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Libarchive 3.4.2

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4 years ago

Libarchive 3.4.2 is a feature and security release.

New features:

  • support for atomic file extraction (bsdtar -x --safe-writes) (#1289)
  • support for mbed TLS (PolarSSL) (#1301)

Important bugfixes:

  • security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1280 #1326)
  • compression buffer fix in XAR writer (#1317)
  • fix uname and gname longer than 32 characters in PAX writer (#1319)
  • fix segfault when archiving hard links in ISO9660 and XAR writers (#1325)
  • fix support for extracting 7z archive entries with Delta filter (#987)

Thanks to all contributors and bug reporters.
Special thanks to Christos Zoulas (@zoulasc) from NetBSD for the atomic file extraction feature.

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