NEWS

   1 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
   2
   3 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
   4
   5 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
   6
   7 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
   8
   9 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
  10
  11 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
  12
  13 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
  14
  15 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
  16
  17 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
  18     Security & Feature release
  19
  20 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
  21     Security & Feature release
  22
  23 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
  24
  25 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
  26
  27 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
  28     Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
  29
  30 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
  31
  32 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
  33
  34 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
  35     Security release
  36
  37 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
  38     This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
  39
  40 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
  41
  42 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
  43     Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  44
  45 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
  46     This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  47
  48 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
  49
  50 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
  51     https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
  52
  53 Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
  54
  55 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
  56
  57 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
  58
  59 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
  60
  61 May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
  62
  63 Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
  64
  65 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
  66
  67 Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
  68
  69 Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
  70      (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
  71
  72 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
  73
  74 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
  75
  76 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
  77
  78 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
  79
  80 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
  81
  82 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
  83
  84 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
  85     forks are stored in.
  86
  87 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
  88
  89 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
  90
  91 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
  92 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
  93
  94 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
  95
  96 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
  97     (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
  98
  99 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
 100
 101 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
 102
 103 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
 104     http://libarchive.github.com/
 105 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
 106     http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
 107 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
 108
 109 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
 110 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
 111 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
 112 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
 113
 114 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
 115
 116 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
 117 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
 118 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
 119 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
 120 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
 121
 122 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
 123
 124 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
 125 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
 126 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
 127 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
 128    will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
 129 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
 130 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
 131    handling of pax UTF-8 headers
 132 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
 133    support the old interfaces as wrappers
 134 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
 135 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
 136 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
 137 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
 138 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
 139 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
 140    translating to/from user-specified locale
 141 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
 142 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
 143    assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
 144 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
 145 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
 146 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
 147 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
 148 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
 149 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
 150 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
 151 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
 152 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
 153 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
 154 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
 155 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
 156 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
 157 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
 158 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
 159 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
 160 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
 161 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
 162       results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
 163 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
 164 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
 165 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
 166 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
 167 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
 168 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
 169 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
 170 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
 171 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
 172 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
 173 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
 174
 175 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
 176 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
 177 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
 178
 179 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
 180 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
 181 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
 182 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
 183
 184 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
 185
 186 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
 187 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
 188 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
 189 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
 190 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
 191 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
 192
 193 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
 194
 195 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
 196 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
 197 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
 198
 199 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
 200 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
 201
 202 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
 203 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
 204         decompression if the library is built without suitable
 205         libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
 206         in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
 207 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
 208 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
 209         more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
 210 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
 211 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
 212 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 213 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 214         All tests now pass.
 215 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
 216 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
 217 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
 218 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
 219 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
 220 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
 221 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
 222 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
 223         extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
 224         such system-specific knowledge.
 225 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
 226         read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
 227         filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
 228         Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
 229 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 230
 231 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
 232         server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
 233         people to participate in libarchive development.
 234
 235 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
 236 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
 237 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
 238 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
 239 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
 240 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
 241 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
 242
 243 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
 244         consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
 245         from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
 246         read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
 247         passes and stacks read filters.
 248 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
 249 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
 250 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
 251         gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
 252 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
 253 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
 254 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
 255         some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
 256         doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
 257         enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
 258         now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
 259         you want LZMA read support.
 260 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
 261 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
 262         This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
 263         time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
 264 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
 265 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
 266
 267 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
 268
 269 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
 270 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
 271 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
 272 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
 273 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
 274
 275 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
 276 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
 277
 278 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
 279         for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
 280         code contributions.
 281
 282 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
 283         thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
 284
 285 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
 286
 287 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
 288         This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
 289         Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
 290
 291 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
 292
 293 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
 294
 295 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
 296         hardlinks have different permissions from original file
 297
 298 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
 299         project's Perforce repository:  http://perforce.freebsd.org/
 300         The libarchive project can be browsed at
 301         //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
 302         Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
 303
 304 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
 305         * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
 306         * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
 307         * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
 308           measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
 309         * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
 310           distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
 311         * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
 312         * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
 313           run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
 314         * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
 315         * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
 316         * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
 317           this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
 318         * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
 319         * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
 320         * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
 321
 322 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
 323         This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
 324
 325 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
 326
 327 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
 328 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
 329         ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
 330         bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
 331 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
 332         all known hardlink strategies.
 333 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 334 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 335 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
 336         now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
 337         files as they are needed.
 338
 339 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
 340         a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
 341         with the UTF-8 fixes.
 342
 343 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
 344 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
 345         to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
 346 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
 347 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
 348 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
 349 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
 350         bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
 351 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
 352 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
 353
 354 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
 355 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
 356 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
 357         bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
 358         of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
 359         issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
 360         several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
 361 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
 362 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
 363         hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
 364         only with the last occurrence of a link.)
 365
 366 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
 367 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
 368
 369 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
 370 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
 371 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
 372
 373 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
 374 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
 375         pattern selection for -i and -it.
 376
 377 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
 378 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
 379         Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
 380
 381 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
 382
 383 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
 384 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
 385 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
 386
 387 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
 388 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
 389
 390 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
 391 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
 392         thanks to Samuli Suominen.
 393
 394 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
 395 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
 396         libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
 397         "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
 398 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
 399 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
 400
 401 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
 402
 403 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
 404 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
 405         man pages.
 406
 407 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
 408 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
 409 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
 410         archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
 411 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
 412         libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
 413
 414 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
 415 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
 416         "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
 417         by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
 418         publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
 419         mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
 420 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
 421         a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
 422 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
 423         broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
 424 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
 425         hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
 426
 427 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
 428 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
 429 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
 430         bsdtar.1 manpages.
 431 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
 432         to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
 433         bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
 434
 435 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
 436 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
 437         actually do the right things.
 438 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
 439         for non-regular files.
 440 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
 441         This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
 442         that bsdtar has.
 443
 444 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
 445 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
 446         fix was implemented incorrectly.
 447
 448 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
 449 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
 450         block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
 451 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
 452         with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
 453         instances of this same function.
 454 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
 455
 456 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
 457 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
 458
 459 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
 460 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
 461         (A little experimental still.)
 462 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
 463 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
 464         an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
 465         perm restore but don't request owner restore.
 466 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
 467
 468 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
 469 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
 470         Sonnenberger.
 471 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
 472
 473 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
 474
 475 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
 476 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
 477         fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
 478         http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
 479
 480 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
 481 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
 482         missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
 483         from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
 484         EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
 485
 486 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
 487 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
 488         entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
 489         still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
 490         worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
 491         direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
 492         required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
 493         a reasonably complete test case.
 494 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
 495
 496 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
 497 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
 498         problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
 499 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
 500         node entries in tar archives.
 501 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
 502         This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
 503         of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
 504         dissimilar systems.
 505
 506 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
 507 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
 508
 509 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
 510 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
 511         (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
 512         Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
 513
 514 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
 515 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
 516
 517 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
 518 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
 519         format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
 520         'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
 521         code that actually touches the disk.
 522
 523 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
 524         Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
 525
 526 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
 527
 528 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
 529 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
 530         Not complete, but should prove helpful.
 531 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
 532         for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
 533         well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
 534         appreciated.
 535
 536 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
 537 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
 538
 539 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
 540 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
 541         written to tar archives
 542
 543 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
 544 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
 545 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
 546
 547 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
 548 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
 549
 550 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
 551 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
 552
 553 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
 554 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
 555
 556 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
 557 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
 558     that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
 559     The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
 560     with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
 561 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
 562
 563 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
 564 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
 565     some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
 566     If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
 567 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
 568     to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
 569 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
 570     a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
 571     Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
 572
 573 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
 574 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
 575     portion of the ACL support for now).
 576 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
 577     turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
 578     libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
 579     archives was unaffected.)
 580
 581 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
 582 Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
 583     Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
 584
 585 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
 586 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
 587     whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
 588
 589 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
 590 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
 591     Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
 592     broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
 593     of this long-standing bug.
 594
 595 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
 596 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
 597
 598 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
 599 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
 600     without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
 601
 602 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
 603 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
 604     and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
 605     but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
 606     other tools and where they can be better optimized.
 607
 608 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
 609 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
 610     of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
 611     to SUID and SGID bits.
 612
 613 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
 614 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
 615     distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
 616     "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
 617
 618 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
 619 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
 620     a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
 621     you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
 622     around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
 623     want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
 624     (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
 625
 626 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
 627 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
 628     most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
 629     Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
 630     cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
 631     the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
 632 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
 633     corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
 634 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
 635     very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
 636     for pointing out these issues.
 637
 638 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
 639 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
 640 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
 641 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
 642     it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
 643
 644 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
 645 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
 646    are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
 647    that needs to change.
 648 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
 649    They weren't returning any errors before.
 650 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
 651    Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
 652    using archive_write_open() directly.
 653 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
 654    single files from large uncompressed archives.
 655
 656 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
 657 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
 658    extended attribute code.
 659 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
 660    files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
 661
 662 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
 663
 664 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
 665 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
 666    of the storage format to simplify debugging.
 667 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
 668    spending much time on.
 669 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
 670    for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
 671 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
 672    file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
 673 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
 674    Pax attribute entry names.
 675 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
 676    appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
 677    yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
 678 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
 679    minor bugfixes.
 680 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
 681 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
 682 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
 683    http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 684 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
 685    fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
 686 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
 687    pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
 688 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
 689    http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
 690    including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
 691    http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
 692    libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
 693 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
 694     new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
 695 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
 696 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
 697     all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
 698 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
 699     and pdtar archives.