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author | Tim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com> | 2009-04-08 03:05:42 -0400 |
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committer | Tim Kientzle <kientzle@gmail.com> | 2009-04-08 03:05:42 -0400 |
commit | 0573c4e42266f4f2993b3fab85b3ffd50f4904a6 (patch) | |
tree | 4e91768378719d67c9ee98e8b0361f23a56c7854 /NEWS | |
parent | ca3d1866af92a9936263cb28e839c7f236e2592c (diff) | |
download | libarchive-0573c4e42266f4f2993b3fab85b3ffd50f4904a6.tar.gz |
Summarize work since 2.6.
SVN-Revision: 937
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,10 +1,32 @@ Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released -Jan 04, 2008: Major refactoring of read filter support. - +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. - Michihiro is the first person I know of to build and run - the libarchive test suite in this environment. Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more @@ -366,7 +388,7 @@ Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking 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 + 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. |