- portability fixes
- run format auction only once, simpler and more reliable
- speed up handling of uncompressed archives
- fix skipping of archive entries of exactly 4GB size on 32bit platforms
- fix reading files > 8 GB from tar archives
- many improvements for bsdcpio
* Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support for extended
attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
* Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz file that
builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
* correctly read cpio device entries, write Pax attribute entry names.
* Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback appreciated;
this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several
different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar
variants and several cpio formats. It can also write shar archives
and read ISO9660 CDROM images.
See http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/
