History.md in minitar-0.12.1 vs History.md in minitar-1.0.0
- old
+ new
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
# History
-## 0.12.1 / 2024-08-21
+## 1.0.0 / 2024-08-07
-- Reverted @adbbb9b596 to restore compatibility with Ruby < 2.0. Resolves
- [#63][#63] reported by Robert Schulze.
+- Breaking Changes:
+ - Minimum Ruby version is 3.1.
+
+ - The `Archive::Tar::Minitar` namespace has been completely removed and
+ `Minitar` is a class instead of a module.
+
+- Enhancements:
+
+ - Added `Minitar.pack_as_file`, originally proposed by John Prince back in
+ 2011 [#7][#7].
+
## 0.12 / 2024-08-06
- Properly handle very long GNU filenames, resolving [#46][#46].
- Handle very long GNU filenames that are 512 or more bytes, resolving
[#45][#45]. Originally implemented in [#47][#47] by Vijay, but accidentally
@@ -15,24 +24,24 @@
## 0.11 / 2022-12-31
- symlink support is complete. Merged as PR [#42][#42], rebased and built on top
of PR [#12][#12] by fetep.
-- kymmt90 fixed a documentation error on Minitar.pack in PR [#43][#43].
+- kymmt90 fixed a documentation error on `Minitar.pack` in PR [#43][#43].
- This version is a soft-deprecation of all versions before Ruby 2.7, as they
will no longer be tested in CI.
## 0.10 / 2022-03-26
- nevesenin fixed an issue with long filename handling. Merged as PR [#40][#40].
## 0.9 / 2019-09-04
-- jtappa added the ability to skip fsync with a new option to Minitar.unpack and
- Minitar::Input#extract_entry. Provide `:fsync => false` as the last parameter
- to enable. Merged from a modified version of PR [#37][#37].
+- jtappa added the ability to skip fsync with a new option to `Minitar.unpack`
+ and `Minitar::Input#extract_entry`. Provide `:fsync => false` as the last
+ parameter to enable. Merged from a modified version of PR [#37][#37].
## 0.8 / 2019-01-05
- inkstak resolved an issue introduced in the fix for [#31][#31] by allowing
spaces to be considered valid characters in strict octal handling. Octal
@@ -48,14 +57,15 @@
on decode.
## 0.7 / 2018-02-19
- Fixed issue [#28][#28] with a modified version of PR [#29][#29] covering the
- security policy and position for Minitar. Thanks so much to ooooooo_q for the
- report and an initial patch. Additional information was added as [#30][#30].
+ security policy and position for `Minitar`. Thanks so much to ooooooo_q for
+ the report and an initial patch. Additional information was added as
+ [#30][#30].
-- dearblue contributed PR [#33][#33] providing a fix for Minitar::Reader when
+- dearblue contributed PR [#33][#33] providing a fix for `Minitar::Reader` when
the IO-like object does not have a `#pos` method.
- Kevin McDermott contributed PR [#34][#34] so that an InvalidTarStream is
raised if the tar header is not valid, preventing incorrect streaming of files
from a non-tarfile. This is a minor breaking change, so the version has been
@@ -64,11 +74,11 @@
- Kazuyoshi Kato contributed PR [#26][#26] providing support for the GNU tar
long filename extension.
- Addressed a potential DOS with negative size fields in tar headers
([#31][#31]). This has been handled in two ways: the size field in a tar
- header is interpreted as a strict octal value and the Minitar reader will
+ header is interpreted as a strict octal value and the `Minitar` reader will
raise an InvalidTarStream if the size ends up being negative anyway.
## 0.6.1 / 2017-02-07
- Fixed issue [#24][#24] where streams were being improperly closed immediately
@@ -84,76 +94,77 @@
- Extracted `bin/minitar` into a new gem, `minitar-cli`. No, I am _not_ going
to bump the major version for this. As far as I can tell, few people use the
command-line utility anyway. (Installing `archive-tar-minitar` will install
both `minitar` and `minitar-cli`, at least until version 1.0.)
- - Minitar extraction before 0.6 traverses directories if the tarball includes
- a relative directory reference, as reported in [#16][#16] by @ecneladis.
- This has been disallowed entirely and will throw a SecureRelativePathError
- when found. Additionally, if the final destination of an entry is an
- already-existing symbolic link, the existing symbolic link will be removed
- and the file will be written correctly (on platforms that support symblic
- links).
+ - `Minitar` extraction before 0.6 traverses directories if the tarball
+ includes a relative directory reference, as reported in [#16][#16] by
+ @ecneladis. This has been disallowed entirely and will throw a
+ `SecureRelativePathError` when found. Additionally, if the final destination
+ of an entry is an already-existing symbolic link, the existing symbolic link
+ will be removed and the file will be written correctly (on platforms that
+ support symbolic links).
- Enhancements:
- Licence change. After speaking with Mauricio Fernández, we have changed the
licensing of this library to Ruby and Simplified BSD and have dropped the
GNU GPL license. This takes effect from the 0.6 release.
- - Printing a deprecation warning for including Archive::Tar to put Minitar in
- the top-level namespace.
- - Printing a deprecation warning for including Archive::Tar::Minitar into a
- class (Minitar will be a class for version 1.0).
- - Moved Archive::Tar::PosixHeader to Archive::Tar::Minitar::PosixHeader with a
- deprecation warning. Do not depend on Archive::Tar::Minitar::PosixHeader, as
- it will be moving to ::Minitar::PosixHeader in a future release.
- - Added an alias, ::Minitar, for Archive::Tar::Minitar, opted in with
+ - Printing a deprecation warning for including Archive::Tar to put `Minitar`
+ in the top-level namespace.
+ - Printing a deprecation warning for including `Archive::Tar::Minitar` into a
+ class (`Minitar` will be a class for version 1.0).
+ - Moved `Archive::Tar::PosixHeader` to `Archive::Tar::Minitar::PosixHeader`
+ with a deprecation warning. Do not depend on
+ `Archive::Tar::Minitar::PosixHeader`, as it will be moving to
+ `::Minitar::PosixHeader` in a future release.
+ - Added an alias, `::Minitar`, for `Archive::Tar::Minitar`, opted in with
`require 'minitar'`. In future releases, this alias will be enabled by
- default, and the Archive::Tar namespace will be removed entirely for version
- 1.0.
- - Modified the handling of `mtime` in PosixHeader to do an integer conversion
- (#to_i) so that a Time object can be used instead of the integer value of
- the time object.
- - Writer::RestrictedStream was renamed to Writer::WriteOnlyStream for clarity.
- No alias or deprecation warning was provided for this as it is an internal
- implementation detail.
- - Writer::BoundedStream was renamed to Writer::BoundedWriteStream for clarity.
- A deprecation warning is provided on first use because a BoundedWriteStream
- may raise a BoundedWriteStream::FileOverflow exception.
- - Writer::BoundedWriteStream::FileOverflow has been renamed to
- Writer::WriteBoundaryOverflow and inherits from StandardError instead of
- RuntimeError. Note that for Ruby 2.0 or higher, an error will be raised when
- specifying Writer::BoundedWriteStream::FileOverflow because
- Writer::BoundedWriteStream has been declared a private constant.
- - Modified Writer#add_file_simple to accept the data for a file in
+ default, and the `Archive::Tar` namespace will be removed entirely for
+ version 1.0.
+ - Modified the handling of `mtime` in `PosixHeader` to do an integer
+ conversion (`#to_i`) so that a Time object can be used instead of the
+ integer value of the time object.
+ - `Writer::RestrictedStream` was renamed to `Writer::WriteOnlyStream` for
+ clarity. No alias or deprecation warning was provided for this as it is an
+ internal implementation detail.
+ - `Writer::BoundedStream` was renamed to `Writer::BoundedWriteStream` for
+ clarity. A deprecation warning is provided on first use because a
+ BoundedWriteStream may raise a `BoundedWriteStream::FileOverflow` exception.
+ - `Writer::BoundedWriteStream::FileOverflow` has been renamed to
+ `Writer::WriteBoundaryOverflow` and inherits from `StandardError` instead of
+ `RuntimeError`. Note that for Ruby 2.0 or higher, an error will be raised
+ when specifying `Writer::BoundedWriteStream::FileOverflow` because
+ `Writer::BoundedWriteStream` has been declared a private constant.
+ - Modified `Writer#add_file_simple` to accept the data for a file in
`opts[:data]`. When `opts[:data]` is provided, a stream block must not be
provided. Improved the documentation for this method.
- - Modified Writer#add_file to accept `opts[:data]` and transparently call
- Writer#add_file_simple in this case.
+ - Modified `Writer#add_file` to accept `opts[:data]` and transparently call
+ `Writer#add_file_simple` in this case.
- Methods that require blocks are no longer required, so the
- Archive::Tar::Minitar::BlockRequired exception has been removed with a
+ `Archive::Tar::Minitar::BlockRequired` exception has been removed with a
warning (this may not work on Ruby 1.8).
- Dramatically reduced the number of strings created when creating a POSIX
tarball header.
- - Added a helper, Input.each_entry that iterates over each entry in an opened
- entry object.
+ - Added a helper, `Input.each_entry` that iterates over each entry in an
+ opened entry object.
- Bugs:
- Fix [#2][#2] to handle IO streams that are not seekable, such as pipes,
- STDIN, or STDOUT.
+ `STDIN`, or `STDOUT`.
- Fix [#3][#3] to make the test timezone resilient.
- Fix [#4][#4] for supporting the reading of tar files with filenames in the
GNU long filename extension format. Ported from @atoulme’s fork, originally
provided by Curtis Sampson.
- Fix [#6][#6] by making it raise the correct error for a long filename with
no path components.
- Fix [#13][#13] provided by @fetep fixes an off-by-one error on filename
splitting.
- Fix [#14][#14] provided by @kzys should fix Windows detection issues.
- Fix [#16][#16] as specified above.
- - Fix an issue where Minitar.pack would not include Unix hidden files when
+ - Fix an issue where `Minitar.pack` would not include Unix hidden files when
creating a tarball.
- Development:
- Modernized minitar tooling around Hoe.
@@ -176,10 +187,11 @@
[#2]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/2
[#3]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/3
[#4]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/4
[#6]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/6
+[#7]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/7
[#12]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/pull/12
[#13]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/13
[#14]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/14
[#16]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
[#23]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/23
@@ -199,6 +211,5 @@
[#42]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/pull/42
[#43]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/pull/43
[#45]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/45
[#46]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/46
[#47]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/pull/47
-[#63]: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/63