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diff --git a/contrib/libarchive/NEWS b/contrib/libarchive/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a25fe3 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/libarchive/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,550 @@ +Feb 05, 2011: Fix issue 134: Improve handling of open failures +Dec 06, 2010: Fix issue 119: Relax ISO verification +Dec 06, 2010: Fix issue 121: mtree parsing +Dec 05, 2010: Fix extraction of GNU tar 'D' directory entries +Dec 05, 2010: Be less demanding in LZMA/XZ compression tests +Jun 30, 2010: libarchive 2.8.4 released +Jun 30, 2010: Improved reliability of hash function detection +Jun 30, 2010: Fix issues on ancient FreeBSD, QNX, ancient NetBSD and Minix + +Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.3 released +Mar 14, 2010: Symlink dereference fix for Linux broke the build there; corrected. + +Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.2 released +Mar 12, 2010: Fix NULL deference for short self-extracting zip archives. +Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs. +Mar 07, 2010: Better detection of SHA2 support for old OpenSSL versions. +Mar 07, 2010: Fix parsing of input files for bsdtar -T. +Mar 07, 2010: Do not leak setup_xattr into the global namespace. + +Mar 06, 2010: libarchive 2.8.1 released +Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed +Mar 03, 2010: Use O_BINARY opening files in bsdtar +Mar 02, 2010: Include missing archive_crc32.h +Mar 01, 2010: Correctly include iconv.h required by libxml2. + +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. |
