svn commit: r49809 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Jan 9 01:42:39 UTC 2017

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
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--- 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 at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Martin</given>
+	  <common>Matuska</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mm at 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>
