Mar 23, 2006: libarchive 1.2.53 released Mar 22, 2006: Fix a stupid error in Linux extended-attribute support 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.