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   1 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
   2     Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
   3
   4 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
   5
   6 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
   7     Security release
   8
   9 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
  10     This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
  11
  12 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
  13
  14 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
  15     Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  16
  17 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
  18     This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  19
  20 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
  21
  22 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
  23     https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
  24
  25 Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
  26
  27 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
  28
  29 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
  30
  31 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
  32
  33 May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
  34
  35 Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
  36
  37 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
  38
  39 Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
  40
  41 Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
  42      (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
  43
  44 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
  45
  46 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
  47
  48 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
  49
  50 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
  51
  52 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
  53
  54 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
  55
  56 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
  57     forks are stored in.
  58
  59 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
  60
  61 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
  62
  63 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
  64 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
  65
  66 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
  67
  68 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
  69     (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
  70
  71 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
  72
  73 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
  74
  75 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
  76     http://libarchive.github.com/
  77 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
  78     http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
  79 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
  80
  81 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
  82 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
  83 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
  84 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
  85
  86 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
  87
  88 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
  89 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
  90 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
  91 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
  92 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
  93
  94 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
  95
  96 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
  97 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
  98 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
  99 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
 100    will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
 101 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
 102 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
 103    handling of pax UTF-8 headers
 104 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
 105    support the old interfaces as wrappers
 106 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
 107 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
 108 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
 109 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
 110 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
 111 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
 112    translating to/from user-specified locale
 113 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
 114 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
 115    assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
 116 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
 117 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
 118 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
 119 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
 120 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
 121 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
 122 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
 123 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
 124 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
 125 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
 126 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
 127 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
 128 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
 129 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
 130 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
 131 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
 132 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
 133 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
 134       results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
 135 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
 136 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
 137 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
 138 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
 139 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
 140 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
 141 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
 142 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
 143 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
 144 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
 145 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
 146
 147 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
 148 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
 149 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
 150
 151 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
 152 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
 153 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
 154 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
 155
 156 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
 157
 158 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
 159 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
 160 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
 161 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
 162 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
 163 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
 164
 165 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
 166
 167 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
 168 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
 169 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
 170
 171 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
 172 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
 173
 174 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
 175 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
 176         decompression if the library is built without suitable
 177         libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
 178         in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
 179 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
 180 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
 181         more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
 182 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
 183 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
 184 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 185 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 186         All tests now pass.
 187 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
 188 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
 189 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
 190 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
 191 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
 192 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
 193 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
 194 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
 195         extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
 196         such system-specific knowledge.
 197 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
 198         read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
 199         filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
 200         Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
 201 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 202
 203 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
 204         server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
 205         people to participate in libarchive development.
 206
 207 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
 208 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
 209 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
 210 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
 211 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
 212 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
 213 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
 214
 215 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
 216         consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
 217         from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
 218         read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
 219         passes and stacks read filters.
 220 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
 221 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
 222 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
 223         gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
 224 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
 225 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
 226 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
 227         some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
 228         doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
 229         enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
 230         now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
 231         you want LZMA read support.
 232 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
 233 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
 234         This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
 235         time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
 236 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
 237 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
 238
 239 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
 240
 241 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
 242 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
 243 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
 244 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
 245 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
 246
 247 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
 248 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
 249
 250 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
 251         for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
 252         code contributions.
 253
 254 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
 255         thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
 256
 257 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
 258
 259 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
 260         This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
 261         Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
 262
 263 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
 264
 265 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
 266
 267 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
 268         hardlinks have different permissions from original file
 269
 270 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
 271         project's Perforce repository:  http://perforce.freebsd.org/
 272         The libarchive project can be browsed at
 273         //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
 274         Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
 275
 276 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
 277         * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
 278         * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
 279         * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
 280           measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
 281         * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
 282           distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
 283         * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
 284         * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better detaults:
 285           run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
 286         * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
 287         * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
 288         * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
 289           this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
 290         * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
 291         * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
 292         * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
 293
 294 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
 295         This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
 296
 297 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
 298
 299 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
 300 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
 301         ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
 302         bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
 303 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
 304         all known hardlink strategies.
 305 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 306 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 307 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
 308         now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
 309         files as they are needed.
 310
 311 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
 312         a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
 313         with the UTF-8 fixes.
 314
 315 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
 316 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
 317         to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
 318 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
 319 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
 320 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
 321 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
 322         bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
 323 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
 324 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
 325
 326 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
 327 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
 328 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
 329         bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
 330         of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
 331         issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
 332         several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
 333 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
 334 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
 335         hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
 336         only with the last occurrence of a link.)
 337
 338 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
 339 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
 340
 341 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
 342 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
 343 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
 344
 345 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
 346 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
 347         pattern selection for -i and -it.
 348
 349 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
 350 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
 351         Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
 352
 353 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
 354
 355 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
 356 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
 357 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
 358
 359 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
 360 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
 361
 362 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
 363 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
 364         thanks to Samuli Suominen.
 365
 366 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
 367 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
 368         libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
 369         "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
 370 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
 371 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
 372
 373 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
 374
 375 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
 376 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
 377         man pages.
 378
 379 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
 380 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
 381 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
 382         archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
 383 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
 384         libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
 385
 386 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
 387 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
 388         "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
 389         by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
 390         publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
 391         mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
 392 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
 393         a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
 394 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
 395         broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
 396 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
 397         hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
 398
 399 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
 400 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
 401 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
 402         bsdtar.1 manpages.
 403 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
 404         to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
 405         bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
 406
 407 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
 408 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
 409         actually do the right things.
 410 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
 411         for non-regular files.
 412 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
 413         This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
 414         that bsdtar has.
 415
 416 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
 417 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
 418         fix was implemented incorrectly.
 419
 420 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
 421 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
 422         block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
 423 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
 424         with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
 425         instances of this same function.
 426 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
 427
 428 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
 429 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
 430
 431 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
 432 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
 433         (A little experimental still.)
 434 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
 435 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
 436         an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
 437         perm restore but don't request owner restore.
 438 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
 439
 440 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
 441 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
 442         Sonnenberger.
 443 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
 444
 445 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
 446
 447 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
 448 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
 449         fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
 450         http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
 451
 452 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
 453 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
 454         missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
 455         from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
 456         EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
 457
 458 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
 459 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
 460         entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
 461         still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
 462         worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
 463         direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
 464         required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
 465         a reasonably complete test case.
 466 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
 467
 468 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
 469 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
 470         problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
 471 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
 472         node entries in tar archives.
 473 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
 474         This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
 475         of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
 476         dissimilar systems.
 477
 478 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
 479 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
 480
 481 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
 482 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
 483         (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
 484         Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
 485
 486 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
 487 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
 488
 489 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
 490 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
 491         format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
 492         'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
 493         code that actually touches the disk.
 494
 495 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
 496         Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
 497
 498 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
 499
 500 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
 501 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
 502         Not complete, but should prove helpful.
 503 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
 504         for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
 505         well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
 506         appreciated.
 507
 508 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
 509 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
 510
 511 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
 512 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
 513         written to tar archives
 514
 515 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
 516 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
 517 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
 518
 519 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
 520 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
 521
 522 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
 523 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
 524
 525 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
 526 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
 527
 528 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
 529 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
 530     that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
 531     The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
 532     with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
 533 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
 534
 535 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
 536 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
 537     some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
 538     If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
 539 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
 540     to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
 541 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
 542     a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
 543     Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
 544
 545 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
 546 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
 547     portion of the ACL support for now).
 548 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
 549     turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
 550     libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
 551     archives was unaffected.)
 552
 553 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
 554 Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
 555     Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
 556
 557 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
 558 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
 559     whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
 560
 561 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
 562 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
 563     Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
 564     broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
 565     of this long-standing bug.
 566
 567 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
 568 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
 569
 570 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
 571 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
 572     without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
 573
 574 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
 575 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
 576     and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
 577     but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
 578     other tools and where they can be better optimized.
 579
 580 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
 581 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
 582     of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
 583     to SUID and SGID bits.
 584
 585 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
 586 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
 587     distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
 588     "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
 589
 590 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
 591 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
 592     a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
 593     you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
 594     around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
 595     want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
 596     (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
 597
 598 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
 599 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
 600     most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
 601     Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
 602     cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
 603     the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
 604 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
 605     corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
 606 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
 607     very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
 608     for pointing out these issues.
 609
 610 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
 611 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
 612 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
 613 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
 614     it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
 615
 616 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
 617 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
 618    are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
 619    that needs to change.
 620 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
 621    They weren't returning any errors before.
 622 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
 623    Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
 624    using archive_write_open() directly.
 625 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
 626    single files from large uncompressed archives.
 627
 628 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
 629 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
 630    extended attribute code.
 631 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
 632    files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
 633
 634 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
 635
 636 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
 637 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
 638    of the storage format to simplify debugging.
 639 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
 640    spending much time on.
 641 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
 642    for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
 643 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
 644    file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
 645 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
 646    Pax attribute entry names.
 647 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
 648    appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
 649    yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
 650 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
 651    minor bugfixes.
 652 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
 653 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
 654 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
 655    http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 656 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
 657    fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
 658 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
 659    pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
 660 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
 661    http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
 662    including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
 663    http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
 664    libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
 665 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
 666     new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
 667 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
 668 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
 669     all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
 670 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
 671     and pdtar archives.