- 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