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Jun 30, 2010: libarchive 2.8.4 released
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Jun 30, 2010: Improved reliability of hash function detection
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Jun 30, 2010: Fix issues on ancient FreeBSD, QNX, ancient NetBSD and Minux
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Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.3 released
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Mar 14, 2010: Symlink dereference fix for Linux broke the build there; corrected.
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Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.2 released
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Mar 12, 2010: Fix NULL deference for short self-extracting zip archives.
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Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
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Mar 07, 2010: Better detection of SHA2 support for old OpenSSL versions.
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Mar 07, 2010: Fix parsing of input files for bsdtar -T.
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Mar 07, 2010: Do not leak setup_xattr into the global namespace.
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Mar 06, 2010: libarchive 2.8.1 released
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Mar 06, 2010: Fix build when an older libarchive is already installed
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Mar 03, 2010: Use O_BINARY opening files in bsdtar
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Mar 02, 2010: Include missing archive_crc32.h
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Mar 01, 2010: Correctly include iconv.h required by libxml2.
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Feb 04, 2010: libarchive 2.8.0 released
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Jan 17, 2010: Fix error handling for 'echo nonexistent | cpio -o'
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Jan 17, 2010: Don't use futimes() on Cygwin
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Jan 02, 2010: libarchive 2.7.902a released (test release for 2.8)
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Jan 02, 2010: Fix tar/test/test_windows on MinGW
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Jan 02, 2010: Fix memory leaks in libarchive tests
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Jan 01, 2010: Fix memory leak when filter startup fails
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Dec 27, 2009: libarchive 2.7.901a released (test release for 2.8)
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Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
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Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
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Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
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Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
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May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
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May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
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Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
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Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
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Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
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Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
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Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
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Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
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Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
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Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
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decompression if the library is built without suitable
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libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
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in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
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Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
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Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
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more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
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Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
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Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
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Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
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Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
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Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
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Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
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Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
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Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
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Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
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Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
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Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
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Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
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extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
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such system-specific knowledge.
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Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
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read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
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filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
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Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
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Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
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Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
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server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
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people to participate in libarchive development.
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Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
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Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
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Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
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Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
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Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
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Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
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Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
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Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
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consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
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from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
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read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
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passes and stacks read filters.
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Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
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Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
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Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
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gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
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Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
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Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
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Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
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some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
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doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
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enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
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now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
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you want LZMA read support.
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Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
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Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
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This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
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time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
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Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
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Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
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Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
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Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
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Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
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Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
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Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
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Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
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May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
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May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
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May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
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for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
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May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
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thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
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May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
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May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
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This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
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Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
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May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
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May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
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May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
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hardlinks have different permissions from original file
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April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
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project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
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The libarchive project can be browsed at
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//depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
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Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
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May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
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* libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
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* bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
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* tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
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measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
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* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
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distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
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* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
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* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults:
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run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
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* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
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* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
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* iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
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this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
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* tar: allow -r -T to be used together
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* tar: allow --format with -r or -u
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* libarchive: Don't build archive.h
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May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
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This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
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Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
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Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
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Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
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ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
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bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
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Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
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all known hardlink strategies.
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Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
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Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
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Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
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now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
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files as they are needed.
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Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
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a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
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with the UTF-8 fixes.
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Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
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Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
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to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
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Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
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Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
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Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
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Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
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bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
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Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
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Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
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Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
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Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
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Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
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bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
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of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
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issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
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several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
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Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
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Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
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hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
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only with the last occurrence of a link.)
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Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
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Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
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Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
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Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
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Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
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Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
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Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
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pattern selection for -i and -it.
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Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
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Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
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Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
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Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
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Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
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Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
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Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
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Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
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Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
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Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
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Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
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thanks to Samuli Suominen.
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Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
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Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
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libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
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"length at end" flags in ZIP files.
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Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
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Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
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Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
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Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
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Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
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Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
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Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
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Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
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archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
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Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
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libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
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Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
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Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
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"compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
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by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
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publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
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mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
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Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
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a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
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Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
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broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
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Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
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hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
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Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
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Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
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Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
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Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
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to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
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bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
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Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
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Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
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actually do the right things.
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Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
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for non-regular files.
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Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
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This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
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Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
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Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
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fix was implemented incorrectly.
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Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
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Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
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block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
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Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
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with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
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instances of this same function.
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Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
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Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
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Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
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Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
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Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
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(A little experimental still.)
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Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
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Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
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an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
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perm restore but don't request owner restore.
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Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
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Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
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Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
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Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
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Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
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Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
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Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
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fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
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http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
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May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
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May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
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missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
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from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
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EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
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May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
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May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
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entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
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still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
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worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
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direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
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required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
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a reasonably complete test case.
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May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
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May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
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May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
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problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
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May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
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node entries in tar archives.
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May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
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This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
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of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
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Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
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Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
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Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
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Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
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(Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
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Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
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Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
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Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
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Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
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Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
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format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
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'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
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code that actually touches the disk.
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Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
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Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
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Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
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Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
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Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
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Not complete, but should prove helpful.
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Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
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for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
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well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
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Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
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Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
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Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
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Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
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written to tar archives
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Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
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Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
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Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
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Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
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Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
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Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
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Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
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Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
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Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
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Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
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Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
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that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
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The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
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with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
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Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
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Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
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Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
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some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
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If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
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Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
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to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
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Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
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a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
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Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
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Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
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Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
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portion of the ACL support for now).
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Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
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turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
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libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
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archives was unaffected.)
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Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
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Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
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Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
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Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
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Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
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whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
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Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
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Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
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Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
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broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
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of this long-standing bug.
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Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
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Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
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Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
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Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
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without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
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Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
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Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
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and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
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but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
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other tools and where they can be better optimized.
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Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
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Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
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of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
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to SUID and SGID bits.
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Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
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Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
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distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
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"touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
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Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
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Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
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a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
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you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
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around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
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want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
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(minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
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Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
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Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
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most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
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Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
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cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
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the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
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Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
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corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
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Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
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very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
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for pointing out these issues.
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Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
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Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
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Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
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Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
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it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
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Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
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Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
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are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
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that needs to change.
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Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
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They weren't returning any errors before.
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Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
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Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
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using archive_write_open() directly.
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Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
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single files from large uncompressed archives.
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Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
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Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
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extended attribute code.
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Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
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files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
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Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
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Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
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of the storage format to simplify debugging.
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Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
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spending much time on.
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Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
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for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
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Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
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file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
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Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
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Pax attribute entry names.
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Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
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appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
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yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
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Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
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Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
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Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
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Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
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http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
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Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
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fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
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Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
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pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
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Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
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http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
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including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
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http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
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libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
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Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
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new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
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Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
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May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
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all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
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May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,
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