NEWS

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