NEWS revision 370535
1Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
2
3Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
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5Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
6
7Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
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9May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
10
11Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
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13Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
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15Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
16
17Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
18
19Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
20
21Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
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23Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
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25Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
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27Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
28
29Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
30
31May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
32
33Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
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35Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
36
37Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
38
39Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
40
41Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
42
43Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
44
45Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
46
47Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
48
49Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
50
51Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
52
53Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
54
55Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
56
57Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
58
59Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
60    Security & Feature release
61
62Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
63    Security & Feature release
64
65Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
66
67Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
68
69Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
70    Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
71
72Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
73
74Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
75
76Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
77    Security release
78
79Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
80    This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
81
82May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
83
84Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
85    Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
86
87Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
88    This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
89
90Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
91
92Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
93    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
94
95Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
96
97Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
98
99Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
100
101Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
102
103May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
104
105Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
106
107Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
108
109Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
110
111Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
112     (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
113
114Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
115
116Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
117
118Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
119
120Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
121
122Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
123
124Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
125    
126Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
127    forks are stored in.
128
129Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
130
131Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
132
133Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.    
134Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
135
136Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
137    
138Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
139    (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
140    
141Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
142
143Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
144
145Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
146    http://libarchive.github.com/
147Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
148    http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
149Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
150
151Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
152Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
153Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
154Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
155
156Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
157
158Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
159Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
160Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
161Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
162Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
163
164Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
165
166Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
167Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
168Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
169Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
170   will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
171Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
172Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
173   handling of pax UTF-8 headers
174Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
175   support the old interfaces as wrappers
176Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
177Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
178Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
179Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
180Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
181Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
182   translating to/from user-specified locale
183Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
184Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
185   assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
186Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
187Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
188Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
189Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
190Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
191Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
192Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
193Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
194May 28, 2010: XAR writer
195May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
196May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
197May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
198May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
199Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
200Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
201Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
202Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
203Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
204      results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
205Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
206Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
207Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
208Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
209Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
210Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
211Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
212Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
213Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
214Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
215Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
216
217Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
218Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
219Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
220
221Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
222Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
223Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
224Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
225
226Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
227
228Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
229Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
230Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
231Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
232May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
233May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
234
235Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
236
237Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
238Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
239Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
240
241Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
242Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
243
244Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
245Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
246	decompression if the library is built without suitable
247	libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
248	in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
249Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
250Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
251	more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
252Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
253Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
254Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
255Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
256	All tests now pass.
257Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
258Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
259Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
260Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
261Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
262Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke.
263Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now	with pax format.
264Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
265	extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
266	such system-specific knowledge.
267Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
268	read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
269	filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
270	Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
271Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
272
273Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
274	server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
275	people to participate in libarchive development.
276
277Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
278Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
279Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
280Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
281Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
282Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
283Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
284
285Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
286	consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
287	from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
288	read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
289	passes and stacks read filters.
290Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
291Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
292Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
293	gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
294Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
295Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
296Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
297	some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
298	doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
299	enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
300	now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
301	you want LZMA read support.
302Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
303Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
304	This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
305	time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
306Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
307Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
308
309Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
310
311Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
312Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
313Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
314Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
315Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
316
317May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
318May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
319
320May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
321        for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
322        code contributions.
323
324May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
325        thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
326
327May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
328
329May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
330        This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
331        Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
332
333May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
334
335May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
336
337May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
338	hardlinks have different permissions from original file
339
340April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
341	project's Perforce repository: 	http://perforce.freebsd.org/
342	The libarchive project can be browsed at
343        //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
344        Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
345
346May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
347	* libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
348	* bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
349	* tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
350	  measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
351	* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
352	  distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
353	* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
354	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
355	  run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
356	* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
357	* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
358	* iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
359	  this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
360	* tar: allow -r -T to be used together
361	* tar: allow --format with -r or -u
362	* libarchive: Don't build archive.h
363
364May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
365	This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
366
367Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
368
369Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
370Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
371	ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
372	bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
373Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
374	all known hardlink strategies.
375Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
376Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
377Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
378	now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
379	files as they are needed.
380
381Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
382	a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
383	with the UTF-8 fixes.
384
385Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
386Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
387	to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
388Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
389Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
390Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
391Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
392	bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
393Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
394Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
395
396Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
397Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
398Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
399	bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
400	of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
401	issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
402	several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
403Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
404Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
405	hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
406	only with the last occurrence of a link.)
407
408Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
409Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
410
411Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
412Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
413Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
414
415Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
416Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
417	pattern selection for -i and -it.
418
419Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
420Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
421	Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
422
423Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
424
425Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
426Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
427Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
428
429Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
430Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
431
432Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
433Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
434	thanks to Samuli Suominen.
435
436Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
437Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
438	libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
439	"length at end" flags in ZIP files.
440Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
441Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
442
443Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
444
445Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
446Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
447	man pages.
448
449Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
450Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
451Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
452	archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
453Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
454	libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
455
456Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
457Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
458	"compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
459	by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
460	publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
461	mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
462Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
463	a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
464Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
465	broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
466Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
467	hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
468
469Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
470Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
471Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
472	bsdtar.1 manpages.
473Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
474	to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
475	bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
476
477Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
478Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
479	actually do the right things.
480Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
481	for non-regular files.
482Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
483	This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
484	that bsdtar has.
485
486Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
487Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
488	fix was implemented incorrectly.
489
490Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
491Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
492	block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
493Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
494	with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
495	instances of this same function.
496Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
497
498Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
499Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
500
501Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
502Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
503	(A little experimental still.)
504Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
505Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
506	an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
507	perm restore but don't request owner restore.
508Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
509
510Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
511Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
512	Sonnenberger.
513Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
514
515Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
516
517Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
518Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
519	fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
520	http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
521
522May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
523May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
524	missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
525	from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
526	EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
527
528May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
529May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
530	entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
531	still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
532	worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
533	direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
534	required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
535	a reasonably complete test case.
536May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
537
538May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
539May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
540	problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
541May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
542	node entries in tar archives.
543May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
544	This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
545	of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
546	dissimilar systems.
547
548Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
549Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
550
551Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
552Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
553	(Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
554	Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
555
556Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
557Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
558
559Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
560Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
561	format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
562	'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
563	code that actually touches the disk.
564
565Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
566	Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
567
568Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
569
570Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
571Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
572	Not complete, but should prove helpful.
573Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
574	for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
575	well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
576	appreciated.
577
578Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
579Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
580
581Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
582Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
583	written to tar archives
584
585Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
586Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
587Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
588
589Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
590Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
591
592Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
593Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
594
595Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
596Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
597
598Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
599Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
600    that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
601    The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
602    with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
603Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
604
605Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
606Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
607    some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
608    If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
609Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
610    to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
611Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
612    a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
613    Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
614
615Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
616Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
617    portion of the ACL support for now).
618Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
619    turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
620    libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
621    archives was unaffected.)
622
623Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
624Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
625    Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
626
627Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
628Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
629    whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
630
631Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
632Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
633    Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the
634    broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
635    of this long-standing bug.
636
637Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
638Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
639
640Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
641Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
642    without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
643
644Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
645Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
646    and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
647    but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
648    other tools and where they can be better optimized.
649
650Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
651Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
652    of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
653    to SUID and SGID bits.
654
655Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
656Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
657    distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
658    "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
659
660Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
661Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
662    a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
663    you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
664    around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
665    want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
666    (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
667
668Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
669Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
670    most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
671    Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
672    cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
673    the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
674Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
675    corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
676Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
677    very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
678    for pointing out these issues.
679
680Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
681Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
682Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
683Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
684    it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
685
686Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
687Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
688   are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
689   that needs to change.
690Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
691   They weren't returning any errors before.
692Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
693   Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
694   using archive_write_open() directly.
695Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
696   single files from large uncompressed archives.
697
698Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
699Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
700   extended attribute code.
701Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
702   files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
703
704OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
705
706Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
707Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
708   of the storage format to simplify debugging.
709Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
710   spending much time on.
711Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
712   for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
713Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
714   file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
715Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
716   Pax attribute entry names.
717Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
718   appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
719   yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
720Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
721   minor bugfixes.
722Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
723Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
724Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
725   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
726Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
727   fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
728Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
729   pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
730Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
731   http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
732   including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
733   http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
734   libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
735Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
736    new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
737Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
738May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
739    all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
740May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
741    and pdtar archives.
742