Libarchive 3.4.3 is a feature and bugfix release.
New features:
support for pzstd compressed files (#1357)
support for RHT.security.selinux tar extended attribute (#1348)
Important bugfixes:
various zstd fixes and improvements (#1342#1352#1359)
child process handling fixes (#1372)
Libarchive 3.4.2 is a feature and security release.
New features:
support for atomic file extraction (bsdtar -x --safe-writes) (#1289)
support for mbed TLS (PolarSSL) (#1301)
Important bugfixes:
security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1280#1326)
compression buffer fix in XAR writer (#1317)
fix uname and gname longer than 32 characters in PAX writer (#1319)
fix segfault when archiving hard links in ISO9660 and XAR writers (#1325)
fix support for extracting 7z archive entries with Delta filter (#987)
Libarchive 3.4.1 is a feature and security release.
New features:
Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
New pax write option "xattrhdr"
Important bugfixes:
security fixes in wide string processing (#1276#1298)
security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1212#1217#1296)
security fixes and optimizations to write filter logic (#351)
security fix related to use of readlink(2) (1dae5a5)
sparse file handling fixes (#1218#1260)
Thanks to all contributors and bug reporters.
Special thanks to Christos Zoulas (@zoulasc) from NetBSD for the atomic file extraction feature.
- improvements for Android APK and JAR archives
- better support for non-recursive list and extract
- tar --exclude-vcs support
- fixes for file attributes and flags handling
- zipx support
- rar 5.0 reader
This is a maintenance update to fix issues with the new RAR seeking
feature. This new release also contains fixes for build failures when
building libarchive using Visual Studio 2012 and MinGW.
- Infrastructure:
- Allow command line tools as fallback for missing compression
libraries. If compiled without gzip for example, gunzip will
be used automatically.
- Improved support for a number of platforms like high-resolution
timestamps and Extended Attributes on various Unix systems
- New convience interface for creating archives based on disk content,
complement of the archive_write_disk interface.
- Frontends:
- bsdcpio ready for public consumption
- hand-written date parser replaces the yacc code
- Filter system:
- Simplified read filter chains
- Option support for filters
- LZMA, XZ, uudecode handled
- Format support:
- Write support for mtree files based on file system or archive
content
- Basic read support for Joliet
- Write support for zip files
- Write support for shar archives, both text-only and binary-safe
