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-Jun 30, 2010: libarchive 2.8.4 released
-Jun 30, 2010: Improved reliability of hash function detection
-Jun 30, 2010: Fix issues on ancient FreeBSD, QNX, ancient NetBSD and Minux
+Jun 20, 2016: libarchive 3.2.1 released
+ This fixes a handful of security and other critical issues with 3.2.0
-Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.3 released
-Mar 14, 2010: Symlink dereference fix for Linux broke the build there; corrected.
+May 01, 2016: libarchive 3.2.0 released
-Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.2 released
-Mar 12, 2010: Fix NULL deference for short self-extracting zip archives.
-Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
-Mar 07, 2010: Better detection of SHA2 support for old OpenSSL versions.
-Mar 07, 2010: Fix parsing of input files for bsdtar -T.
-Mar 07, 2010: Do not leak setup_xattr into the global namespace.
+Apr 09, 2016: libarchive 3.1.901a released
+ Another test release in preparation for 3.2.0
+
+Feb 13, 2016: libarchive 3.1.900a released
+ This is a test release in preparation for 3.2.0
+
+Oct 21, 2015: Preliminary port to OSF
+
+Apr 11, 2015: libarchive's issue tracker is now hosted at GitHub.
+ https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues
+
+Early 2015: Many fixes to crash and overflow bugs thanks to Hanno Boeck
+
+Oct 13, 2014: Zip encryption and decryption support
+
+Aug 13, 2014: Add support for lz4 compression.
+
+Jun 10, 2014: Add warc format support
+
+May 3, 2014: Add experimental Zip streaming extension
+
+Apr 6, 2014: Add bsdcat command-line tool
+
+Jan 12, 2014: Add Zip64 support
+
+Dec 1, 2013: Rewrite Zip write logic
+
+Jul 1, 2013: Add ability to detect encrypted entries for many formats
+ (This does not add the ability to *decrypt* those entries, however)
+
+Feb 23, 2013: "raw" write support added
+
+Feb 09, 2013: libarchive 3.1.2 released
-Mar 06, 2010: libarchive 2.8.1 released
+Jan 28, 2013: libarchive's new website moved to http://www.libarchive.org.
+
+Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.1 released
+
+Jan 13, 2013: libarchive 3.1.0 released
+
+Dec 07, 2012: Implement functions to manually set the format and filters used.
+
+Nov 11, 2012: Add support for __MACOSX directory in Zip archives, which resource
+ forks are stored in.
+
+Oct 20, 2012: Add support for writing v7 tar format.
+
+Oct 09, 2012: Add support for grzip compression.
+
+Oct 07, 2012: Introduce b64encode filter.
+Oct 07, 2012: Introduce uuencode filter.
+
+Oct 06, 2012: Add support for lzop.
+
+Sep 27, 2012: Implement function used to seek within data blocks.
+ (Currently only supported for uncompressed RAR archives).
+
+Apr 22, 2012: Add basic archive read and write filter support for lrzip.
+
+Mar 27, 2012: libarchive 3.0.4 released
+
+Feb 05, 2012: libarchive development now hosted at GitHub.
+ http://libarchive.github.com/
+Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's issue tracker remains at Google Code.
+ http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list
+Feb 05, 2012: libarchive's mailing lists remain at Google Groups.
+
+Dec 24, 2011: libarchive 3.0.2 released
+Dec 23, 2011: Various fixes merged from FreeBSD
+Dec 23, 2011: Symlink support in Zip reader and writer
+Dec 23, 2011: Robustness fixes to 7Zip reader
+
+Nov 27, 2011: libarchive 3.0.1b released
+
+Nov 26, 2011: 7Zip reader
+Nov 26, 2011: Small fixes to ISO and Zip to improve robustness with corrupted input
+Nov 24, 2011: Improve streaming Zip reader's support for uncompressed entries
+Nov 20, 2011: New seeking Zip reader supports SFX Zip archives
+Nov 20, 2011: Build fixes on Windows
+
+Nov 13, 2011: libarchive 3.0.0a released
+
+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
-Mar 03, 2010: Use O_BINARY opening files in bsdtar
-Mar 02, 2010: Include missing archive_crc32.h
-Mar 01, 2010: Correctly include iconv.h required by libxml2.
+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: Performance: 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'