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1Apr 08, 2022: libarchive 3.6.1 released
2
3Feb 09, 2022: libarchive 3.6.0 released
4
5Feb 08, 2022: libarchive 3.5.3 released
6
7Aug 22, 2021: libarchive 3.5.2 released
8
9Dec 26, 2020: libarchive 3.5.1 released
10
11Dec 01, 2020: libarchive 3.5.0 released
12
13Oct 14, 2020: Support for system extended attributes
14
15May 20, 2020: libarchive 3.4.3 released
16
17Apr 30, 2020: Support for pzstd compressed files
18
19Apr 16, 2020: Support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute
20
21Feb 11, 2020: libarchive 3.4.2 released
22
23Jan 23, 2020: Important fixes for writing XAR archives
24
25Jan 20, 2020: New tar option: --safe-writes (atomical file extraction)
26
27Jan 03, 2020: Support mbed TLS (PolarSSL) as optional crypto provider
28
29Dec 30, 2019: libarchive 3.4.1 released
30
31Dec 11, 2019: New pax write option "xattrhdr"
32
33Nov 17, 2019: Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
34
35Jun 11, 2019: libarchive 3.4.0 released
36
37May 18, 2019: Fixes for reading Android APK and JAR archives
38
39Apr 16, 2019: Support for non-recursive list and extract
40
41Apr 14, 2019: New tar option: --exclude-vcs
42
43Mar 27, 2019: Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
44
45Mar 12, 2019: Important fixes for storing file attributes and flags
46
47Jan 20, 2019: Support for xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 decompression in ZIP files
48
49Oct 06, 2018: RAR 5.0 reader
50
51Sep 03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
52
53Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
54
55Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
56
57Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesn't change existing directory attributes
58
59Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
60
61Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
62
63Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
64
65Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
66    Security & Feature release
67
68Feb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
69    Security & Feature release
70
71Jan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
72
73Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
74
75Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
76    Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()
77
78Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
79
80Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
81
82Oct 23, 2016: libarchive 3.2.2 released
83    Security release
84
85Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
86    This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
87
88May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
89
90Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
91    Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
92
93Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
94    This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
95
96Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
97
98Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
99    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
100
101Early 2015:  Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
102
103Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
104
105Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
106
107Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
108
109May  3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
110
111Apr  6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
112
113Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
114
115Dec  1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
116
117Jul  1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
118     (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
119
120Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
121
122Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
123
124Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
125
126Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
127
128Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
129
130Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
131
132Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
133    forks are stored in.
134
135Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
136
137Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
138
139Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
140Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
141
142Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
143
144Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
145    (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
146
147Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
148
149Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
150
151Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
152    http://libarchive.github.com/
153Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
154    http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
155Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
156
157Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
158Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
159Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
160Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
161
162Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
163
164Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
165Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
166Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
167Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
168Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
169
170Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
171
172Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x
173Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions
174Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs
175Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and
176   will disappear in libarchive 4.0.
177Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader
178Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x
179   handling of pax UTF-8 headers
180Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters;
181   support the old interfaces as wrappers
182Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations
183Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows.
184Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort()
185Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames
186Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options
187Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support
188   translating to/from user-specified locale
189Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature
190Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad
191   assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions
192Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms
193Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader
194Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader
195Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal
196Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility
197Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive
198Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive
199Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals
200May 28, 2010: XAR writer
201May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes
202May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support
203May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters
204May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname
205Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance
206Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format
207Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
208Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
209Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally
210      results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort()
211Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer
212Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks.
213Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk.
214Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t
215Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions.
216Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters
217Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs
218Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers
219Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar
220Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar
221Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V
222
223Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
224Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
225Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
226
227Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
228Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
229Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
230Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
231
232Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
233
234Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
235Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
236Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
237Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
238May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
239May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
240
241Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
242
243Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
244Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
245Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
246
247Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
248Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
249
250Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
251Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
252	decompression if the library is built without suitable
253	libraries.  The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
254	in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
255Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
256Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
257	more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
258Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
259Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
260Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
261Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
262	All tests now pass.
263Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
264Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
265Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
266Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
267Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
268Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
269Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now	with pax format.
270Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
271	extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
272	such system-specific knowledge.
273Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored.  In particular,
274	read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
275	filters should be much easier to implement.  Documentation on the
276	Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
277Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
278
279Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
280	server to Google Code.  This should make it easier for more
281	people to participate in libarchive development.
282
283Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
284Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
285Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
286Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
287Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
288Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
289Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
290
291Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
292	consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks.  The reblocking
293	from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
294	read core.  Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
295	passes and stacks read filters.
296Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
297Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
298Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
299	gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
300Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
301Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
302Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test.  Note:  I still have
303	some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
304	doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
305	enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all().  For
306	now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
307	you want LZMA read support.
308Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
309Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
310	This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
311	time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
312Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
313Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
314
315Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
316
317Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
318Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
319Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
320Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
321Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
322
323May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
324May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
325
326May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building.  Thanks to "Scott"
327        for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
328        code contributions.
329
330May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
331        thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
332
333May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
334
335May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
336        This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
337        Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
338
339May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
340
341May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
342
343May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
344	hardlinks have different permissions from original file
345
346April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
347	project's Perforce repository: 	http://perforce.freebsd.org/
348	The libarchive project can be browsed at
349        //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
350        Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
351
352May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
353	* libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
354	* bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
355	* tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
356	  measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
357	* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
358	  distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
359	* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
360	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
361	  run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
362	* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
363	* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
364	* iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
365	  this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
366	* tar: allow -r -T to be used together
367	* tar: allow --format with -r or -u
368	* libarchive: Don't build archive.h
369
370May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
371	This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
372
373Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
374
375Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
376Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
377	ustar, and old cpio archives.  Just a little more testing before
378	bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
379Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
380	all known hardlink strategies.
381Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
382Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
383Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
384	now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
385	files as they are needed.
386
387Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
388	a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
389	with the UTF-8 fixes.
390
391Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
392Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
393	to/from UTF-8.  Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
394Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
395Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
396Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
397Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
398	bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
399Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
400Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
401
402Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
403Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
404Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
405	bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
406	of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
407	issue in odc format output.  After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
408	several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
409Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
410Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
411	hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files.  (Which store the body
412	only with the last occurrence of a link.)
413
414Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
415Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
416
417Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
418Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
419Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
420
421Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
422Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio:  -a, -q, -L, -f,
423	pattern selection for -i and -it.
424
425Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
426Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
427	Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
428
429Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
430
431Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
432Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
433Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
434
435Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
436Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
437
438Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
439Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
440	thanks to Samuli Suominen.
441
442Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
443Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
444	libarchive couldn't handle.  Fixed a bug in handling of
445	"length at end" flags in ZIP files.
446Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
447Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
448
449Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
450
451Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
452Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
453	man pages.
454
455Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
456Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
457Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
458	archive.  This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
459Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
460	libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
461
462Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
463Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
464	"compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
465	by up to 2/3 in some tests.  (Thanks to Jan Psota for
466	publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
467	mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
468Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
469	a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
470Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
471	broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
472Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
473	hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
474
475Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
476Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
477Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
478	bsdtar.1 manpages.
479Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
480	to read body of non-regular file.  In particular, this fixes
481	bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
482
483Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
484Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
485	actually do the right things.
486Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
487	for non-regular files.
488Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
489	This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
490	that bsdtar has.
491
492Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
493Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
494	fix was implemented incorrectly.
495
496Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
497Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3:  handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
498	block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
499Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
500	with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
501	instances of this same function.
502Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
503
504Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
505Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
506
507Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
508Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
509	(A little experimental still.)
510Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
511Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
512	an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
513	perm restore but don't request owner restore.
514Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
515
516Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
517Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
518	Sonnenberger.
519Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
520
521Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
522
523Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
524Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
525	fixing several critical security bugs.  Details available at
526	http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
527
528May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
529May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
530	missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
531	from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
532	EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
533
534May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
535May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
536	entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
537	still available at finish_entry time.  (archive_read_extract()
538	worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
539	direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break).  This
540	required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
541	a reasonably complete test case.
542May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
543
544May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
545May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
546	problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
547May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
548	node entries in tar archives.
549May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
550	This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
551	of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
552	dissimilar systems.
553
554Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
555Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
556
557Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
558Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
559	(Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
560	Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
561
562Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
563Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
564
565Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
566Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
567	format readers/writers.  This should improve portability;
568	'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
569	code that actually touches the disk.
570
571Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
572	Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
573
574Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
575
576Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
577Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
578	Not complete, but should prove helpful.
579Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
580	for using libarchive with external compression.  Not yet
581	well tested, and likely has portability issues.  Feedback
582	appreciated.
583
584Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
585Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
586
587Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
588Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
589	written to tar archives
590
591Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
592Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
593Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
594
595Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
596Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
597
598Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
599Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
600
601Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
602Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
603
604Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
605Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
606    that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
607    The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
608    with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
609Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
610
611Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
612Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
613    some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
614    If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
615Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
616    to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
617Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
618    a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
619    Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
620
621Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
622Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
623    portion of the ACL support for now).
624Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
625    turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it.  (ACL restores and
626    libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
627    archives was unaffected.)
628
629Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
630Mar 2, 2007:  It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
631    Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
632
633Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
634Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
635    whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
636
637Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
638Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
639    Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
640    broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
641    of this long-standing bug.
642
643Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
644Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
645
646Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
647Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
648    without a proper end-of-archive marker.  Fixed.
649
650Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
651Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
652    and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK.  These checks used to be in bsdtar,
653    but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
654    other tools and where they can be better optimized.
655
656Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
657Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
658    of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
659    to SUID and SGID bits.
660
661Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
662Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
663    distinct archive format.  Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
664    "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
665
666Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
667Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place.  It provides
668    a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract.  In particular,
669    you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
670    around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
671    want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
672    (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
673
674Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
675Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
676    most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
677    Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
678    cases involving objects that already exist on disk.   I expect
679    the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
680Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
681    corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
682Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs.  The code should correctly handle
683    very large ISOs with entries up to 4G.   Thanks to Robert Sciuk
684    for pointing out these issues.
685
686Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
687Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
688Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
689Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
690    it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
691
692Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
693Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
694   are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
695   that needs to change.
696Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
697   They weren't returning any errors before.
698Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
699   Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
700   using archive_write_open() directly.
701Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
702   single files from large uncompressed archives.
703
704Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
705Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
706   extended attribute code.
707Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
708   files.  I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
709
710OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES
711
712Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
713Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
714   of the storage format to simplify debugging.
715Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
716   spending much time on.
717Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
718   for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
719Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
720   file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
721Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
722   Pax attribute entry names.
723Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive.  Feedback
724   appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
725   yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
726Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
727   minor bugfixes.
728Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
729Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
730Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
731   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
732Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson.  -L/-h
733   fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
734Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
735   pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
736Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
737   http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
738   including examples of using it from Objective-C.  His MoinX
739   http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
740   libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
741Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
742    new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
743Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
744May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
745    all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
746May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
747    and pdtar archives.
748