1Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
2
3Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
4
5Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
6    Security & Feature release
7
8Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
9    Security & Feature release
10
11Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
12
13Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
14
15Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
16    Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
17
18Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
19
20Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
21
22Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
23    Security release
24
25Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
26    This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
27
28May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
29
30Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
31    Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
32
33Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
34    This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
35
36Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
37
38Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
39    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
40
41Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
42
43Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
44
45Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
46
47Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
48
49May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
50
51Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
52
53Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
54
55Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
56
57Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
58     (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
59
60Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
61
62Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
63
64Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
65
66Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
67
68Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
69
70Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
71
72Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
73    forks are stored in.
74
75Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
76
77Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
78
79Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
80Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
81
82Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
83
84Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
85    (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
86
87Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
88
89Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
90
91Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
92    http://libarchive.github.com/
93Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
94    http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
95Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
96
97Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
98Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
99Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
100Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
101
102Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
103
104Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
105Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
106Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
107Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
108Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
109
110Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
111
112Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
113Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
114Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
115Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
116   will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
117Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
118Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
119   handling of pax UTF-8 headers
120Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
121   support the old interfaces as wrappers
122Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
123Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
124Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
125Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
126Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
127Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
128   translating to/from user-specified locale
129Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
130Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
131   assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
132Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
133Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
134Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
135Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
136Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
137Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
138Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
139Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
140May 28, 2010: XAR writer
141May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
142May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
143May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
144May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
145Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
146Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
147Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
148Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
149Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
150      results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
151Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
152Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
153Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
154Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
155Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
156Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
157Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
158Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
159Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
160Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
161Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
162
163Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
164Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
165Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
166
167Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
168Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
169Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
170Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
171
172Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
173
174Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
175Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
176Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
177Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
178May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
179May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
180
181Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
182
183Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
184Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
185Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
186
187Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
188Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
189
190Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
191Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
192	decompression if the library is built without suitable
193	libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
194	in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
195Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
196Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
197	more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
198Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
199Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
200Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
201Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
202	All tests now pass.
203Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
204Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
205Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
206Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
207Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
208Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
209Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now	with pax format.
210Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
211	extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
212	such system-specific knowledge.
213Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
214	read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
215	filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
216	Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
217Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
218
219Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
220	server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
221	people to participate in libarchive development.
222
223Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
224Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
225Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
226Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
227Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
228Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
229Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
230
231Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
232	consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
233	from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
234	read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
235	passes and stacks read filters.
236Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
237Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
238Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
239	gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
240Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
241Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
242Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
243	some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
244	doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
245	enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
246	now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
247	you want LZMA read support.
248Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
249Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
250	This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
251	time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
252Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
253Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
254
255Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
256
257Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
258Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
259Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
260Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
261Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
262
263May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
264May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
265
266May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
267        for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
268        code contributions.
269
270May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
271        thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
272
273May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
274
275May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
276        This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
277        Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
278
279May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
280
281May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
282
283May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
284	hardlinks have different permissions from original file
285
286April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
287	project's Perforce repository: 	http://perforce.freebsd.org/
288	The libarchive project can be browsed at
289        //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
290        Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
291
292May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
293	* libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
294	* bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
295	* tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
296	  measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
297	* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
298	  distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
299	* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
300	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
301	  run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
302	* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
303	* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
304	* iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
305	  this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
306	* tar: allow -r -T to be used together
307	* tar: allow --format with -r or -u
308	* libarchive: Don't build archive.h
309
310May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
311	This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
312
313Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
314
315Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
316Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
317	ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
318	bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
319Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
320	all known hardlink strategies.
321Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
322Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
323Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
324	now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
325	files as they are needed.
326
327Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
328	a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
329	with the UTF-8 fixes.
330
331Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
332Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
333	to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
334Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
335Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
336Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
337Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
338	bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
339Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
340Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
341
342Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
343Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
344Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
345	bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
346	of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
347	issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
348	several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
349Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
350Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
351	hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
352	only with the last occurrence of a link.)
353
354Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
355Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
356
357Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
358Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
359Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
360
361Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
362Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
363	pattern selection for -i and -it.
364
365Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
366Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
367	Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
368
369Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
370
371Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
372Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
373Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
374
375Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
376Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
377
378Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
379Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
380	thanks to Samuli Suominen.
381
382Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
383Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
384	libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
385	"length at end" flags in ZIP files.
386Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
387Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
388
389Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
390
391Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
392Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
393	man pages.
394
395Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
396Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
397Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
398	archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
399Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
400	libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
401
402Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
403Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
404	"compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
405	by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
406	publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
407	mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
408Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
409	a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
410Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
411	broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
412Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
413	hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
414
415Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
416Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
417Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
418	bsdtar.1 manpages.
419Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
420	to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
421	bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
422
423Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
424Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
425	actually do the right things.
426Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
427	for non-regular files.
428Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
429	This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
430	that bsdtar has.
431
432Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
433Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
434	fix was implemented incorrectly.
435
436Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
437Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
438	block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
439Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
440	with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
441	instances of this same function.
442Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
443
444Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
445Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
446
447Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
448Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
449	(A little experimental still.)
450Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
451Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
452	an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
453	perm restore but don't request owner restore.
454Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
455
456Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
457Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
458	Sonnenberger.
459Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
460
461Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
462
463Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
464Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
465	fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
466	http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
467
468May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
469May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
470	missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
471	from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
472	EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
473
474May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
475May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
476	entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
477	still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
478	worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
479	direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
480	required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
481	a reasonably complete test case.
482May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
483
484May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
485May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
486	problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
487May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
488	node entries in tar archives.
489May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
490	This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
491	of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
492	dissimilar systems.
493
494Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
495Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
496
497Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
498Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
499	(Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
500	Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
501
502Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
503Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
504
505Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
506Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
507	format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
508	'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
509	code that actually touches the disk.
510
511Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
512	Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
513
514Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
515
516Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
517Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
518	Not complete, but should prove helpful.
519Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
520	for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
521	well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
522	appreciated.
523
524Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
525Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
526
527Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
528Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
529	written to tar archives
530
531Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
532Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
533Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
534
535Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
536Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
537
538Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
539Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
540
541Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
542Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
543
544Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
545Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
546    that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
547    The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
548    with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
549Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
550
551Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
552Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
553    some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
554    If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
555Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
556    to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
557Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
558    a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
559    Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
560
561Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
562Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
563    portion of the ACL support for now).
564Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
565    turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
566    libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
567    archives was unaffected.)
568
569Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
570Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
571    Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
572
573Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
574Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
575    whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
576
577Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
578Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
579    Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
580    broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
581    of this long-standing bug.
582
583Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
584Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
585
586Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
587Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
588    without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
589
590Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
591Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
592    and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
593    but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
594    other tools and where they can be better optimized.
595
596Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
597Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
598    of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
599    to SUID and SGID bits.
600
601Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
602Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
603    distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
604    "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
605
606Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
607Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
608    a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
609    you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
610    around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
611    want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
612    (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
613
614Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
615Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
616    most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
617    Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
618    cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
619    the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
620Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
621    corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
622Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
623    very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
624    for pointing out these issues.
625
626Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
627Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
628Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
629Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
630    it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
631
632Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
633Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
634   are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
635   that needs to change.
636Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
637   They weren't returning any errors before.
638Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
639   Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
640   using archive_write_open() directly.
641Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
642   single files from large uncompressed archives.
643
644Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
645Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
646   extended attribute code.
647Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
648   files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
649
650OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
651
652Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
653Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
654   of the storage format to simplify debugging.
655Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
656   spending much time on.
657Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
658   for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
659Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
660   file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
661Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
662   Pax attribute entry names.
663Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
664   appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
665   yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
666Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
667   minor bugfixes.
668Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
669Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
670Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
671   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
672Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
673   fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
674Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
675   pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
676Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
677   http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
678   including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
679   http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
680   libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
681Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
682    new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
683Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
684May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
685    all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
686May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
687    and pdtar archives.
688