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  1. Sep 12, 2023: libarchive 3.7.2 released
  2. Jul 29, 2023: libarchive 3.7.1 released
  3. Jul 18, 2023: libarchive 3.7.0 released
  4. Jul 14, 2023: bsdunzip port from FreeBSD
  5. Dec 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released
  6. Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released
  7. Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released
  8. Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released
  9. Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
  10. Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
  11. Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
  12. Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
  13. May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
  14. Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
  15. Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
  16. Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
  17. Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
  18. Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
  19. Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
  20. Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
  21. Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
  22. Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
  23. Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
  24. May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
  25. Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
  26. Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
  27. Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
  28. Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
  29. Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
  30. Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
  31. Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
  32. Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
  33. Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
  34. Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
  35. Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
  36. Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
  37. Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
  38. Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
  39. Security & Feature release
  40. Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
  41. Security & Feature release
  42. Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
  43. Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
  44. Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
  45. Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
  46. Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
  47. Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
  48. Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
  49. Security release
  50. Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
  51. This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
  52. May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
  53. Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
  54. Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  55. Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
  56. This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  57. Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
  58. Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
  59. https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
  60. Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
  61. Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
  62. Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
  63. Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
  64. May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
  65. Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
  66. Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
  67. Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
  68. Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
  69. (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
  70. Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
  71. Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
  72. Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
  73. Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
  74. Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
  75. Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
  76. Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
  77. forks are stored in.
  78. Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
  79. Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
  80. Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
  81. Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
  82. Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
  83. Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
  84. (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
  85. Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
  86. Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
  87. Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
  88. http://libarchive.github.com/
  89. Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
  90. http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
  91. Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
  92. Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
  93. Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
  94. Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
  95. Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
  96. Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
  97. Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
  98. Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
  99. Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
  100. Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
  101. Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
  102. Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
  103. Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
  104. Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
  105. Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
  106. Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
  107. will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
  108. Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
  109. Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
  110. handling of pax UTF-8 headers
  111. Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
  112. support the old interfaces as wrappers
  113. Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
  114. Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
  115. Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
  116. Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
  117. Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
  118. Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
  119. translating to/from user-specified locale
  120. Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
  121. Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
  122. assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
  123. Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
  124. Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
  125. Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
  126. Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
  127. Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
  128. Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
  129. Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
  130. Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
  131. May 28, 2010: XAR writer
  132. May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
  133. May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
  134. May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
  135. May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
  136. Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
  137. Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
  138. Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
  139. Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
  140. Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
  141. results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
  142. Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
  143. Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
  144. Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
  145. Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
  146. Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
  147. Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
  148. Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
  149. Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
  150. Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
  151. Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
  152. Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
  153. Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
  154. Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
  155. Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
  156. Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
  157. Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
  158. Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
  159. Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
  160. Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
  161. Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
  162. Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
  163. Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
  164. Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
  165. May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
  166. May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
  167. Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
  168. Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
  169. Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
  170. Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
  171. Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
  172. Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
  173. Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
  174. Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
  175. decompression if the library is built without suitable
  176. libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
  177. in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
  178. Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
  179. Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
  180. more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
  181. Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
  182. Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
  183. Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
  184. Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
  185. All tests now pass.
  186. Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
  187. Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
  188. Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
  189. Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
  190. Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
  191. Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
  192. Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
  193. Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
  194. extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
  195. such system-specific knowledge.
  196. Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
  197. read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
  198. filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
  199. Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
  200. Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
  201. Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
  202. server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
  203. people to participate in libarchive development.
  204. Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
  205. Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
  206. Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
  207. Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
  208. Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
  209. Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
  210. Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
  211. Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
  212. consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
  213. from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
  214. read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
  215. passes and stacks read filters.
  216. Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
  217. Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
  218. Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
  219. gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
  220. Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
  221. Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
  222. Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
  223. some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
  224. doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
  225. enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
  226. now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
  227. you want LZMA read support.
  228. Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
  229. Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
  230. This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
  231. time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
  232. Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
  233. Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
  234. Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
  235. Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
  236. Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
  237. Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
  238. Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
  239. Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
  240. May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
  241. May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
  242. May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
  243. for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
  244. code contributions.
  245. May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
  246. thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
  247. May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
  248. May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
  249. This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
  250. Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
  251. May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
  252. May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
  253. May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
  254. hardlinks have different permissions from original file
  255. April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
  256. project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
  257. The libarchive project can be browsed at
  258. //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
  259. Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
  260. May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
  261. * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
  262. * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
  263. * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
  264. measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
  265. * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
  266. distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
  267. * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
  268. * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults:
  269. run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
  270. * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
  271. * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
  272. * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
  273. this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
  274. * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
  275. * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
  276. * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
  277. May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
  278. This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
  279. Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
  280. Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
  281. Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
  282. ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
  283. bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
  284. Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
  285. all known hardlink strategies.
  286. Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
  287. Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
  288. Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
  289. now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
  290. files as they are needed.
  291. Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
  292. a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
  293. with the UTF-8 fixes.
  294. Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
  295. Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
  296. to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
  297. Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
  298. Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
  299. Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
  300. Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
  301. bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
  302. Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
  303. Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
  304. Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
  305. Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
  306. Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
  307. bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
  308. of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
  309. issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
  310. several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
  311. Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
  312. Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
  313. hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
  314. only with the last occurrence of a link.)
  315. Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
  316. Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
  317. Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
  318. Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
  319. Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
  320. Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
  321. Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
  322. pattern selection for -i and -it.
  323. Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
  324. Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
  325. Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
  326. Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
  327. Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
  328. Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
  329. Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
  330. Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
  331. Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
  332. Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
  333. Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
  334. thanks to Samuli Suominen.
  335. Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
  336. Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
  337. libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
  338. "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
  339. Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
  340. Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
  341. Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
  342. Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
  343. Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
  344. man pages.
  345. Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
  346. Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
  347. Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
  348. archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
  349. Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
  350. libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
  351. Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
  352. Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
  353. "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
  354. by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
  355. publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
  356. mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
  357. Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
  358. a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
  359. Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
  360. broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
  361. Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
  362. hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
  363. Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
  364. Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
  365. Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
  366. bsdtar.1 manpages.
  367. Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
  368. to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
  369. bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
  370. Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
  371. Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
  372. actually do the right things.
  373. Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
  374. for non-regular files.
  375. Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
  376. This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
  377. that bsdtar has.
  378. Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
  379. Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
  380. fix was implemented incorrectly.
  381. Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
  382. Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
  383. block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
  384. Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
  385. with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
  386. instances of this same function.
  387. Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
  388. Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
  389. Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
  390. Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
  391. Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
  392. (A little experimental still.)
  393. Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
  394. Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
  395. an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
  396. perm restore but don't request owner restore.
  397. Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
  398. Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
  399. Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
  400. Sonnenberger.
  401. Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
  402. Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
  403. Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
  404. Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
  405. fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
  406. http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
  407. May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
  408. May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
  409. missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
  410. from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
  411. EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
  412. May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
  413. May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
  414. entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
  415. still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
  416. worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
  417. direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
  418. required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
  419. a reasonably complete test case.
  420. May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
  421. May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
  422. May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
  423. problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
  424. May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
  425. node entries in tar archives.
  426. May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
  427. This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
  428. of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
  429. dissimilar systems.
  430. Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
  431. Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
  432. Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
  433. Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
  434. (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
  435. Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
  436. Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
  437. Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
  438. Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
  439. Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
  440. format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
  441. 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
  442. code that actually touches the disk.
  443. Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
  444. Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
  445. Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
  446. Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
  447. Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
  448. Not complete, but should prove helpful.
  449. Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
  450. for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
  451. well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
  452. appreciated.
  453. Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
  454. Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
  455. Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
  456. Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
  457. written to tar archives
  458. Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
  459. Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
  460. Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
  461. Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
  462. Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
  463. Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
  464. Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
  465. Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
  466. Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
  467. Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
  468. Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
  469. that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
  470. The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
  471. with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
  472. Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
  473. Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
  474. Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
  475. some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
  476. If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
  477. Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
  478. to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
  479. Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
  480. a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
  481. Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
  482. Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
  483. Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
  484. portion of the ACL support for now).
  485. Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
  486. turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
  487. libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
  488. archives was unaffected.)
  489. Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
  490. Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
  491. Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
  492. Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
  493. Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
  494. whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
  495. Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
  496. Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
  497. Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
  498. broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
  499. of this long-standing bug.
  500. Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
  501. Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
  502. Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
  503. Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
  504. without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
  505. Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
  506. Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
  507. and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
  508. but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
  509. other tools and where they can be better optimized.
  510. Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
  511. Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
  512. of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
  513. to SUID and SGID bits.
  514. Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
  515. Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
  516. distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
  517. "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
  518. Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
  519. Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
  520. a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
  521. you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
  522. around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
  523. want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
  524. (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
  525. Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
  526. Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
  527. most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
  528. Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
  529. cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
  530. the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
  531. Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
  532. corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
  533. Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
  534. very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
  535. for pointing out these issues.
  536. Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
  537. Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
  538. Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
  539. Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
  540. it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
  541. Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
  542. Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
  543. are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
  544. that needs to change.
  545. Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
  546. They weren't returning any errors before.
  547. Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
  548. Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
  549. using archive_write_open() directly.
  550. Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
  551. single files from large uncompressed archives.
  552. Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
  553. Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
  554. extended attribute code.
  555. Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
  556. files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
  557. OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
  558. Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
  559. Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
  560. of the storage format to simplify debugging.
  561. Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
  562. spending much time on.
  563. Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
  564. for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
  565. Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
  566. file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
  567. Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
  568. Pax attribute entry names.
  569. Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
  570. appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
  571. yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
  572. Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
  573. minor bugfixes.
  574. Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
  575. Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
  576. Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
  577. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
  578. Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
  579. fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
  580. Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
  581. pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
  582. Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
  583. http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
  584. including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
  585. http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
  586. libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
  587. Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
  588. new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
  589. Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
  590. May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
  591. all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
  592. May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
  593. and pdtar archives.