0.6.2.0 Bodigrim andrew.lelechenko@gmail.com March 2024

• Fix issues with Unicode support in filenames.

0.6.1.0 Bodigrim andrew.lelechenko@gmail.com January 2024

• Support Unicode in filenames (encoded as UTF-8).
• Reduce peak memory consumption when unpacking large files.

0.6.0.0 Bodigrim andrew.lelechenko@gmail.com December 2023

This release features support for long file paths and symlinks (thanks to Julian Ospald) and variety of changes and improvements across entire package, fixing multiple causes of silent data corruption.

Breaking changes:

• Generalize Entries, Entry and EntryContent to GenEntries, GenEntry and GenEntryContent.
  • Functions working on entries have been generalized to more polymorphic types, where possible.
  • Modules which used to import Codec.Archive.Tar (Entry(..)) should now import Codec.Archive.Tar (Entry, pattern Entry) and similar for other Gen-types. Another option is to import the entire module qualified.
• Redesign Codec.Archive.Tar.Check.
  • Change types of checkSecurity, checkTarbomb, checkPortability.
  • Add offending path as new field to TarBombError constructor.
  • Extend FileNameError with UnsafeLinkTarget constructor.
• Drop deprecated emptyIndex and finaliseIndex.

Examples of migration:

• hackage-security
• archive-backpack
• keter
• libarchive
• cabal-install
• ghcup
• hackage-server

Bug fixes:

• Add support for over-long filepaths via GNU extension.
  • Now entryPath corresponds to an internal, low-level path, limited to 255 characters. To list filenames properly use decodeLongNames, followed by entryTarPath.
• Fix handling of hardlinks and symlinks.
• Handle > 8 GB files insted of silent corruption.
• Prohibit non-ASCII file names instead of silent corruption.
• Set permissions on extracted files.
• Ignore FAT32 errors when setting modification time.
• Switch to trailer parsing mode only after a full block of NUL.

New API:

• Add Traversable Entries instance.
• Add toTarPath', ToTarPathResult, longLinkEntry, longSymLinkEntry.
• Add packSymlinkEntry and symbolicLinkPermission.
• Add packAndCheck and unpackAndCheck.
• Add checkEntrySecurity, checkEntryTarbomb and checkEntryPortability.
• Add encodeLongNames, decodeLongNames, DecodeLongNamesError.

Improvements:

• Speed up fromTarPath, fromTarPathToPosixPath and fromTarPathToWindowsPath.
• Alleviate leakage of file handles in packFileEntry.
• Fix tests on 32-bit architectures.

0.5.1.1 Herbert Valerio Riedel hvr@gnu.org August 2019

• Add support for GHC 8.8.1 / base-4.13

0.5.1.0 Herbert Valerio Riedel hvr@gnu.org March 2018

• Add support for GHC 8.4.1 / base-4.11
• Add Semigroup instance for Entries

0.5.0.3 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org May 2016

• Fix tarbomb logic to ignore special PAX entries. Was breaking many valid tarballs. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/3390

0.5.0.2 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org April 2016

• Fix compatability when using ghc-7.4.x and directory >= 1.2.3

0.5.0.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Fix compatability with directory-1.2.3+

0.5.0.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Work with old version of bytestring (using bytestring-builder package).
• Builds with GHC 6.10 -- 8.0.
• Change type of Index.serialise to be simply strict bytestring.
• Preserve file timestamps on unpack (with directory-1.2.3+)

0.4.5.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Revert accidental minor API change in 0.4.x series (the type of the owner and group name strings). The 0.4.3.0 and 0.4.4.0 releases contained the accidental API change.
• Add a handy foldlEntries function

0.4.4.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Build and warning fixes for GHC 7.10 and 8.0
• New Index module function toList to get all index entries

0.4.3.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• New Index function unfinalise to extend existing index
• 9x faster reading
• 9x faster index construction
• 24x faster index extension
• More compact entry types, using ByteStrings
• More Eq and Show instances
• Greater QC test coverage
• Fix minor bug in reading non-standard v7 format entries

0.4.2.2 Edsko de Vries edsko@well-typed.com October 2015

• Fix bug in Index

0.4.2.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org July 2015

• Fix tests for the Index modules (the code was right)

0.4.2.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org July 2015

• New Index module for random access to tar file contents
• New lower level tar file I/O actions
• New tarball file 'append' action

0.4.1.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2015

• Build with GHC 7.10
• Switch from old-time to time package
• Added more instance for Entries type

0.4.0.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org October 2012

• fixes to work with directory 1.2
• More Eq/Ord instances

0.4.0.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org February 2012

• More explicit error types and error handling
• Support star base-256 number format
• Improved API documentation