NEWS

   1 Dec 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released
   2
   3 Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released
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   5 Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released
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   7 Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released
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   9 Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
  10
  11 Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
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  13 Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
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  15 Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
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  17 May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
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  19 Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
  20
  21 Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
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  23 Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
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  25 Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
  26
  27 Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
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  29 Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
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  31 Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
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  33 Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
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  35 Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
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  37 Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
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  39 May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
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  41 Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
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  43 Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
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  45 Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
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  47 Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
  48
  49 Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
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  51 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
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  53 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
  54
  55 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
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  57 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
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  59 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
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  61 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
  62
  63 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
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  65 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
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  67 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
  68     Security & Feature release
  69
  70 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
  71     Security & Feature release
  72
  73 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
  74
  75 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
  76
  77 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
  78     Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
  79
  80 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
  81
  82 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
  83
  84 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
  85     Security release
  86
  87 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
  88     This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
  89
  90 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
  91
  92 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
  93     Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  94
  95 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
  96     This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  97
  98 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
  99
 100 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
 101     https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
 102
 103 Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
 104
 105 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
 106
 107 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
 108
 109 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
 110
 111 May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
 112
 113 Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
 114
 115 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
 116
 117 Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
 118
 119 Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
 120      (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
 121
 122 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
 123
 124 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
 125
 126 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
 127
 128 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
 129
 130 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
 131
 132 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
 133
 134 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
 135     forks are stored in.
 136
 137 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
 138
 139 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
 140
 141 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
 142 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
 143
 144 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
 145
 146 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
 147     (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
 148
 149 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
 150
 151 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
 152
 153 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
 154     http://libarchive.github.com/
 155 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
 156     http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
 157 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
 158
 159 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
 160 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
 161 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
 162 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
 163
 164 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
 165
 166 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
 167 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
 168 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
 169 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
 170 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
 171
 172 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
 173
 174 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
 175 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
 176 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
 177 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
 178    will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
 179 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
 180 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
 181    handling of pax UTF-8 headers
 182 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
 183    support the old interfaces as wrappers
 184 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
 185 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
 186 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
 187 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
 188 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
 189 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
 190    translating to/from user-specified locale
 191 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
 192 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
 193    assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
 194 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
 195 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
 196 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
 197 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
 198 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
 199 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
 200 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
 201 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
 202 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
 203 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
 204 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
 205 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
 206 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
 207 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
 208 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
 209 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
 210 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
 211 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
 212       results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
 213 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
 214 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
 215 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
 216 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
 217 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
 218 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
 219 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
 220 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
 221 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
 222 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
 223 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
 224
 225 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
 226 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
 227 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
 228
 229 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
 230 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
 231 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
 232 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
 233
 234 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
 235
 236 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
 237 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
 238 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
 239 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
 240 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
 241 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
 242
 243 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
 244
 245 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
 246 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
 247 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
 248
 249 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
 250 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
 251
 252 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
 253 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
 254         decompression if the library is built without suitable
 255         libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
 256         in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
 257 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
 258 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
 259         more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
 260 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
 261 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
 262 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 263 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 264         All tests now pass.
 265 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
 266 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
 267 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
 268 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
 269 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
 270 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
 271 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
 272 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
 273         extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
 274         such system-specific knowledge.
 275 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
 276         read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
 277         filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
 278         Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
 279 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 280
 281 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
 282         server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
 283         people to participate in libarchive development.
 284
 285 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
 286 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
 287 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
 288 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
 289 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
 290 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
 291 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
 292
 293 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
 294         consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
 295         from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
 296         read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
 297         passes and stacks read filters.
 298 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
 299 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
 300 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
 301         gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
 302 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
 303 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
 304 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
 305         some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
 306         doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
 307         enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
 308         now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
 309         you want LZMA read support.
 310 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
 311 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
 312         This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
 313         time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
 314 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
 315 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
 316
 317 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
 318
 319 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
 320 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
 321 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
 322 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
 323 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
 324
 325 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
 326 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
 327
 328 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
 329         for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
 330         code contributions.
 331
 332 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
 333         thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
 334
 335 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
 336
 337 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
 338         This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
 339         Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
 340
 341 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
 342
 343 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
 344
 345 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
 346         hardlinks have different permissions from original file
 347
 348 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
 349         project's Perforce repository:  http://perforce.freebsd.org/
 350         The libarchive project can be browsed at
 351         //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
 352         Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
 353
 354 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
 355         * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
 356         * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
 357         * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
 358           measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
 359         * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
 360           distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
 361         * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
 362         * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
 363           run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
 364         * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
 365         * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
 366         * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
 367           this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
 368         * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
 369         * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
 370         * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
 371
 372 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
 373         This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
 374
 375 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
 376
 377 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
 378 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
 379         ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
 380         bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
 381 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
 382         all known hardlink strategies.
 383 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 384 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 385 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
 386         now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
 387         files as they are needed.
 388
 389 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
 390         a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
 391         with the UTF-8 fixes.
 392
 393 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
 394 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
 395         to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
 396 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
 397 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
 398 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
 399 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
 400         bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
 401 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
 402 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
 403
 404 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
 405 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
 406 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
 407         bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
 408         of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
 409         issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
 410         several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
 411 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
 412 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
 413         hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
 414         only with the last occurrence of a link.)
 415
 416 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
 417 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
 418
 419 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
 420 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
 421 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
 422
 423 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
 424 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
 425         pattern selection for -i and -it.
 426
 427 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
 428 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
 429         Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
 430
 431 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
 432
 433 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
 434 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
 435 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
 436
 437 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
 438 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
 439
 440 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
 441 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
 442         thanks to Samuli Suominen.
 443
 444 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
 445 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
 446         libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
 447         "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
 448 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
 449 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
 450
 451 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
 452
 453 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
 454 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
 455         man pages.
 456
 457 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
 458 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
 459 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
 460         archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
 461 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
 462         libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
 463
 464 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
 465 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
 466         "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
 467         by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
 468         publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
 469         mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
 470 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
 471         a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
 472 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
 473         broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
 474 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
 475         hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
 476
 477 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
 478 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
 479 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
 480         bsdtar.1 manpages.
 481 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
 482         to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
 483         bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
 484
 485 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
 486 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
 487         actually do the right things.
 488 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
 489         for non-regular files.
 490 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
 491         This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
 492         that bsdtar has.
 493
 494 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
 495 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
 496         fix was implemented incorrectly.
 497
 498 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
 499 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
 500         block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
 501 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
 502         with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
 503         instances of this same function.
 504 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
 505
 506 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
 507 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
 508
 509 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
 510 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
 511         (A little experimental still.)
 512 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
 513 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
 514         an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
 515         perm restore but don't request owner restore.
 516 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
 517
 518 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
 519 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
 520         Sonnenberger.
 521 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
 522
 523 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
 524
 525 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
 526 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
 527         fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
 528         http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
 529
 530 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
 531 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
 532         missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
 533         from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
 534         EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
 535
 536 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
 537 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
 538         entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
 539         still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
 540         worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
 541         direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
 542         required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
 543         a reasonably complete test case.
 544 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
 545
 546 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
 547 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
 548         problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
 549 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
 550         node entries in tar archives.
 551 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
 552         This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
 553         of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
 554         dissimilar systems.
 555
 556 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
 557 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
 558
 559 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
 560 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
 561         (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
 562         Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
 563
 564 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
 565 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
 566
 567 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
 568 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
 569         format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
 570         'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
 571         code that actually touches the disk.
 572
 573 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
 574         Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
 575
 576 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
 577
 578 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
 579 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
 580         Not complete, but should prove helpful.
 581 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
 582         for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
 583         well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
 584         appreciated.
 585
 586 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
 587 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
 588
 589 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
 590 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
 591         written to tar archives
 592
 593 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
 594 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
 595 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
 596
 597 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
 598 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
 599
 600 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
 601 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
 602
 603 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
 604 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
 605
 606 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
 607 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
 608     that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
 609     The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
 610     with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
 611 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
 612
 613 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
 614 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
 615     some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
 616     If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
 617 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
 618     to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
 619 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
 620     a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
 621     Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
 622
 623 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
 624 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
 625     portion of the ACL support for now).
 626 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
 627     turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
 628     libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
 629     archives was unaffected.)
 630
 631 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
 632 Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
 633     Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
 634
 635 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
 636 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
 637     whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
 638
 639 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
 640 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
 641     Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
 642     broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
 643     of this long-standing bug.
 644
 645 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
 646 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
 647
 648 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
 649 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
 650     without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
 651
 652 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
 653 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
 654     and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
 655     but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
 656     other tools and where they can be better optimized.
 657
 658 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
 659 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
 660     of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
 661     to SUID and SGID bits.
 662
 663 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
 664 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
 665     distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
 666     "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
 667
 668 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
 669 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
 670     a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
 671     you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
 672     around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
 673     want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
 674     (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
 675
 676 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
 677 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
 678     most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
 679     Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
 680     cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
 681     the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
 682 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
 683     corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
 684 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
 685     very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
 686     for pointing out these issues.
 687
 688 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
 689 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
 690 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
 691 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
 692     it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
 693
 694 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
 695 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
 696    are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
 697    that needs to change.
 698 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
 699    They weren't returning any errors before.
 700 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
 701    Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
 702    using archive_write_open() directly.
 703 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
 704    single files from large uncompressed archives.
 705
 706 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
 707 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
 708    extended attribute code.
 709 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
 710    files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
 711
 712 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
 713
 714 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
 715 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
 716    of the storage format to simplify debugging.
 717 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
 718    spending much time on.
 719 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
 720    for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
 721 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
 722    file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
 723 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
 724    Pax attribute entry names.
 725 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
 726    appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
 727    yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
 728 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
 729    minor bugfixes.
 730 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
 731 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
 732 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
 733    http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 734 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
 735    fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
 736 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
 737    pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
 738 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
 739    http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
 740    including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
 741    http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
 742    libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
 743 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
 744     new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
 745 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
 746 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
 747     all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
 748 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
 749     and pdtar archives.