| Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released |
| Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0 |
| |
| Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released |
| This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0 |
| |
| Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF |
| |
| Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub. |
| https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues |
| |
| Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck |
| |
| Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support |
| |
| Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression. |
| |
| Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support |
| |
| May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension |
| |
| Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool |
| |
| Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support |
| |
| Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic |
| |
| Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats |
| (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however) |
| |
| Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added |
| |
| Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released |
| |
| Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org. |
| |
| Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released |
| |
| Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released |
| |
| Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used. |
| |
| Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource |
| forks are stored in. |
| |
| Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format. |
| |
| Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression. |
| |
| Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter. |
| Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter. |
| |
| Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop. |
| |
| Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks. |
| (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives). |
| |
| Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip. |
| |
| Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released |
| |
| Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub. |
| http://libarchive.github.com/ |
| Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code. |
| http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list |
| Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups. |
| |
| Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released |
| Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD |
| Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer |
| Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader |
| |
| Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released |
| |
| Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader |
| Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input |
| Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries |
| Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives |
| Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows |
| |
| Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released |
| |
| Nov 06, 2011: Update shared-library version calculations for libarchive 3.x |
| Sep 04, 2011: Fix tar -s; follow GNU tar for controlling hardlink/symlink substitutions |
| Aug 18, 2011: Fix reading ISO images built by NetBSD's mkisofs |
| Aug 15, 2011: Old archive_read_support_compression_XXX functions are deprecated and |
| will disappear in libarchive 4.0. |
| Jun 26, 2011: RAR reader |
| Jun 16, 2011: Add tar:compat-2x option to emulate broken libarchive 2.x |
| handling of pax UTF-8 headers |
| Apr 25, 2011: Refactor read_open() into a collection of single-item setters; |
| support the old interfaces as wrappers |
| Apr 12, 2011: Split disk writer into separate POSIX and Windows implementations |
| Apr 10, 2011: Improvements to character translations on Windows. |
| Mar 30, 2011: More work to return errors instead of calling abort() |
| Mar 23, 2011: Add charset option to many writers to control MBCS filenames |
| Mar 17, 2011: Overhauled support for per-format extension options |
| Mar 17, 2011: Track character set used for mbcs strings, support |
| translating to/from user-specified locale |
| Mar 09, 2011: Recognize mtree files without requiring a signature |
| Mar 06, 2011: Use iconv to convert to/from Unicode instead of making bad |
| assumptions about the C90 character set translation functions |
| Feb 17, 2011: Fixes for AIX, TRU64, and other platforms |
| Dec 22, 2010: CAB reader |
| Dec 20, 2010: LHA/LZH reader |
| Jul 03, 2010: minitar example demonstrates archive_read_disk directory traversal |
| Jun 29, 2010: Many improvements to ISO reader compatibility |
| Jun 26, 2010: Use larger buffers when copy files into an archive |
| Jun 18, 2010: Reimplement Mac OS extensions in libarchive |
| Jun 09, 2010: archive_read_disk now supports traversals |
| May 28, 2010: XAR writer |
| May 16, 2010: Fix ^T handling; don't exit on interrupted reads and writes |
| May 09, 2010: Improved detection of platform-specific crypto support |
| May 04, 2010: lzip read and write filters |
| May 01, 2010: New options: tar --gid --gname --uid --uname |
| Apr 28, 2010: Use Red-black tree for ISO reader/writer to improve performance |
| Apr 17, 2010: Minimal writer for legacy GNU tar format |
| Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. |
| Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed |
| Feb 28, 2010: Relax handling of state failures; misuse by clients now generally |
| results in a sticky ARCHIVE_FATAL rather than a visit to abort() |
| Feb 25, 2010: ISO writer |
| Feb 21, 2010: Split many man pages into smaller chunks. |
| Feb 21, 2010: Performance: Cheat on block sizes when reading archives from disk. |
| Feb 21, 2010: Use int64_t instead of off_t, dev_t, ino_t, uid_t, and gid_t |
| Feb 20, 2010: Document new ACL functions. |
| Feb 19, 2010: Support multiple write filters |
| Feb 07, 2010: Remove some legacy libarchive 1.x APIs |
| Feb 04, 2010: Read afio headers |
| Feb 02, 2010: Archive sparse files compatibly with GNU tar |
| Feb 01, 2010: Integrate Apple extensions for Mac OS extended attributes into bsdtar |
| Jan 31, 2010: Support cpio -V |
| |
| Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released |
| Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o' |
| Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin |
| |
| Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8) |
| Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW |
| Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests |
| Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails |
| |
| Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8) |
| |
| Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released |
| Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz |
| Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7 |
| Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes. |
| May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program. |
| May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe. |
| |
| Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released |
| |
| Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released |
| Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC. |
| Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test |
| |
| Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released |
| Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test |
| |
| Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released |
| Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for |
| decompression if the library is built without suitable |
| libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN |
| in this case so clients can adapt if necessary. |
| Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety. |
| Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25% |
| more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring. |
| Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution. |
| Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson. |
| Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. |
| Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA. |
| All tests now pass. |
| Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577 |
| Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C. |
| Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro. |
| Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson. |
| Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro. |
| Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke. |
| Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format. |
| Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs, |
| extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require |
| such system-specific knowledge. |
| Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular, |
| read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual |
| filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the |
| Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters. |
| Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA. |
| |
| Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce |
| server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more |
| people to participate in libarchive development. |
| |
| Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released |
| Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released |
| Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released |
| Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released |
| Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released |
| Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released |
| Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6 |
| |
| Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just |
| consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking |
| from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the |
| read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple |
| passes and stacks read filters. |
| Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser. |
| Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error |
| Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(), |
| gives consistent option parsing on all platforms. |
| Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive |
| Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support |
| Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have |
| some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format |
| doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet |
| enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For |
| now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if |
| you want LZMA read support. |
| Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files |
| Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set. |
| This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and |
| time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime). |
| Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer |
| Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support |
| |
| Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released |
| |
| Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released |
| Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now |
| Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead |
| Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat |
| Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b. |
| |
| May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released |
| May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format |
| |
| May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott" |
| for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for |
| code contributions. |
| |
| May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows, |
| thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out. |
| |
| May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info |
| |
| May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering. |
| This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems. |
| Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis. |
| |
| May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar |
| |
| May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements |
| |
| May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when |
| hardlinks have different permissions from original file |
| |
| April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD |
| project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ |
| The libarchive project can be browsed at |
| //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable |
| Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr |
| |
| May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released |
| * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes |
| * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes |
| * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about |
| measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use |
| * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about |
| distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL) |
| * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames |
| * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults: |
| run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures |
| * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin |
| * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t |
| * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file; |
| this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers |
| * tar: allow -r -T to be used together |
| * tar: allow --format with -r or -u |
| * libarchive: Don't build archive.h |
| |
| May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed |
| This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms. |
| |
| Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released |
| |
| Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released |
| Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc, |
| ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before |
| bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality. |
| Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling |
| all known hardlink strategies. |
| Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger. |
| Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger. |
| Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they |
| now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference |
| files as they are needed. |
| |
| Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for |
| a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced |
| with the UTF-8 fixes. |
| |
| Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released |
| Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted |
| to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008. |
| Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD. |
| Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang |
| Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices. |
| Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing; |
| bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this. |
| Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg |
| Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives. |
| |
| Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released |
| Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives. |
| Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9. |
| bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format |
| of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting |
| issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered |
| several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed. |
| Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives. |
| Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with |
| hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body |
| only with the last occurrence of a link.) |
| |
| Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released |
| Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems. |
| |
| Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released |
| Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use. |
| Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio. |
| |
| Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released |
| Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f, |
| pattern selection for -i and -it. |
| |
| Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released |
| Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly, |
| Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention. |
| |
| Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released |
| |
| Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released |
| Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline |
| Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks. |
| |
| Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released |
| Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first. |
| |
| Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released |
| Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl, |
| thanks to Samuli Suominen. |
| |
| Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released |
| Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that |
| libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of |
| "length at end" flags in ZIP files. |
| Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests. |
| Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness. |
| |
| Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released |
| |
| Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released |
| Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for |
| man pages. |
| |
| Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released |
| Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling. |
| Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the |
| archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery. |
| Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives: |
| libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB. |
| |
| Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released |
| Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the |
| "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time |
| by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for |
| publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar |
| mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.) |
| Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly |
| a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms. |
| Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was |
| broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats. |
| Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I |
| hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar. |
| |
| Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released |
| Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite. |
| Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and |
| bsdtar.1 manpages. |
| Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try |
| to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes |
| bsdtar extraction of zip archives. |
| |
| Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released |
| Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options |
| actually do the right things. |
| Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies |
| for non-regular files. |
| Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written. |
| This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts |
| that bsdtar has. |
| |
| Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released |
| Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data() |
| fix was implemented incorrectly. |
| |
| Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released |
| Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize |
| block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults. |
| Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used |
| with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other |
| instances of this same function. |
| Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode |
| |
| Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released |
| Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec. |
| |
| Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released |
| Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage |
| (A little experimental still.) |
| Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries. |
| Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer |
| an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request |
| perm restore but don't request owner restore. |
| Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio |
| |
| Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released |
| Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg |
| Sonnenberger. |
| Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo. |
| |
| Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released |
| |
| Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released |
| Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and |
| fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at |
| http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc |
| |
| May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released |
| May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some |
| missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup |
| from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an |
| EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression. |
| |
| May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released |
| May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning |
| entry passed into write_header so that permission info is |
| still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract() |
| worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but |
| direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This |
| required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has |
| a reasonably complete test case. |
| May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation. |
| |
| May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released |
| May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch |
| problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>. |
| May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device |
| node entries in tar archives. |
| May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well. |
| This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch |
| of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on |
| dissimilar systems. |
| |
| Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released |
| Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup. |
| |
| Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released |
| Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries |
| (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.) |
| Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c. |
| |
| Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released |
| Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X |
| |
| Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released |
| Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the |
| format readers/writers. This should improve portability; |
| 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in |
| code that actually touches the disk. |
| |
| Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released |
| Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix. |
| |
| Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released |
| |
| Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released |
| Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs. |
| Not complete, but should prove helpful. |
| Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program" |
| for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet |
| well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback |
| appreciated. |
| |
| Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released |
| Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work |
| |
| Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released |
| Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs |
| written to tar archives |
| |
| Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released |
| Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms. |
| Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool |
| |
| Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released |
| Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang. |
| |
| Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released |
| Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger. |
| |
| Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released |
| Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag. |
| |
| Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released |
| Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry |
| that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly. |
| The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created |
| with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter. |
| Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux. |
| |
| Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released |
| Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed |
| some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar. |
| If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know. |
| Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough |
| to enable as part of "make check", but getting better. |
| Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when |
| a header write fails in a way that only affects this item. |
| Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN. |
| |
| Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released |
| Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent |
| portion of the ACL support for now). |
| Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got |
| turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and |
| libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax |
| archives was unaffected.) |
| |
| Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released |
| Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. |
| Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta. |
| |
| Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released |
| Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking |
| whether the current user has too few or too many privileges. |
| |
| Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released |
| Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs. |
| Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the |
| broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause |
| of this long-standing bug. |
| |
| Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released |
| Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod(). |
| |
| Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released |
| Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files, |
| without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed. |
| |
| Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released |
| Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT |
| and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar, |
| but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by |
| other tools and where they can be better optimized. |
| |
| Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released |
| Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling |
| of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating |
| to SUID and SGID bits. |
| |
| Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released |
| Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a |
| distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g., |
| "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar" |
| |
| Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released |
| Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides |
| a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular, |
| you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive |
| around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you |
| want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups |
| (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat). |
| |
| Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released |
| Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the |
| most common cases with a minimal number of system calls. |
| Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner |
| cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect |
| the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases. |
| Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially |
| corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files. |
| Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle |
| very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk |
| for pointing out these issues. |
| |
| Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released |
| Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers. |
| Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers. |
| Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional; |
| it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic |
| |
| Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released |
| Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these |
| are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything |
| that needs to change. |
| Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close() |
| They weren't returning any errors before. |
| Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set |
| Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when |
| using archive_write_open() directly. |
| Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting |
| single files from large uncompressed archives. |
| |
| Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released |
| Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific |
| extended attribute code. |
| Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other |
| files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on. |
| |
| OLDER NEWS SUMMARIES |
| |
| Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released |
| Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign |
| of the storage format to simplify debugging. |
| Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth |
| spending much time on. |
| Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support |
| for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.). |
| Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz |
| file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar. |
| Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write |
| Pax attribute entry names. |
| Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback |
| appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all() |
| yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics. |
| Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady, |
| minor bugfixes. |
| Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems. |
| Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs. |
| Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows: |
| http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ |
| Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h |
| fix from Jaakko Heinonen. |
| Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long |
| pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB). |
| Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive |
| http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/ |
| including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX |
| http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses |
| libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages. |
| Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support, |
| new directory-walking code for bsdtar. |
| Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections. |
| May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost |
| all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar. |
| May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar, |
| and pdtar archives. |
