- bsdtar is using the hardlink resolver code from libarchive now,
making it generate correct links for newc format
- fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows
- SIGINFO/SIGUSR1 support for bsdtar
- bsdtar -s support
- better mtree support, it should now be able to handle the full syntax
of NetBSD's mtree
- handle extraction of archives where hardlink and linked to entry don't
agree on the permission (base.tgz has such entries for systat)
- fix bugs in link resolver, mostly affecting bsdcpio [from NetBSD]
- fix bsdcpio -p for hardlinks
- correctness improvements for directory name handling with ustar format
- handle empty filenames correctly
- allow bsdtar -r and -T to be used together as well as --format with -r
and -u.
- bsdpcio and bsdtar support more of the nbpax options
- linkify interface can handle all the known hardlink resolution
strategies
- mtree support extended, now it can almost process METALOG directly
- compress(1)-like write support
- fix gname/uname mixup
Major new features:
- work-in-progress cpio frontend
- much less data copying when handling uncompressed archives
- fix bugs for handling very large archives
- support for more zip archives and some of the self-extracting ones
Only the library, tar, the test suites for each and the NEWS are
imported, the rest is not used or currently not useful.
Patches for an aliasing violation and a ctype interface violation
are included, they are scheduled to be part of the next release.
joerg