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1248616SmmFeb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 2248616Smm 3248616SmmJan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 4248616Smm 5248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 6248616Smm 7248616SmmJan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 8248616Smm 9248616SmmDec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 10248616Smm 11248616SmmNov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 12248616Smm forks are stored in. 13248616Smm 14248616SmmOct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 15248616Smm 16248616SmmOct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 17248616Smm 18248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 19248616SmmOct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 20248616Smm 21248616SmmOct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 22248616Smm 23248616SmmSep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 24248616Smm (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 25248616Smm 26248616SmmApr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 27248616Smm 28238856SmmMar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 29228753Smm 30238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 31238856Smm http://libarchive.github.com/ 32238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 33238856Smm http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 34238856SmmFeb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 35238856Smm 36232153SmmDec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 37232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 38232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 39232153SmmDec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 40228753Smm 41232153SmmNov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 42232153Smm 43232153SmmNov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 44232153SmmNov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 45232153SmmNov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 46232153SmmNov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 47232153SmmNov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 48232153Smm 49232153SmmNov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 50232153Smm 51232153SmmNov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 52232153SmmSep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 53232153SmmAug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 54232153SmmAug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 55232153Smm will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 56232153SmmJun 26, 2011: RAR reader 57232153SmmJun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 58232153Smm handling of pax UTF-8 headers 59232153SmmApr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 60232153Smm support the old interfaces as wrappers 61232153SmmApr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 62232153SmmApr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 63232153SmmMar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 64232153SmmMar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 65232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 66232153SmmMar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 67232153Smm translating to/from user-specified locale 68232153SmmMar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 69232153SmmMar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 70232153Smm assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 71232153SmmFeb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 72232153SmmDec 22, 2010: CAB reader 73232153SmmDec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 74232153SmmJul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 75232153SmmJun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 76232153SmmJun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 77232153SmmJun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 78232153SmmJun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 79232153SmmMay 28, 2010: XAR writer 80232153SmmMay 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 81232153SmmMay 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 82232153SmmMay 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 83232153SmmMay 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 84232153SmmApr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 85232153SmmApr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 86228753SmmMar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 87228753SmmMar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 88232153SmmFeb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 89232153Smm results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 90232153SmmFeb 25, 2010: ISO writer 91232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 92232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 93232153SmmFeb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 94232153SmmFeb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 95232153SmmFeb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 96232153SmmFeb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 97232153SmmFeb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 98232153SmmFeb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 99232153SmmFeb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 100232153SmmJan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 101228753Smm 102228753SmmFeb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 103228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 104228753SmmJan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 105228753Smm 106228753SmmJan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 107228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 108228753SmmJan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 109228753SmmJan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 110228753Smm 111228753SmmDec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 112228753Smm 113228753SmmAug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 114228753SmmJul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 115228753SmmJul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 116228753SmmJun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 117228753SmmMay 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 118228753SmmMay 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 119228753Smm 120228753SmmApr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 121228753Smm 122228753SmmApr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 123228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 124228753SmmApr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 125228753Smm 126228753SmmApr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 127228753SmmApr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 128228753Smm 129228753SmmApr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 130228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 131228753Smm decompression if the library is built without suitable 132228753Smm libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 133228753Smm in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 134228753SmmApr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 135228753SmmMar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 136228753Smm more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 137228753SmmMar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 138228753SmmMar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 139228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 140228753SmmFeb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 141228753Smm All tests now pass. 142228753SmmFeb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 143228753SmmFeb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 144228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 145228753SmmFeb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 146228753SmmJan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 147228753SmmFeb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke. 148228753SmmJan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 149228753SmmJan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 150228753Smm extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 151228753Smm such system-specific knowledge. 152228753SmmJan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 153228753Smm read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 154228753Smm filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 155228753Smm Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 156228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 157228753Smm 158228753SmmDec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 159228753Smm server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 160228753Smm people to participate in libarchive development. 161228753Smm 162228753SmmDec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 163228753SmmDec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 164228753SmmDec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 165228753SmmDec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 166228753SmmNov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 167228753SmmNov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 168228753SmmNov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 169228753Smm 170228753SmmNov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 171228753Smm consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 172228753Smm from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 173228753Smm read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 174228753Smm passes and stacks read filters. 175228753SmmOct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 176228753SmmOct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 177228753SmmOct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 178228753Smm gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 179228753SmmSep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 180228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 181228753SmmSep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 182228753Smm some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 183228753Smm doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 184228753Smm enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 185228753Smm now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 186228753Smm you want LZMA read support. 187228753SmmSep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 188228753SmmJul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 189228753Smm This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 190228753Smm time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 191228753SmmJul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 192228753SmmJul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 193228753Smm 194228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 195228753Smm 196228753SmmJul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 197228753SmmJul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 198228753SmmJun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 199228753SmmJun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 200228753SmmJun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 201228753Smm 202228753SmmMay 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 203228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 204228753Smm 205228753SmmMay 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 206228753Smm for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 207228753Smm code contributions. 208228753Smm 209228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 210228753Smm thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 211228753Smm 212228753SmmMay 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 213228753Smm 214228753SmmMay 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 215228753Smm This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 216228753Smm Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 217228753Smm 218228753SmmMay 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 219228753Smm 220228753SmmMay 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 221228753Smm 222228753SmmMay 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 223228753Smm hardlinks have different permissions from original file 224228753Smm 225228753SmmApril 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 226228753Smm project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 227228753Smm The libarchive project can be browsed at 228228753Smm //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 229228753Smm Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 230228753Smm 231228753SmmMay 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 232228753Smm * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 233228753Smm * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 234228753Smm * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 235228753Smm measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 236228753Smm * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 237228753Smm distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 238228753Smm * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 239228753Smm * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults: 240228753Smm run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 241228753Smm * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 242228753Smm * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 243228753Smm * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 244228753Smm this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 245228753Smm * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 246228753Smm * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 247228753Smm * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 248228753Smm 249228753SmmMay 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 250228753Smm This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 251228753Smm 252228753SmmMar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 253228753Smm 254228753SmmMar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 255228753SmmMar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 256228753Smm ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 257228753Smm bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 258228753SmmMar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 259228753Smm all known hardlink strategies. 260228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 261228753SmmMar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 262228753SmmMar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 263228753Smm now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 264228753Smm files as they are needed. 265228753Smm 266228753SmmMar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 267228753Smm a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 268228753Smm with the UTF-8 fixes. 269228753Smm 270228753SmmFeb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 271228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 272228753Smm to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 273228753SmmFeb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 274228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 275228753SmmFeb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 276228753SmmFeb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 277228753Smm bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 278228753SmmFeb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 279228753SmmJan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 280228753Smm 281228753SmmJan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 282228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 283228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 284228753Smm bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 285228753Smm of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 286228753Smm issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 287228753Smm several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 288228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 289228753SmmJan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 290228753Smm hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 291228753Smm only with the last occurrence of a link.) 292228753Smm 293228753SmmDec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 294228753SmmDec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 295228753Smm 296228753SmmDec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 297228753SmmDec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 298228753SmmDec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 299228753Smm 300228753SmmDec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 301228753SmmDec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 302228753Smm pattern selection for -i and -it. 303228753Smm 304228753SmmDec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 305228753SmmDec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 306228753Smm Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 307228753Smm 308228753SmmDec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 309228753Smm 310228753SmmDec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 311228753SmmDec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 312228753SmmDec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 313228753Smm 314228753SmmDec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 315228753SmmDec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 316228753Smm 317228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 318228753SmmDec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 319228753Smm thanks to Samuli Suominen. 320228753Smm 321228753SmmDec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 322228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 323228753Smm libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 324228753Smm "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 325228753SmmDec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 326228753SmmDec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 327228753Smm 328228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 329228753Smm 330228753SmmDec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 331228753SmmDec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 332228753Smm man pages. 333228753Smm 334228753SmmOct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 335228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 336228753SmmOct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 337228753Smm archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 338228753SmmOct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 339228753Smm libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 340228753Smm 341228753SmmOct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 342228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 343228753Smm "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 344228753Smm by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 345228753Smm publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 346228753Smm mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 347228753SmmOct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 348228753Smm a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 349228753SmmOct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 350228753Smm broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 351228753SmmOct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 352228753Smm hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 353228753Smm 354228753SmmOct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 355228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 356228753SmmOct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 357228753Smm bsdtar.1 manpages. 358228753SmmOct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 359228753Smm to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 360228753Smm bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 361228753Smm 362228753SmmSep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 363228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 364228753Smm actually do the right things. 365228753SmmSep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 366228753Smm for non-regular files. 367228753SmmSep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 368228753Smm This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 369228753Smm that bsdtar has. 370228753Smm 371228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 372228753SmmSep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 373228753Smm fix was implemented incorrectly. 374228753Smm 375228753SmmSep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 376228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 377228753Smm block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 378228753SmmSep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 379228753Smm with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 380228753Smm instances of this same function. 381228753SmmSep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 382228753Smm 383228753SmmSep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 384228753SmmSep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 385228753Smm 386228753SmmSep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 387228753SmmAug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 388228753Smm (A little experimental still.) 389228753SmmAug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 390228753SmmAug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 391228753Smm an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 392228753Smm perm restore but don't request owner restore. 393228753SmmAug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 394228753Smm 395228753SmmAug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 396228753SmmAug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 397228753Smm Sonnenberger. 398228753SmmAug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 399228753Smm 400228753SmmJul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 401228753Smm 402228753SmmJul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 403228753SmmJul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 404228753Smm fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 405228753Smm http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 406228753Smm 407228753SmmMay 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 408228753SmmMay 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 409228753Smm missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 410228753Smm from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 411228753Smm EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 412228753Smm 413228753SmmMay 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 414228753SmmMay 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 415228753Smm entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 416228753Smm still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 417228753Smm worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 418228753Smm direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 419228753Smm required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 420228753Smm a reasonably complete test case. 421228753SmmMay 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 422228753Smm 423228753SmmMay 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 424228753SmmMay 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 425228753Smm problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 426228753SmmMay 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 427228753Smm node entries in tar archives. 428228753SmmMay 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 429228753Smm This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 430228753Smm of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 431228753Smm dissimilar systems. 432228753Smm 433228753SmmApr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 434228753SmmApr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 435228753Smm 436228753SmmApr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 437228753SmmApr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 438228753Smm (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 439228753Smm Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 440228753Smm 441228753SmmApr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 442228753SmmApr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 443228753Smm 444228753SmmApr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 445228753SmmApr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 446228753Smm format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 447228753Smm 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 448228753Smm code that actually touches the disk. 449228753Smm 450228753SmmApr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 451228753Smm Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 452228753Smm 453228753SmmApr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 454228753Smm 455228753SmmApr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 456228753SmmApr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 457228753Smm Not complete, but should prove helpful. 458228753SmmApr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 459228753Smm for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 460228753Smm well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 461228753Smm appreciated. 462228753Smm 463228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 464228753SmmApr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 465228753Smm 466228753SmmApr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 467228753SmmApr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 468228753Smm written to tar archives 469228753Smm 470228753SmmApr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 471228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 472228753SmmApr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 473228753Smm 474228753SmmApr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 475228753SmmApr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 476228753Smm 477228753SmmApr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 478228753SmmMar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 479228753Smm 480228753SmmMar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 481228753SmmMar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 482228753Smm 483228753SmmMar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 484228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 485228753Smm that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 486228753Smm The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 487228753Smm with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 488228753SmmMar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 489228753Smm 490228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 491228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 492228753Smm some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 493228753Smm If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 494228753SmmMar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 495228753Smm to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 496228753SmmMar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 497228753Smm a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 498228753Smm Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 499228753Smm 500228753SmmMar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 501228753SmmMar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 502228753Smm portion of the ACL support for now). 503228753SmmMar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 504228753Smm turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 505228753Smm libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 506228753Smm archives was unaffected.) 507228753Smm 508228753SmmMar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 509228753SmmMar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 510228753Smm Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 511228753Smm 512228753SmmFeb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 513228753SmmFeb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 514228753Smm whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 515228753Smm 516228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 517228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 518228753Smm Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the 519228753Smm broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 520228753Smm of this long-standing bug. 521228753Smm 522228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 523228753SmmFeb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 524228753Smm 525228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 526228753SmmFeb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 527228753Smm without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 528228753Smm 529228753SmmFeb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 530228753SmmFeb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 531228753Smm and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 532228753Smm but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 533228753Smm other tools and where they can be better optimized. 534228753Smm 535228753SmmFeb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 536228753SmmFeb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 537228753Smm of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 538228753Smm to SUID and SGID bits. 539228753Smm 540228753SmmJan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 541228753SmmJan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 542228753Smm distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 543228753Smm "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 544228753Smm 545228753SmmJan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 546228753SmmJan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 547228753Smm a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 548228753Smm you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 549228753Smm around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 550228753Smm want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 551228753Smm (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 552228753Smm 553228753SmmJan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 554228753SmmJan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 555228753Smm most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 556228753Smm Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 557228753Smm cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 558228753Smm the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 559228753SmmJan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 560228753Smm corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 561228753SmmJan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 562228753Smm very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 563228753Smm for pointing out these issues. 564228753Smm 565228753SmmSep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 566228753SmmSep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 567228753SmmSep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 568228753SmmSep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 569228753Smm it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 570228753Smm 571228753SmmAug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 572228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 573228753Smm are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 574228753Smm that needs to change. 575228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 576228753Smm They weren't returning any errors before. 577228753SmmAug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 578228753Smm Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 579228753Smm using archive_write_open() directly. 580228753SmmJul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 581228753Smm single files from large uncompressed archives. 582228753Smm 583228753SmmMar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 584228753SmmMar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 585228753Smm extended attribute code. 586228753SmmMar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 587228753Smm files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 588228753Smm 589228753SmmOLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 590228753Smm 591228753SmmMar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 592228753SmmMar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 593228753Smm of the storage format to simplify debugging. 594228753SmmMar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 595228753Smm spending much time on. 596228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 597228753Smm for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 598228753SmmMar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 599228753Smm file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 600228753SmmFeb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 601228753Smm Pax attribute entry names. 602228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 603228753Smm appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 604228753Smm yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 605228753SmmNov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 606228753Smm minor bugfixes. 607228753SmmOct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 608228753SmmAug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 609228753SmmApr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 610228753Smm http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 611228753SmmApr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 612228753Smm fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 613228753SmmMar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 614228753Smm pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 615228753SmmMar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 616228753Smm http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 617228753Smm including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 618228753Smm http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 619228753Smm libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 620228753SmmJan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 621228753Smm new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 622228753SmmJan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 623228753SmmMay 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 624228753Smm all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 625228753SmmMay 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 626228753Smm and pdtar archives. 627