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2Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
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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
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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