NEWS

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