2 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
3 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
4 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
6 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
8 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
9 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
10 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
12 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
13 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
15 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
16 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
17 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
19 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
20 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
21 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
22 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
23 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
24 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
26 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
28 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
29 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
32 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
33 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
34 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
35 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
36 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
37 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
39 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
40 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
41 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
42 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
43 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
44 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
45 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
46 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
47 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
48 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
49 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
50 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
52 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
53 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
54 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
56 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
57 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
58 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
60 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
61 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
62 actually do the right things.
63 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
64 for non-regular files.
65 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
66 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
69 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
70 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
71 fix was implemented incorrectly.
73 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
74 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
75 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
76 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
77 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
78 instances of this same function.
79 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
81 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
82 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
84 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
85 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
86 (A little experimental still.)
87 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
88 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
89 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
90 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
91 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
93 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
94 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
96 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
98 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
100 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
101 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
102 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
103 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
105 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
106 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
107 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
108 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
109 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
111 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
112 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
113 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
114 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
115 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
116 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
117 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
118 a reasonably complete test case.
119 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
121 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
122 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
123 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
124 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
125 node entries in tar archives.
126 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
127 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
128 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
131 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
132 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
134 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
135 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
136 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
137 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
139 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
140 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
142 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
143 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
144 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
145 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
146 code that actually touches the disk.
148 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
149 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
151 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
153 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
154 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
155 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
156 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
157 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
158 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
161 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
162 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
164 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
165 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
166 written to tar archives
168 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
169 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
170 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
172 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
173 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
175 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
176 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
178 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
179 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
181 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
182 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
183 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
184 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
185 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
186 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
188 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
189 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
190 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
191 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
192 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
193 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
194 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
195 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
196 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
198 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
199 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
200 portion of the ACL support for now).
201 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
202 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
203 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
204 archives was unaffected.)
206 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
207 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
208 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
210 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
211 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
212 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
214 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
215 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
216 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
217 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
218 of this long-standing bug.
220 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
221 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
223 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
224 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
225 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
227 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
228 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
229 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
230 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
231 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
233 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
234 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
235 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
236 to SUID and SGID bits.
238 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
239 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
240 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
241 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
243 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
244 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
245 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
246 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
247 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
248 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
249 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
251 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
252 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
253 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
254 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
255 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
256 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
257 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
258 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
259 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
260 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
261 for pointing out these issues.
263 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
264 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
265 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
266 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
267 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
269 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
270 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
271 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
272 that needs to change.
273 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
274 They weren't returning any errors before.
275 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
276 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
277 using archive_write_open() directly.
278 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
279 single files from large uncompressed archives.
281 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
282 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
283 extended attribute code.
284 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
285 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
289 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
290 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
291 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
292 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
293 spending much time on.
294 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
295 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
296 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
297 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
298 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
299 Pax attribute entry names.
300 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
301 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
302 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
303 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
305 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
306 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
307 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
308 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
309 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
310 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
311 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
312 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
313 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
314 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
315 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
316 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
317 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
318 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
319 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
320 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
321 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
322 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
323 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,