Changes in this release:
* Clauses 3 and 4 of the BSD license used by the project were dropped.
All the code is now under a 2-clause BSD license compatible with the
GNU General Public License (GPL).
* Added a C-only binding so that binary test programs do not need to be
tied to C++ at all. This binding is now known as the atf-c library.
* Renamed the C++ binding to atf-c++ for consistency with the new atf-c.
* Renamed the POSIX shell binding to atf-sh for consistency with the new
atf-c and atf-c++.
* Added a -w flag to test programs through which it is possible to specify
the work directory to be used. This was possible in prior releases by
defining the workdir configuration variable (-v workdir=...), but was a
conceptually incorrect mechanism.
* Test programs now preserve the execution order of test cases when they
are given in the command line. Even those mentioned more than once are
executed multiple times to comply with the user's requests.
in which "/wherever/src.2/../tools" was incorrectly changed to
"/wherever/src./tools" instead of the desired "/wherever/tools".
It's not clear to me that this script has any business trying to do this
sort of rewriting (and there's no guarantee that "/wherever/foo/.." and
"/wherever" both refer to the same place), but at least the new code
tries to be more careful than the old code.
- 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
Changes in this release:
* Added two new manual pages, atf-c++-api and atf-sh-api, describing the
C++ and POSIX shell interfaces used to write test programs.
* Added a pkg-config file, useful to get the flags to build against the
C++ library or to easily detect the presence of ATF.
* Added a way for test cases to require a specific architecture and/or
machine type through the new 'require.arch' and 'require.machine'
meta-data properties, respectively.
* Added the 'timeout' property to test cases, useful to set an upper-bound
limit for the test's run time and thus prevent global test program stalls
due to the test case's misbehavior.
* Added the atf-exec(1) internal utility, used to execute a command after
changing the process group it belongs to.
* Added the atf-killpg(1) internal utility, used to kill process groups.
* Multiple portability fixes. Of special interest, full support for SunOS
(Solaris Express Developer Edition 2007/09) using the Sun Studio 12 C++
compiler.
* Fixed a serious bug that prevented atf-run(1) from working at all under
Fedora 8 x86_64. Due to the nature of the bug, other platforms were
likely affected too.
