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