diff options
author | Tim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com> | 2008-11-09 15:02:31 -0500 |
---|---|---|
committer | Tim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com> | 2008-11-09 15:02:31 -0500 |
commit | 03f87984c4dc77389b77d6ab3403411512b1c761 (patch) | |
tree | ff33f2c895695429deb2760bced9a51b0641eace /NEWS | |
parent | ae3c912291bbad1f10d4b6c34344f3baa14b22f1 (diff) | |
download | libarchive-03f87984c4dc77389b77d6ab3403411512b1c761.tar.gz |
Update NEWS, version to 2.5.902a.
SVN-Revision: 245
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 38 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 16 deletions
@@ -1,24 +1,30 @@ - -Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901 released -Nov 07, 2008: Decompression refactor completed: The decompression - routines have been simplified; they now consume and produce - arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking which used to be in - read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the read - core. Of course, there are still some opportunities for - eliminating common code across the decompressors, but this is - a step in the right direction. This also changes the - decompression bid to multi-pass so that archive_read now - builds out a filter pipeline. This opens the door to - automatic uudecode and decryption support. (I have some ideas - for encryption support that I'd like to explore soon.) -Nov 01, 2008: lzma reader contributed by Miklos Vajna. I still have +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. -Oct 15, 2008: bsdtar and bsdcpio have custom command-line parsers now, - so we now have consistent long-option support on all platforms. +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 |