NEWS

   1 Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
   2
   3 Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
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   5 Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
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   7 May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
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   9 Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
  10
  11 Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
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  13 Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
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  15 Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
  16
  17 Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
  18
  19 Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
  20
  21 Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
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  23 Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
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  25 Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
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  27 Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
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  29 May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
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  31 Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
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  33 Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
  34
  35 Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
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  37 Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
  38
  39 Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
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  41 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
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  43 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
  44
  45 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
  46
  47 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
  48
  49 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
  50
  51 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
  52
  53 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
  54
  55 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
  56
  57 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
  58     Security & Feature release
  59
  60 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
  61     Security & Feature release
  62
  63 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
  64
  65 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
  66
  67 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
  68     Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
  69
  70 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
  71
  72 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
  73
  74 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
  75     Security release
  76
  77 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
  78     This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
  79
  80 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
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  82 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
  83     Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  84
  85 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
  86     This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
  87
  88 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
  89
  90 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
  91     https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
  92
  93 Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
  94
  95 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
  96
  97 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
  98
  99 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
 100
 101 May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
 102
 103 Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
 104
 105 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
 106
 107 Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
 108
 109 Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
 110      (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
 111
 112 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
 113
 114 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
 115
 116 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
 117
 118 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
 119
 120 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
 121
 122 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
 123
 124 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
 125     forks are stored in.
 126
 127 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
 128
 129 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
 130
 131 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
 132 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
 133
 134 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
 135
 136 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
 137     (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
 138
 139 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
 140
 141 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
 142
 143 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
 144     http://libarchive.github.com/
 145 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
 146     http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
 147 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
 148
 149 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
 150 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
 151 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
 152 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
 153
 154 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
 155
 156 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
 157 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
 158 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
 159 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
 160 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
 161
 162 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
 163
 164 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
 165 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
 166 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
 167 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
 168    will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
 169 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
 170 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
 171    handling of pax UTF-8 headers
 172 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
 173    support the old interfaces as wrappers
 174 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
 175 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
 176 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
 177 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
 178 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
 179 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
 180    translating to/from user-specified locale
 181 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
 182 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
 183    assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
 184 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
 185 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
 186 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
 187 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
 188 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
 189 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
 190 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
 191 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
 192 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
 193 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
 194 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
 195 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
 196 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
 197 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
 198 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
 199 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
 200 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
 201 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
 202       results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
 203 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
 204 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
 205 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
 206 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
 207 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
 208 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
 209 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
 210 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
 211 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
 212 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
 213 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
 214
 215 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
 216 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
 217 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
 218
 219 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
 220 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
 221 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
 222 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
 223
 224 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
 225
 226 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
 227 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
 228 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
 229 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
 230 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
 231 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
 232
 233 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
 234
 235 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
 236 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
 237 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
 238
 239 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
 240 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
 241
 242 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
 243 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
 244         decompression if the library is built without suitable
 245         libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
 246         in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
 247 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
 248 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
 249         more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
 250 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
 251 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
 252 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 253 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 254         All tests now pass.
 255 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
 256 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
 257 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
 258 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
 259 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
 260 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
 261 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
 262 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
 263         extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
 264         such system-specific knowledge.
 265 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
 266         read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
 267         filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
 268         Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
 269 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
 270
 271 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
 272         server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
 273         people to participate in libarchive development.
 274
 275 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
 276 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
 277 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
 278 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
 279 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
 280 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
 281 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
 282
 283 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
 284         consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
 285         from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
 286         read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
 287         passes and stacks read filters.
 288 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
 289 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
 290 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
 291         gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
 292 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
 293 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
 294 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
 295         some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
 296         doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
 297         enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
 298         now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
 299         you want LZMA read support.
 300 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
 301 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
 302         This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
 303         time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
 304 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
 305 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
 306
 307 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
 308
 309 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
 310 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
 311 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
 312 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
 313 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
 314
 315 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
 316 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
 317
 318 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
 319         for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
 320         code contributions.
 321
 322 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
 323         thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
 324
 325 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
 326
 327 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
 328         This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
 329         Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
 330
 331 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
 332
 333 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
 334
 335 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
 336         hardlinks have different permissions from original file
 337
 338 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
 339         project's Perforce repository:  http://perforce.freebsd.org/
 340         The libarchive project can be browsed at
 341         //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
 342         Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
 343
 344 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
 345         * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
 346         * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
 347         * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
 348           measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
 349         * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
 350           distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
 351         * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
 352         * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
 353           run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
 354         * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
 355         * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
 356         * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
 357           this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
 358         * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
 359         * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
 360         * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
 361
 362 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
 363         This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
 364
 365 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
 366
 367 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
 368 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
 369         ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
 370         bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
 371 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
 372         all known hardlink strategies.
 373 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 374 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
 375 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
 376         now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
 377         files as they are needed.
 378
 379 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
 380         a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
 381         with the UTF-8 fixes.
 382
 383 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
 384 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
 385         to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
 386 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
 387 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
 388 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
 389 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
 390         bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
 391 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
 392 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
 393
 394 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
 395 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
 396 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
 397         bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
 398         of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
 399         issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
 400         several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
 401 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
 402 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
 403         hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
 404         only with the last occurrence of a link.)
 405
 406 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
 407 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
 408
 409 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
 410 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
 411 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
 412
 413 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
 414 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
 415         pattern selection for -i and -it.
 416
 417 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
 418 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
 419         Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
 420
 421 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
 422
 423 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
 424 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
 425 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
 426
 427 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
 428 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
 429
 430 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
 431 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
 432         thanks to Samuli Suominen.
 433
 434 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
 435 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
 436         libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
 437         "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
 438 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
 439 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
 440
 441 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
 442
 443 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
 444 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
 445         man pages.
 446
 447 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
 448 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
 449 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
 450         archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
 451 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
 452         libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
 453
 454 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
 455 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
 456         "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
 457         by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
 458         publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
 459         mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
 460 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
 461         a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
 462 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
 463         broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
 464 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
 465         hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
 466
 467 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
 468 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
 469 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
 470         bsdtar.1 manpages.
 471 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
 472         to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
 473         bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
 474
 475 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
 476 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
 477         actually do the right things.
 478 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
 479         for non-regular files.
 480 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
 481         This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
 482         that bsdtar has.
 483
 484 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
 485 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
 486         fix was implemented incorrectly.
 487
 488 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
 489 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
 490         block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
 491 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
 492         with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
 493         instances of this same function.
 494 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
 495
 496 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
 497 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
 498
 499 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
 500 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
 501         (A little experimental still.)
 502 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
 503 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
 504         an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
 505         perm restore but don't request owner restore.
 506 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
 507
 508 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
 509 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
 510         Sonnenberger.
 511 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
 512
 513 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
 514
 515 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
 516 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
 517         fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
 518         http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
 519
 520 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
 521 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
 522         missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
 523         from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
 524         EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
 525
 526 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
 527 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
 528         entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
 529         still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
 530         worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
 531         direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
 532         required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
 533         a reasonably complete test case.
 534 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
 535
 536 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
 537 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
 538         problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
 539 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
 540         node entries in tar archives.
 541 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
 542         This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
 543         of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
 544         dissimilar systems.
 545
 546 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
 547 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
 548
 549 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
 550 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
 551         (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
 552         Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
 553
 554 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
 555 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
 556
 557 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
 558 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
 559         format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
 560         'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
 561         code that actually touches the disk.
 562
 563 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
 564         Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
 565
 566 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
 567
 568 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
 569 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
 570         Not complete, but should prove helpful.
 571 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
 572         for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
 573         well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
 574         appreciated.
 575
 576 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
 577 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
 578
 579 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
 580 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
 581         written to tar archives
 582
 583 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
 584 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
 585 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
 586
 587 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
 588 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
 589
 590 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
 591 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
 592
 593 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
 594 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
 595
 596 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
 597 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
 598     that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
 599     The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
 600     with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
 601 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
 602
 603 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
 604 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
 605     some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
 606     If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
 607 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
 608     to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
 609 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
 610     a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
 611     Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
 612
 613 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
 614 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
 615     portion of the ACL support for now).
 616 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
 617     turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
 618     libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
 619     archives was unaffected.)
 620
 621 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
 622 Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
 623     Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
 624
 625 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
 626 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
 627     whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
 628
 629 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
 630 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
 631     Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
 632     broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
 633     of this long-standing bug.
 634
 635 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
 636 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
 637
 638 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
 639 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
 640     without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
 641
 642 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
 643 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
 644     and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
 645     but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
 646     other tools and where they can be better optimized.
 647
 648 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
 649 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
 650     of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
 651     to SUID and SGID bits.
 652
 653 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
 654 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
 655     distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
 656     "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
 657
 658 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
 659 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
 660     a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
 661     you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
 662     around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
 663     want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
 664     (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
 665
 666 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
 667 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
 668     most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
 669     Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
 670     cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
 671     the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
 672 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
 673     corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
 674 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
 675     very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
 676     for pointing out these issues.
 677
 678 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
 679 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
 680 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
 681 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
 682     it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
 683
 684 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
 685 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
 686    are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
 687    that needs to change.
 688 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
 689    They weren't returning any errors before.
 690 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
 691    Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
 692    using archive_write_open() directly.
 693 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
 694    single files from large uncompressed archives.
 695
 696 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
 697 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
 698    extended attribute code.
 699 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
 700    files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
 701
 702 OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
 703
 704 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
 705 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
 706    of the storage format to simplify debugging.
 707 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
 708    spending much time on.
 709 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
 710    for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
 711 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
 712    file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
 713 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
 714    Pax attribute entry names.
 715 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
 716    appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
 717    yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
 718 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
 719    minor bugfixes.
 720 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
 721 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
 722 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
 723    http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 724 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
 725    fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
 726 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
 727    pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
 728 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
 729    http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
 730    including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
 731    http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
 732    libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
 733 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
 734     new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
 735 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
 736 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
 737     all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
 738 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
 739     and pdtar archives.