NEWS

   1 Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
   2
   3 Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
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   5 Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
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   7 Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
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   9 May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
  10
  11 Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
  12
  13 Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
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  15 Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
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  17 Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
  18
  19 Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
  20
  21 Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
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  23 Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
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  25 Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
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  27 Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
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  29 Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
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  31 May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
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  33 Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
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  35 Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
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  37 Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
  38
  39 Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
  40
  41 Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
  42
  43 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
  44
  45 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
  46
  47 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
  48
  49 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
  50
  51 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
  52
  53 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
  54
  55 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
  56
  57 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
  58
  59 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
  60     Security & Feature release
  61
  62 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
  63     Security & Feature release
  64
  65 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
  66
  67 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
  68
  69 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
  70     Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
  71
  72 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
  73
  74 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
  75
  76 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
  77     Security release
  78
  79 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
  80     This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
  81
  82 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
  83
  84 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
  85     Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  86
  87 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
  88     This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  89
  90 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
  91
  92 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
  93     https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
  94
  95 Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
  96
  97 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
  98
  99 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
 100
 101 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
 102
 103 May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
 104
 105 Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
 106
 107 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
 108
 109 Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
 110
 111 Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
 112      (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
 113
 114 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
 115
 116 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
 117
 118 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
 119
 120 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
 121
 122 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
 123
 124 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
 125
 126 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
 127     forks are stored in.
 128
 129 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
 130
 131 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
 132
 133 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
 134 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
 135
 136 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
 137
 138 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
 139     (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
 140
 141 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
 142
 143 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
 144
 145 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
 146     http://libarchive.github.com/
 147 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
 148     http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
 149 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
 150
 151 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
 152 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
 153 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
 154 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
 155
 156 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
 157
 158 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
 159 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
 160 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
 161 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
 162 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
 163
 164 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
 165
 166 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
 167 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
 168 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
 169 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
 170    will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
 171 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
 172 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
 173    handling of pax UTF-8 headers
 174 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
 175    support the old interfaces as wrappers
 176 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
 177 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
 178 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
 179 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
 180 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
 181 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
 182    translating to/from user-specified locale
 183 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
 184 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
 185    assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
 186 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
 187 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
 188 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
 189 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
 190 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
 191 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
 192 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
 193 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
 194 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
 195 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
 196 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
 197 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
 198 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
 199 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
 200 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
 201 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
 202 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
 203 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
 204       results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
 205 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
 206 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
 207 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
 208 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
 209 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
 210 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
 211 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
 212 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
 213 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
 214 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
 215 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
 216
 217 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
 218 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
 219 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
 220
 221 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
 222 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
 223 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
 224 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
 225
 226 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
 227
 228 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
 229 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
 230 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
 231 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
 232 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
 233 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
 234
 235 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
 236
 237 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
 238 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
 239 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
 240
 241 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
 242 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
 243
 244 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
 245 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
 246         decompression if the library is built without suitable
 247         libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
 248         in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
 249 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
 250 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
 251         more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
 252 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
 253 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
 254 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 255 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 256         All tests now pass.
 257 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
 258 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
 259 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
 260 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
 261 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
 262 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
 263 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
 264 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
 265         extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
 266         such system-specific knowledge.
 267 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
 268         read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
 269         filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
 270         Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
 271 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 272
 273 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
 274         server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
 275         people to participate in libarchive development.
 276
 277 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
 278 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
 279 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
 280 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
 281 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
 282 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
 283 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
 284
 285 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
 286         consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
 287         from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
 288         read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
 289         passes and stacks read filters.
 290 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
 291 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
 292 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
 293         gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
 294 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
 295 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
 296 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
 297         some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
 298         doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
 299         enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
 300         now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
 301         you want LZMA read support.
 302 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
 303 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
 304         This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
 305         time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
 306 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
 307 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
 308
 309 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
 310
 311 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
 312 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
 313 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
 314 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
 315 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
 316
 317 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
 318 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
 319
 320 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
 321         for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
 322         code contributions.
 323
 324 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
 325         thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
 326
 327 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
 328
 329 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
 330         This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
 331         Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
 332
 333 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
 334
 335 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
 336
 337 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
 338         hardlinks have different permissions from original file
 339
 340 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
 341         project's Perforce repository:  http://perforce.freebsd.org/
 342         The libarchive project can be browsed at
 343         //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
 344         Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
 345
 346 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
 347         * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
 348         * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
 349         * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
 350           measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
 351         * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
 352           distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
 353         * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
 354         * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
 355           run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
 356         * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
 357         * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
 358         * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
 359           this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
 360         * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
 361         * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
 362         * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
 363
 364 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
 365         This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
 366
 367 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
 368
 369 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
 370 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
 371         ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
 372         bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
 373 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
 374         all known hardlink strategies.
 375 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 376 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 377 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
 378         now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
 379         files as they are needed.
 380
 381 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
 382         a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
 383         with the UTF-8 fixes.
 384
 385 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
 386 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
 387         to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
 388 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
 389 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
 390 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
 391 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
 392         bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
 393 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
 394 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
 395
 396 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
 397 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
 398 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
 399         bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
 400         of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
 401         issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
 402         several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
 403 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
 404 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
 405         hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
 406         only with the last occurrence of a link.)
 407
 408 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
 409 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
 410
 411 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
 412 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
 413 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
 414
 415 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
 416 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
 417         pattern selection for -i and -it.
 418
 419 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
 420 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
 421         Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
 422
 423 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
 424
 425 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
 426 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
 427 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
 428
 429 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
 430 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
 431
 432 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
 433 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
 434         thanks to Samuli Suominen.
 435
 436 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
 437 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
 438         libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
 439         "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
 440 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
 441 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
 442
 443 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
 444
 445 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
 446 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
 447         man pages.
 448
 449 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
 450 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
 451 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
 452         archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
 453 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
 454         libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
 455
 456 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
 457 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
 458         "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
 459         by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
 460         publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
 461         mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
 462 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
 463         a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
 464 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
 465         broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
 466 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
 467         hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
 468
 469 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
 470 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
 471 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
 472         bsdtar.1 manpages.
 473 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
 474         to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
 475         bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
 476
 477 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
 478 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
 479         actually do the right things.
 480 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
 481         for non-regular files.
 482 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
 483         This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
 484         that bsdtar has.
 485
 486 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
 487 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
 488         fix was implemented incorrectly.
 489
 490 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
 491 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
 492         block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
 493 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
 494         with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
 495         instances of this same function.
 496 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
 497
 498 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
 499 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
 500
 501 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
 502 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
 503         (A little experimental still.)
 504 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
 505 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
 506         an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
 507         perm restore but don't request owner restore.
 508 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
 509
 510 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
 511 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
 512         Sonnenberger.
 513 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
 514
 515 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
 516
 517 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
 518 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
 519         fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
 520         http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
 521
 522 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
 523 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
 524         missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
 525         from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
 526         EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
 527
 528 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
 529 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
 530         entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
 531         still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
 532         worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
 533         direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
 534         required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
 535         a reasonably complete test case.
 536 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
 537
 538 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
 539 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
 540         problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
 541 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
 542         node entries in tar archives.
 543 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
 544         This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
 545         of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
 546         dissimilar systems.
 547
 548 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
 549 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
 550
 551 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
 552 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
 553         (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
 554         Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
 555
 556 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
 557 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
 558
 559 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
 560 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
 561         format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
 562         'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
 563         code that actually touches the disk.
 564
 565 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
 566         Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
 567
 568 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
 569
 570 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
 571 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
 572         Not complete, but should prove helpful.
 573 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
 574         for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
 575         well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
 576         appreciated.
 577
 578 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
 579 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
 580
 581 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
 582 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
 583         written to tar archives
 584
 585 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
 586 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
 587 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
 588
 589 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
 590 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
 591
 592 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
 593 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
 594
 595 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
 596 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
 597
 598 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
 599 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
 600     that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
 601     The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
 602     with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
 603 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
 604
 605 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
 606 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
 607     some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
 608     If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
 609 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
 610     to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
 611 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
 612     a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
 613     Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
 614
 615 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
 616 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
 617     portion of the ACL support for now).
 618 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
 619     turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
 620     libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
 621     archives was unaffected.)
 622
 623 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
 624 Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
 625     Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
 626
 627 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
 628 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
 629     whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
 630
 631 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
 632 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
 633     Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
 634     broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
 635     of this long-standing bug.
 636
 637 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
 638 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
 639
 640 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
 641 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
 642     without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
 643
 644 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
 645 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
 646     and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
 647     but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
 648     other tools and where they can be better optimized.
 649
 650 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
 651 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
 652     of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
 653     to SUID and SGID bits.
 654
 655 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
 656 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
 657     distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
 658     "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
 659
 660 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
 661 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
 662     a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
 663     you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
 664     around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
 665     want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
 666     (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
 667
 668 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
 669 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
 670     most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
 671     Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
 672     cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
 673     the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
 674 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
 675     corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
 676 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
 677     very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
 678     for pointing out these issues.
 679
 680 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
 681 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
 682 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
 683 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
 684     it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
 685
 686 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
 687 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
 688    are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
 689    that needs to change.
 690 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
 691    They weren't returning any errors before.
 692 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
 693    Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
 694    using archive_write_open() directly.
 695 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
 696    single files from large uncompressed archives.
 697
 698 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
 699 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
 700    extended attribute code.
 701 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
 702    files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
 703
 704 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
 705
 706 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
 707 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
 708    of the storage format to simplify debugging.
 709 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
 710    spending much time on.
 711 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
 712    for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
 713 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
 714    file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
 715 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
 716    Pax attribute entry names.
 717 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
 718    appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
 719    yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
 720 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
 721    minor bugfixes.
 722 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
 723 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
 724 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
 725    http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 726 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
 727    fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
 728 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
 729    pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
 730 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
 731    http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
 732    including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
 733    http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
 734    libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
 735 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
 736     new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
 737 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
 738 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
 739     all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
 740 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
 741     and pdtar archives.