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