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author | Tim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com> | 2011-11-12 20:59:20 -0500 |
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committer | Tim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com> | 2011-11-12 20:59:20 -0500 |
commit | 29afcad4cfc30b3292eae6f3766b6fcc957522fd (patch) | |
tree | da8411a37d0c11e5194d030cfe33cdee9483f209 /NEWS | |
parent | 7a8dcef3f12af99f3f906090692b1cd1091e8e20 (diff) | |
download | libarchive-29afcad4cfc30b3292eae6f3766b6fcc957522fd.tar.gz |
Update NEWS with a (very brief) summary of key changes since libarchive 2.8.
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@@ -1,3 +1,57 @@ +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: 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 |