Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 01:42:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49809 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201701090142.v091gclh002143@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Jan 9 01:42:37 2017 New Revision: 49809 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49809 Log: Add libarchive entry from mm Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Mon Jan 9 00:27:15 2017 (r49808) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Mon Jan 9 01:42:37 2017 (r49809) @@ -255,4 +255,65 @@ <tt>lirc</tt> with dfrobot's simple IR remote controller.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='bin'> + <title>libarchive</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Tim</given> + <common>Kientzle</common> + </name> + <email>kientzle@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Martin</given> + <common>Matuska</common> + </name> + <email>mm@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.libarchive.org">Official Libarchive Homepage</url> + <url href="https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive">Libarchive on GitHub</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Libarchive is a BSD-licensed archive and compression library + originally developed as part of &os;. It supports a wide + variety of input and output formats and also includes three + command-line tools: <tt>bsdcat</tt>, <tt>bsdcpio</tt> and + <tt>bsdtar</tt>. The &os; <tt>tar</tt> and <tt>cpio</tt> + utilities are taken directly from Libarchive, and many other + important utilities like <tt>ar</tt>, <tt>unzip</tt>, and the + <tt>pkg</tt> package manager make use of <tt>libarchive</tt>'s + functions.</p> + + <p>Libarchive development in 2016 has been focusing on bug fixes + and code cleanup, including fixing several critical security + issues. Automated testing with Travis CI and Jenkins has been + introduced and <tt>libarchive</tt> has been added to the Google + OSS-Fuzz project. Fuzzing helped detect several hidden problems + like buffer overflows and memory leaks.</p> + + <p>Over the last few months, NFSv4 ACL support for the pax and + restricted pax (the default for <tt>bsdtar</tt>) formats has + been completed and merged to &os;-CURRENT. NFSv4 ACL entries + can now be stored to and restored from tar archives.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>More extensive CI testing with &os; on different platforms + and releases. Currently only 11.0-RELEASE-amd64 gets tested via + an automated Jenkins job.</task> + + <task>As every commit to libarchive may influence the build + process of &os; ports, the ability to trigger a (semi-)automated + exp-run for the ports tree would be great.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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