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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.8.5, Package name: libarchive-3.8.5, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several
different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants
and several cpio formats. It can also write shar archives and read
ISO9660 CDROM images.


Required to run:
[security/openssl]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Version history: (Expand)

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   2026-01-06 12:55:24 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (119) | Package updated
Log message:
libarchive: updated to 3.8.5

3.8.5

Notable bugxies:

bsdtar: fix regression from 3.8.4 zero-length pattern issue bugfix
various small bugfixes in code and documentation
   2026-01-06 12:45:04 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (48) | Imported package
Log message:
libarchive: import version 3.8.5
   2025-12-23 15:01:24 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (111) | Package updated
Log message:
libarchive: updated to 3.8.4

3.8.4

Notable bugxies:

bsdtar: Fix zero-length pattern issue
lib: Fix regression introduced in libarchive 3.8.2 when walking enterable but \ 
unreadable directories
   2025-12-23 14:41:54 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (1) | Imported package
Log message:
libarchive: import 3.8.4
   2025-11-20 07:08:28 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (137) | Package updated
Log message:
libarchive: updated to 3.8.3

Libarchive 3.8.3 is a bugfix and security release.

Security fixes:

lib: Create temporary files in the target directory
lha: Fix for an out-of-bounds buffer overrun when using p[H_LEVEL_OFFSET]
7-zip: Fix a buffer overrun when reading truncated 7zip headers

Notable bugxies:

lz4 and zstd: Support both lz4 and zstd data with leading skippable frames
   2025-11-20 06:52:46 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Imported package
Log message:
libarchive: import version 3.8.3
   2025-11-02 09:52:16 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (187) | Package updated
Log message:
libarchive: updated to 3.8.2

Libarchive 3.8.2 is a bugfix and security release.

Security fixes:

7zip: Fix out of boundary access
tar reader: fix checking the result of the strftime

Notable bugfixes:

bsdtar: Allow filename to have CRLF endings
lib: archive_read_data: handle sparse holes at end of file correctly
lib: improve filter process handling
lib: fix error checking in writing files
lib: handle possible errors from system calls
lib: avoid leaking file descriptors into subprocesses
lib: parse_date: handle dates in 2038 and beyond if time_t is big enough
RAR5 reader: fix multiple issues in extra field parsing function
RAR5 reader: early fail when file declares data for a dir entry
tar writer: fix replacing a regular file with a dir for ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SAFE_WRITES
tar reader (Windows): check WCS pathname in header_gnutar before overwriting
tar reader: fix an infinite loop when parsing V headers
zip writer: fix a memory leak if write callback error early
zip writer: fix writing with ZSTD compression
zstd write filter: enable Zstandard's checksum feature
   2025-11-02 09:33:33 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (11) | Imported package
Log message:
libarchive: imported version 3.8.2