libarchive/libarchive v3.3.0

Feature and Security Release

on GitHub

Note: We found some last-minute issues with v3.3.0 and will release v3.3.1 to address those very shortly.

Libarchive 3.3.0 is a feature and security release. Over 20 people contributed to this release; only a few of whom are mentioned below. Thanks to everyone who has invested their time and effort to make libarchive such a great piece of software.

Highlights:

• Tar format can archive and restore NFSv4 ACLs on FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. This is fully interoperable with star.
• Tar format can read and write SCHILY.xattr extended file attributes in addition to the LIBARCHIVE.xattr format, thanks to Stefan Berger. This provides compatibility with archives created by star and GNU tar.
• Many bugs reported by the OSS-Fuzz project have been fixed.
• Ngie Cooper fixed a number of issues reported by the Coverity source scanner.
• Jan Osusky contributed improvements to libarchive's file detection logic.

Note for package maintainers:

• Linking libarchive against liblzo violates LZO GPL licence. Please don't distribute binary packages of libarchive linked against liblzo.