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