Libarchive 3.3.1 feature and security release

[Tim Kientzle]

Libarchive 3.3.1 is now available at

https://libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-3.3.1.tar.gz

https://libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-3.3.1.zip

Libarchive 3.3.1 is a feature and security release. Over 20 people contributed fixes and improvements since 3.2.2; 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 now archive and restore NFSv4 ACLs on FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS thanks to Martin Matuška. 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.
• Jan Osusky contributed several improvements to libarchive's file detection logic.
• Many security bugs reported by the OSS-Fuzz project have been fixed
• Ngie Cooper fixed a number of issues reported by the Coverity source scanner.

Special thanks to the OSS-Fuzz project, who recently added libarchive to their fuzz-test cluster for ongoing verification.


SHA256 hashes of the official release archives above:

29ca5bd1624ca5a007aa57e16080262ab4379dbf8797f5c52f7ea74a3b0424e7 libarchive-3.3.1.tar.gz
2af56ff8428c8e896df98325509b361ce5d1328e2f0c1fcdc6bb38e24875f83b libarchive-3.3.1.zip