From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Mon Jan 9 01:42:39 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E4ECA5448; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 01:42:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA89513E5; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 01:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v091gcXF002144; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 01:42:38 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v091gclh002143; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 01:42:38 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201701090142.v091gclh002143@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 01:42:38 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 01:42:39 -0000 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 @@ lirc with dfrobot's simple IR remote controller.

+ + + libarchive + + + + + Tim + Kientzle + + kientzle@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Martin + Matuska + + mm@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Official Libarchive Homepage + Libarchive on GitHub + + + +

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: bsdcat, bsdcpio and + bsdtar. The &os; tar and cpio + utilities are taken directly from Libarchive, and many other + important utilities like ar, unzip, and the + pkg package manager make use of libarchive's + functions.

+ +

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 libarchive has been added to the Google + OSS-Fuzz project. Fuzzing helped detect several hidden problems + like buffer overflows and memory leaks.

+ +

Over the last few months, NFSv4 ACL support for the pax and + restricted pax (the default for bsdtar) formats has + been completed and merged to &os;-CURRENT. NFSv4 ACL entries + can now be stored to and restored from tar archives.

+ + + + More extensive CI testing with &os; on different platforms + and releases. Currently only 11.0-RELEASE-amd64 gets tested via + an automated Jenkins job. + + 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. + +