NEWS revision 299529
1Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released 2 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 3 4Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released 5 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 6 7Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF 8 9Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. 10 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues 11 12Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck 13 14Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support 15 16Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. 17 18Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support 19 20May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension 21 22Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool 23 24Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support 25 26Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic 27 28Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats 29 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) 30 31Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added 32 33Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released 34 35Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. 36 37Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released 38 39Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released 40 41Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. 42 43Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource 44 forks are stored in. 45 46Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. 47 48Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. 49 50Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. 51Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. 52 53Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. 54 55Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. 56 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). 57 58Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. 59 60Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released 61 62Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. 63 http://libarchive.github.com/ 64Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. 65 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list 66Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. 67 68Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released 69Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD 70Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer 71Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader 72 73Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released 74 75Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader 76Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input 77Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries 78Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives 79Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows 80 81Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released 82 83Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x 84Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions 85Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs 86Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and 87 will disappear in libarchive 4.0. 88Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader 89Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x 90 handling of pax UTF-8 headers 91Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; 92 support the old interfaces as wrappers 93Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations 94Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. 95Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() 96Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames 97Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options 98Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support 99 translating to/from user-specified locale 100Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature 101Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad 102 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions 103Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms 104Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader 105Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader 106Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal 107Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility 108Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive 109Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive 110Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals 111May 28, 2010: XAR writer 112May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes 113May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support 114May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters 115May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname 116Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance 117Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format 118Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. 119Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed 120Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally 121 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() 122Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer 123Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. 124Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. 125Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t 126Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. 127Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters 128Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs 129Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers 130Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar 131Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar 132Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V 133 134Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released 135Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' 136Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin 137 138Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) 139Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW 140Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests 141Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails 142 143Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) 144 145Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released 146Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz 147Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 148Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. 149May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. 150May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. 151 152Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released 153 154Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released 155Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. 156Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test 157 158Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released 159Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test 160 161Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released 162Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for 163 decompression if the library is built without suitable 164 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN 165 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. 166Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. 167Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% 168 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. 169Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. 170Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. 171Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 172Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 173 All tests now pass. 174Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 175Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. 176Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. 177Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. 178Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. 179Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Bj��rn Jacke. 180Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. 181Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, 182 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require 183 such system-specific knowledge. 184Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, 185 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual 186 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the 187 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. 188Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. 189 190Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce 191 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more 192 people to participate in libarchive development. 193 194Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released 195Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released 196Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released 197Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released 198Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released 199Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released 200Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 201 202Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just 203 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking 204 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the 205 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple 206 passes and stacks read filters. 207Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. 208Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error 209Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), 210 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. 211Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive 212Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support 213Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have 214 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format 215 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet 216 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For 217 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if 218 you want LZMA read support. 219Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files 220Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. 221 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and 222 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). 223Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer 224Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support 225 226Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released 227 228Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released 229Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now 230Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead 231Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat 232Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. 233 234May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released 235May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format 236 237May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" 238 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for 239 code contributions. 240 241May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, 242 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. 243 244May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info 245 246May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. 247 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. 248 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. 249 250May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar 251 252May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements 253 254May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when 255 hardlinks have different permissions from original file 256 257April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD 258 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ 259 The libarchive project can be browsed at 260 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable 261 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr 262 263May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released 264 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes 265 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes 266 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about 267 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use 268 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about 269 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) 270 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames 271 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults: 272 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures 273 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin 274 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t 275 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; 276 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers 277 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together 278 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u 279 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h 280 281May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed 282 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. 283 284Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released 285 286Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released 287Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, 288 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before 289 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. 290Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling 291 all known hardlink strategies. 292Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. 293Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. 294Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they 295 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference 296 files as they are needed. 297 298Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for 299 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced 300 with the UTF-8 fixes. 301 302Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released 303Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted 304 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. 305Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. 306Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang 307Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. 308Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; 309 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. 310Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg 311Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. 312 313Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released 314Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. 315Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. 316 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format 317 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting 318 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered 319 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. 320Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. 321Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with 322 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body 323 only with the last occurrence of a link.) 324 325Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released 326Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. 327 328Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released 329Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. 330Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. 331 332Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released 333Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, 334 pattern selection for -i and -it. 335 336Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released 337Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, 338 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. 339 340Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released 341 342Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released 343Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline 344Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. 345 346Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released 347Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. 348 349Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released 350Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, 351 thanks to Samuli Suominen. 352 353Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released 354Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that 355 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of 356 "length at end" flags in ZIP files. 357Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. 358Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. 359 360Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released 361 362Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released 363Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for 364 man pages. 365 366Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released 367Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. 368Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the 369 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. 370Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: 371 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. 372 373Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released 374Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the 375 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time 376 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for 377 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar 378 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) 379Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly 380 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. 381Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was 382 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. 383Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I 384 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. 385 386Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released 387Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. 388Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and 389 bsdtar.1 manpages. 390Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try 391 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes 392 bsdtar extraction of zip archives. 393 394Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released 395Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options 396 actually do the right things. 397Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies 398 for non-regular files. 399Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. 400 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts 401 that bsdtar has. 402 403Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released 404Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() 405 fix was implemented incorrectly. 406 407Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released 408Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize 409 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. 410Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used 411 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other 412 instances of this same function. 413Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode 414 415Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released 416Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. 417 418Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released 419Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage 420 (A little experimental still.) 421Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. 422Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer 423 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request 424 perm restore but don't request owner restore. 425Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio 426 427Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released 428Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg 429 Sonnenberger. 430Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. 431 432Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released 433 434Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released 435Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and 436 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at 437 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc 438 439May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released 440May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some 441 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup 442 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an 443 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. 444 445May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released 446May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning 447 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is 448 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() 449 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but 450 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This 451 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has 452 a reasonably complete test case. 453May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. 454 455May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released 456May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch 457 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. 458May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device 459 node entries in tar archives. 460May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. 461 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch 462 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on 463 dissimilar systems. 464 465Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released 466Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. 467 468Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released 469Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries 470 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) 471 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. 472 473Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released 474Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X 475 476Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released 477Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the 478 format readers/writers. This should improve portability; 479 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in 480 code that actually touches the disk. 481 482Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released 483 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. 484 485Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released 486 487Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released 488Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. 489 Not complete, but should prove helpful. 490Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" 491 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet 492 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback 493 appreciated. 494 495Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released 496Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work 497 498Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released 499Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs 500 written to tar archives 501 502Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released 503Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. 504Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool 505 506Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released 507Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. 508 509Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released 510Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. 511 512Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released 513Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. 514 515Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released 516Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry 517 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. 518 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created 519 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. 520Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. 521 522Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released 523Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed 524 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. 525 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. 526Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough 527 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. 528Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when 529 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. 530 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. 531 532Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released 533Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent 534 portion of the ACL support for now). 535Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got 536 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and 537 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax 538 archives was unaffected.) 539 540Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released 541Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 542 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. 543 544Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released 545Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 546 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. 547 548Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released 549Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. 550 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petten�� for telling me about the 551 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause 552 of this long-standing bug. 553 554Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released 555Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). 556 557Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released 558Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, 559 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. 560 561Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released 562Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT 563 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, 564 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by 565 other tools and where they can be better optimized. 566 567Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released 568Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling 569 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating 570 to SUID and SGID bits. 571 572Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released 573Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a 574 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., 575 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" 576 577Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released 578Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides 579 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, 580 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive 581 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you 582 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups 583 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). 584 585Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released 586Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the 587 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. 588 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner 589 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect 590 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. 591Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially 592 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. 593Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle 594 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk 595 for pointing out these issues. 596 597Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released 598Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. 599Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. 600Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; 601 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic 602 603Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released 604Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these 605 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything 606 that needs to change. 607Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() 608 They weren't returning any errors before. 609Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set 610 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when 611 using archive_write_open() directly. 612Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting 613 single files from large uncompressed archives. 614 615Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released 616Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific 617 extended attribute code. 618Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other 619 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. 620 621OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES 622 623Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released 624Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign 625 of the storage format to simplify debugging. 626Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth 627 spending much time on. 628Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support 629 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). 630Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz 631 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. 632Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write 633 Pax attribute entry names. 634Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback 635 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() 636 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. 637Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, 638 minor bugfixes. 639Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. 640Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. 641Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: 642 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 643Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h 644 fix from Jaakko Heinonen. 645Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long 646 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). 647Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive 648 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ 649 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX 650 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses 651 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. 652Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, 653 new directory-walking code for bsdtar. 654Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. 655May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost 656 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. 657May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, 658 and pdtar archives. 659