518	http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
519
520May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
521May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
522	missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
523	from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
524	EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
525
526May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
527May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
528	entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
529	still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
530	worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
531	direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
532	required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
533	a reasonably complete test case.
534May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
535
536May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
537May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
538	problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
539May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
540	node entries in tar archives.
541May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
542	This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
543	of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
544	dissimilar systems.
545
546Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
547Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
548
549Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
550Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
551	(Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
552	Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
553
554Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
555Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
556
557Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
558Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
559	format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
560	'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
561	code that actually touches the disk.
562
563Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
564	Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
565
566Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
567
568Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
569Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
570	Not complete, but should prove helpful.
571Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
572	for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
573	well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
574	appreciated.
575
576Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
577Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
578
579Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
580Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
581	written to tar archives
582
583Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
584Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
585Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
586
587Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
588Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
589
590Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
591Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
592
593Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
594Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
595
596Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
597Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
598    that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
599    The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
600    with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
601Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
602
603Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
604Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
605    some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
606    If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
607Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
608    to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
609Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
610    a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
611    Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
612
613Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
614Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
615    portion of the ACL support for now).
616Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
617    turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
618    libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
619    archives was unaffected.)
620
621Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
622Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
623    Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
624
625Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
626Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
627    whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
628
629Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
630Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
631    Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the
632    broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
633    of this long-standing bug.
634
635Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
636Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
637
638Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
639Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
640    without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
641
642Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
643Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
644    and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
645    but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
646    other tools and where they can be better optimized.
647
648Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
649Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
650    of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
651    to SUID and SGID bits.
652
653Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
654Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
655    distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
656    "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
657
658Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
659Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
660    a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
661    you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
662    around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
663    want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
664    (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
665
666Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
667Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
668    most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
669    Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
670    cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
671    the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
672Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
673    corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
674Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
675    very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
676    for pointing out these issues.
677
678Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
679Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
680Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
681Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
682    it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
683
684Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
685Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
686   are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
687   that needs to change.
688Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
689   They weren't returning any errors before.
690Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
691   Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
692   using archive_write_open() directly.
693Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
694   single files from large uncompressed archives.
695
696Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
697Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
698   extended attribute code.
699Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
700   files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
701
702OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
703
704Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
705Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
706   of the storage format to simplify debugging.
707Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
708   spending much time on.
709Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
710   for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
711Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
712   file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
713Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
714   Pax attribute entry names.
715Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
716   appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
717   yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
718Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
719   minor bugfixes.
720Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
721Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
722Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
723   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
724Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
725   fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
726Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
727   pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
728Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
729   http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
730   including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
731   http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
732   libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
733Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
734    new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
735Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
736May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
737    all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
738May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
739    and pdtar archives.
740