1 Apr 26, 2024: libarchive 3.7.4 released
3 Apr 08, 2024: libarchive 3.7.3 released
5 Sep 12, 2023: libarchive 3.7.2 released
7 Jul 29, 2023: libarchive 3.7.1 released
9 Jul 18, 2023: libarchive 3.7.0 released
11 Jul 14, 2023: bsdunzip port from FreeBSD
13 Dec 07, 2022: libarchive 3.6.2 released
15 Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released
17 Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released
19 Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released
21 Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
23 Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
25 Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
27 Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
29 May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
31 Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
33 Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
35 Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
37 Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
39 Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
41 Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
43 Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
45 Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
47 Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
49 Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
51 May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
53 Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
55 Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
57 Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
59 Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
61 Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
63 Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
65 Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
67 Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
69 Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
71 Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
73 Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
75 Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
77 Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
79 Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
80 Security & Feature release
82 Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
83 Security & Feature release
85 Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
87 Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
89 Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
90 Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
92 Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
94 Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
96 Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
99 Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
100 This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
102 May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
104 Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
105 Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
107 Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
108 This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
110 Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
112 Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
113 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
115 Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
117 Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
119 Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
121 Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
123 May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
125 Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
127 Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
129 Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
131 Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
132 (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
134 Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
136 Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
138 Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
140 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
142 Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
144 Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
146 Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
149 Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
151 Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
153 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
154 Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
156 Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
158 Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
159 (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
161 Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
163 Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
165 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
166 http://libarchive.github.com/
167 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
168 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
169 Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
171 Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
172 Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
173 Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
174 Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
176 Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
178 Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
179 Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
180 Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
181 Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
182 Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
184 Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
186 Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
187 Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
188 Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
189 Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
190 will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
191 Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
192 Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
193 handling of pax UTF-8 headers
194 Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
195 support the old interfaces as wrappers
196 Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
197 Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
198 Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
199 Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
200 Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
201 Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
202 translating to/from user-specified locale
203 Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
204 Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
205 assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
206 Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
207 Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
208 Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
209 Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
210 Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
211 Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
212 Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
213 Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
214 May 28, 2010: XAR writer
215 May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
216 May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
217 May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
218 May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
219 Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
220 Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
221 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
222 Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
223 Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
224 results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
225 Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
226 Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
227 Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
228 Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
229 Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
230 Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
231 Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
232 Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
233 Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
234 Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
235 Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
237 Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
238 Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
239 Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
241 Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
242 Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
243 Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
244 Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
246 Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
248 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
249 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
250 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
251 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
252 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
253 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
255 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
257 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
258 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
259 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
261 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
262 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
264 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
265 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
266 decompression if the library is built without suitable
267 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
268 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
269 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
270 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
271 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
272 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
273 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
274 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
275 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
277 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
278 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
279 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
280 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
281 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
282 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
283 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
284 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
285 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
286 such system-specific knowledge.
287 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
288 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
289 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
290 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
291 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
293 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
294 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
295 people to participate in libarchive development.
297 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
298 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
299 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
300 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
301 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
302 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
303 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
305 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
306 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
307 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
308 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
309 passes and stacks read filters.
310 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
311 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
312 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
313 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
314 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
315 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
316 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
317 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
318 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
319 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
320 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
321 you want LZMA read support.
322 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
323 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
324 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
325 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
326 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
327 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
329 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
331 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
332 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
333 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
334 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
335 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
337 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
338 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
340 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
341 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
344 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
345 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
347 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
349 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
350 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
351 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
353 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
355 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
357 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
358 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
360 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
361 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
362 The libarchive project can be browsed at
363 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
364 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
366 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
367 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
368 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
369 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
370 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
371 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
372 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
373 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
374 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better defaults:
375 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
376 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
377 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
378 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
379 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
380 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
381 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
382 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
384 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
385 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
387 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
389 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
390 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
391 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
392 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
393 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
394 all known hardlink strategies.
395 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
396 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
397 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
398 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
399 files as they are needed.
401 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
402 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
403 with the UTF-8 fixes.
405 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
406 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
407 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
408 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
409 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
410 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
411 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
412 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
413 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
414 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
416 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
417 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
418 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
419 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
420 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
421 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
422 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
423 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
424 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
425 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
426 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
428 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
429 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
431 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
432 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
433 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
435 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
436 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
437 pattern selection for -i and -it.
439 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
440 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
441 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
443 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
445 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
446 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
447 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
449 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
450 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
452 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
453 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
454 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
456 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
457 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
458 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
459 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
460 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
461 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
463 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
465 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
466 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
469 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
470 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
471 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
472 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
473 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
474 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
476 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
477 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
478 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
479 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
480 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
481 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
482 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
483 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
484 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
485 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
486 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
487 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
489 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
490 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
491 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
493 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
494 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
495 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
497 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
498 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
499 actually do the right things.
500 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
501 for non-regular files.
502 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
503 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
506 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
507 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
508 fix was implemented incorrectly.
510 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
511 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
512 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
513 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
514 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
515 instances of this same function.
516 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
518 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
519 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
521 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
522 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
523 (A little experimental still.)
524 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
525 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
526 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
527 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
528 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
530 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
531 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
533 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
535 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
537 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
538 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
539 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
540 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
542 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
543 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
544 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
545 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
546 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
548 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
549 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
550 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
551 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
552 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
553 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
554 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
555 a reasonably complete test case.
556 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
558 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
559 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
560 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
561 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
562 node entries in tar archives.
563 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
564 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
565 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
568 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
569 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
571 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
572 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
573 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
574 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
576 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
577 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
579 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
580 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
581 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
582 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
583 code that actually touches the disk.
585 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
586 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
588 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
590 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
591 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
592 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
593 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
594 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
595 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
598 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
599 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
601 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
602 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
603 written to tar archives
605 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
606 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
607 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
609 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
610 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
612 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
613 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
615 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
616 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
618 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
619 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
620 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
621 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
622 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
623 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
625 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
626 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
627 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
628 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
629 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
630 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
631 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
632 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
633 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
635 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
636 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
637 portion of the ACL support for now).
638 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
639 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
640 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
641 archives was unaffected.)
643 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
644 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
645 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
647 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
648 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
649 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
651 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
652 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
653 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
654 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
655 of this long-standing bug.
657 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
658 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
660 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
661 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
662 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
664 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
665 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
666 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
667 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
668 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
670 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
671 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
672 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
673 to SUID and SGID bits.
675 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
676 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
677 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
678 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
680 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
681 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
682 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
683 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
684 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
685 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
686 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
688 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
689 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
690 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
691 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
692 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
693 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
694 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
695 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
696 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
697 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
698 for pointing out these issues.
700 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
701 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
702 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
703 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
704 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
706 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
707 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
708 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
709 that needs to change.
710 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
711 They weren't returning any errors before.
712 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
713 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
714 using archive_write_open() directly.
715 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
716 single files from large uncompressed archives.
718 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
719 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
720 extended attribute code.
721 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
722 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
726 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
727 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
728 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
729 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
730 spending much time on.
731 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
732 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
733 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
734 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
735 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
736 Pax attribute entry names.
737 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
738 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
739 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
740 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
742 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
743 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
744 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
745 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
746 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
747 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
748 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
749 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
750 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
751 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
752 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
753 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
754 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
755 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
756 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
757 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
758 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
759 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
760 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,