NEWS revision 228753
1Feb 05, 2011: Fix issue 134: Improve handling of open failures 2Dec 06, 2010: Fix issue 119: Relax ISO verification 3Dec 06, 2010: Fix issue 121: mtree parsing 4Dec 05, 2010: Fix extraction of GNU tar 'D' directory entries 5Dec 05, 2010: Be less demanding in LZMA/XZ compression tests 6Jun 30, 2010: libarchive 2.8.4 released 7Jun 30, 2010: Improved reliability of hash function detection 8Jun 30, 2010: Fix issues on ancient FreeBSD, QNX, ancient NetBSD and Minix 9 10Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.3 released 11Mar 14, 2010: Symlink dereference fix for Linux broke the build there; corrected. 12 13Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.2 released 14Mar 12, 2010: Fix NULL deference for short self-extracting zip archives. 15Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 16Mar 07, 2010: Better detection of SHA2 support for old OpenSSL versions. 17Mar 07, 2010: Fix parsing of input files for bsdtar -T. 18Mar 07, 2010: Do not leak setup_xattr into the global namespace. 19 20Mar 06, 2010: libarchive 2.8.1 released 21Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 22Mar 03, 2010: Use O_BINARY opening files in bsdtar 23Mar 02, 2010: Include missing archive_crc32.h 24Mar 01, 2010: Correctly include iconv.h required by libxml2. 25 26Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 27Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 28Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 29 30Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 31Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 32Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 33Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 34 35Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 36 37Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 38Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 39Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 40Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 41May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 42May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 43 44Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 45 46Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 47Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 48Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 49 50Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 51Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 52 53Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 54Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 55 decompression if the library is built without suitable 56 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 57 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 58Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 59Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 60 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 61Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 62Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 63Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 64Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 65 All tests now pass. 66Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 67Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 68Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 69Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 70Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 71Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke. 72Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 73Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 74 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 75 such system-specific knowledge. 76Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 77 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 78 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 79 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 80Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 81 82Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 83 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 84 people to participate in libarchive development. 85 86Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 87Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 88Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 89Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 90Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 91Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 92Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 93 94Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 95 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 96 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 97 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 98 passes and stacks read filters. 99Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 100Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 101Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 102 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 103Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 104Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 105Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 106 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 107 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 108 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 109 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 110 you want LZMA read support. 111Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 112Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 113 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 114 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 115Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 116Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 117 118Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 119 120Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 121Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 122Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 123Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 124Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 125 126May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 127May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 128 129May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 130 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 131 code contributions. 132 133May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 134 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 135 136May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 137 138May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 139 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 140 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 141 142May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 143 144May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 145 146May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 147 hardlinks have different permissions from original file 148 149April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 150 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 151 The libarchive project can be browsed at 152 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 153 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 154 155May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 156 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 157 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 158 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 159 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 160 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 161 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 162 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 163 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults: 164 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 165 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 166 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 167 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 168 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 169 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 170 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 171 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 172 173May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 174 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 175 176Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 177 178Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 179Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 180 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 181 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 182Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 183 all known hardlink strategies. 184Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 185Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 186Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 187 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 188 files as they are needed. 189 190Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 191 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 192 with the UTF-8 fixes. 193 194Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 195Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 196 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 197Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 198Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 199Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 200Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 201 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 202Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 203Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 204 205Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 206Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 207Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 208 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 209 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 210 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 211 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 212Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 213Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 214 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 215 only with the last occurrence of a link.) 216 217Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 218Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 219 220Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 221Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 222Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 223 224Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 225Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 226 pattern selection for -i and -it. 227 228Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 229Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 230 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 231 232Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 233 234Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 235Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 236Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 237 238Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 239Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 240 241Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 242Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 243 thanks to Samuli Suominen. 244 245Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 246Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 247 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 248 "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 249Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 250Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 251 252Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 253 254Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 255Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 256 man pages. 257 258Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 259Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 260Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 261 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 262Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 263 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 264 265Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 266Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 267 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 268 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 269 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 270 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 271Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 272 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 273Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 274 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 275Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 276 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 277 278Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 279Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 280Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 281 bsdtar.1 manpages. 282Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 283 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 284 bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 285 286Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 287Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 288 actually do the right things. 289Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 290 for non-regular files. 291Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 292 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 293 that bsdtar has. 294 295Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 296Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 297 fix was implemented incorrectly. 298 299Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 300Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 301 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 302Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 303 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 304 instances of this same function. 305Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 306 307Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 308Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 309 310Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 311Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 312 (A little experimental still.) 313Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 314Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 315 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 316 perm restore but don't request owner restore. 317Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 318 319Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 320Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 321 Sonnenberger. 322Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 323 324Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 325 326Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 327Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 328 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 329 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 330 331May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 332May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 333 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 334 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 335 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 336 337May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 338May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 339 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 340 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 341 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 342 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 343 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 344 a reasonably complete test case. 345May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 346 347May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 348May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 349 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 350May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 351 node entries in tar archives. 352May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 353 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 354 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 355 dissimilar systems. 356 357Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 358Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 359 360Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 361Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 362 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 363 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 364 365Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 366Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 367 368Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 369Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 370 format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 371 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 372 code that actually touches the disk. 373 374Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 375 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 376 377Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 378 379Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 380Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 381 Not complete, but should prove helpful. 382Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 383 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 384 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 385 appreciated. 386 387Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 388Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 389 390Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 391Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 392 written to tar archives 393 394Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 395Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 396Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 397 398Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 399Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 400 401Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 402Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 403 404Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 405Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 406 407Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 408Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 409 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 410 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 411 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 412Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 413 414Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 415Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 416 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 417 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 418Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 419 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 420Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 421 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 422 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 423 424Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 425Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 426 portion of the ACL support for now). 427Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 428 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 429 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 430 archives was unaffected.) 431 432Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 433Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 434 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 435 436Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 437Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 438 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 439 440Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 441Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 442 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the 443 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 444 of this long-standing bug. 445 446Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 447Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 448 449Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 450Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 451 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 452 453Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 454Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 455 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 456 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 457 other tools and where they can be better optimized. 458 459Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 460Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 461 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 462 to SUID and SGID bits. 463 464Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 465Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 466 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 467 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 468 469Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 470Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 471 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 472 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 473 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 474 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 475 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 476 477Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 478Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 479 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 480 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 481 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 482 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 483Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 484 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 485Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 486 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 487 for pointing out these issues. 488 489Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 490Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 491Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 492Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 493 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 494 495Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 496Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 497 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 498 that needs to change. 499Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 500 They weren't returning any errors before. 501Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 502 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 503 using archive_write_open() directly. 504Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 505 single files from large uncompressed archives. 506 507Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 508Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 509 extended attribute code. 510Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 511 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 512 513OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 514 515Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 516Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 517 of the storage format to simplify debugging. 518Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 519 spending much time on. 520Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 521 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 522Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 523 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 524Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 525 Pax attribute entry names. 526Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 527 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 528 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 529Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 530 minor bugfixes. 531Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 532Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 533Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 534 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 535Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 536 fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 537Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 538 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 539Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 540 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 541 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 542 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 543 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 544Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 545 new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 546Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 547May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 548 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 549May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 550 and pdtar archives. 551