Skip to content

Libarchive 3.7.3

Compare
Choose a tag to compare
@mmatuska mmatuska released this 08 Apr 10:14
· 37 commits to master since this release

Libarchive 3.7.3 is a feature, security and bugfix release.

New features:

  • PCRE2 support (#2031)
  • add trailing letter b to bsdtar(1) substitute pattern (#2012)
  • add support for long options "--group" and "--owner" to tar(1) (#2054)

Security fixes:

  • Fix possible vulnerability in tar error reporting introduced in f27c173 (#2101)

Important bugfixes:

  • ISO9660: preserve the natural order of links (#1974)
  • rar5: fix decoding unicode filenames on Windows (#1978)
  • rar5: fix infinite loop if during rar5 decompression the last block produced no data (#2105)
  • xz filter: fix incorrect eof at the end of an lzip member (#2027)
  • zip: fix end-of-data marker processing when decompressing zip archives (#2042)
  • multiple bsdunzip(1) fixes (#2022, #2030)
  • filetime truncation fix on Windows (#2050)

Thanks to all contributors and bug reporters.