5.3

Changes to the library:

• The ArchiveWrite.add_files() method has a new symlink_mode argument. (#137)
• The ArchiveEntry class has a new stored_digests property and new methods get_stored_digest and set_stored_digest. (#138)

5.2

Change to the library: fix inoperative pathname argument of add_files method (#135), by @nvinson.

Change to the tests: update a test to handle new libarchive versions (#131).

Change to the packaging: stop building “universal” wheels (f17af6e).

5.1

Fix the format_name property and move it from the ArchiveEntry class to the ArchiveRead class (#127).

5.0

Changes to the library:

• It is now possible to specify a codec for archive entry metadata (pathname, linkpath, uname and gname) (#125).
  • BREAKING: If you use the archive_read_class and archive_write_class arguments, the classes you provide will receive a codec name as a second positional argument.
• The timestamp_nsec arguments of the legacy ArchiveEntry.set_{a,c,m}time methods are now optional (#123).

Changes to the tests and packaging:

• Removed obsolete dependencies (mock and six) from tox.ini (#119).
• Always use UTF-8 when reading the PKG-INFO and README.rst files (#120).
• Replaced pytest-xdist with pytest-forked in tox.ini (#124).
• Dropped testing with Python 3.7. Added 3.10 and 3.11 (#124).

4.0

• BREAKING & SECURITY: The archive extraction functions now pass 3 security flags (SECURE_NODOTDOT, SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS and SECURE_SYMLINKS) to libarchive by default, unless the current directory is the root.
• BREAKING: The ArchiveEntry properties atime, mtime, ctime, birthtime and size now have the value None instead of 0 when they're unset.
• BREAKING: The ArchiveEntry.pathname property now attempts to decode bytes using UTF-8. This breaks reading archives that contain file names which look like UTF-8 but aren't, if such a thing exists. Proper support of encodings will probably be added in the next version.
• Multiple entries from the same archive can now be kept in memory, however only the current entry's content can be read.
• The filetype, linkpath, size, mode, redvmajor, redvminor, uid and gid attributes of an archive entry can now be modified.
• The four time properties of archive entries now have setters, so for example entry.set_mtime(0, 0) can be replaced by entry.mtime = 0.
• Archive entries have 4 new properties: perm, rdev, uname and gname.
• When adding files to an archive, a destination path can now be specified.
• The ArchiveRead class now has a bytes_read property.
• The ArchiveWrite class now has a bytes_written property.
• Python 3.6 is no longer tested.
• The documentation has been improved.

3.2

This release fixes the seek callbacks passed to libarchive by the custom_reader and stream_reader function. See #116 for more details.

3.1

This release is mostly meant to fix #113 (a bug introduced in 3.0), but it also contains the following changes:

• the ffi.archive_error() function now returns an exception instead of raising it
• seekable_stream_reader is now an alias of stream_reader
• the misleadingly named ffi.VOID_CB function has been removed

3.0

Changes to the library:

• BREAKING: dropped support for Python 2.7 (#108)
• implemented reading and writing encrypted archives (#109)
• created a new context manager: seekable_stream_reader (#107)
• added support for 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems (#101)
• load extra formats and filters when they're requested (#95)

Tests:

• dropped testing with Python 2.7 and 3.5, added 3.9 (#108)

2.9

Changes to the library:

• optimized the ArchiveEntry class (#94)
• added support for the zstd format (#90)
• fixed the top-level __all__ list (7b97d8b)
• updated the code to support Python 3.8 (#88)
• improved the add_file_from_memory method (#85 and #86)
• lowered the level of log messages from warning to info (#83)

Tests:

• dropped testing with Python 3.4, added 3.7 and 3.8 (#88)
• fixed unicode handling in entry tests (#84)

2.8

Changes to the library:

• add support for setting atime, ctime, mtime and birthtime (#50 and #63)
• tell libarchive when writing an archive is aborted due to an exception (#53)
• add support for getting uid and gid (#57)
• add support for high resolution timestamps (#58)
• add two new archive readers: stream_reader and custom_reader (#60)
• add missing archive extraction flags (#61)
• add the lz4 and warc formats (#62)
• add support for write options and uid/gid lookup (#72)

Tests:

• drop python 3.3 and add 3.6
• add segfault detection (#59)
• test against libarchive 3.3.2 instead of 3.1.2 (#70)