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