2010-02-01: Released libzip 0.9.3

• Include m4/ directory in distribution; some packagers need it.

2010-01-31: Released libzip 0.9.2

• Avoid passing uninitialized data to deflate().

• Fix memory leak when closing zip archives.

2010-01-24: Released libzip 0.9.1

• Fix infinite loop on reading some broken files.

• Optimization in time conversion (don't call localtime()).

• Clear data descriptor flag in central directory, fixing Open Office files.

• Allow more than 64k entries.

2009-04-01: Mailing list of commit messages.

Commits to the libzip repository are now also available via a mailing list. To subscribe, send a mail with the subject subscribe libzip-changes to minimalist at nih.at.

2008-08-18: Major webpage overhaul.

The web page has been improved and new features have been added:

The repository browser is now integrated into the website; mailing list archives have been added; and news, release announcements. and commits are available as RSS feeds.

2008-07-25: Released libzip 0.9

• on Windows, explictly set dllimport/dllexport

• remove erroneous references to GPL

• add support for torrentzip

• new functions: zip_get_archive_flag, zip_set_archive_flag

• zip_source_zip: add flag to force recompression

• zip_sorce_file: only keep file open while reading from it

2007-11-08: New libzip mailing list.

There is now a discussion mailing list for developers using libzip. You can subscribe to it by sending a mail with the subject subscribe libzip-discuss to minimalist at nih.at.

2007-06-06: Released libzip 0.8

• fix for zip archives larger than 2GiB

• fix zip_error_strerror to include libzip error string

• add support for reading streamed zip files

• new functions: zip_add_dir, zip_error_clear, zip_file_error_clear

• add basic support for building with CMake (incomplete)

2007-05-16: Switched from CVS to Mercurial.

We switched from CVS to Mercurial, a distributed version control system.

anoncvs.nih.at has been replaced by hg.nih.at. See Mercurial Access for how to access the repositories.

2006-05-18: Released libzip 0.7.1

• bugfix for zip_close

2006-05-06: Released libzip 0.7

• struct zip_stat increased for future encryption support

• zip_add return value changed (now returns new index of added file)

• shared library major bump because of previous two

• added functions for reading and writing file and archive comments. New functions: zip_get_archive_comment, zip_get_file_comment, zip_set_archive_comment, zip_set_file_comment, zip_unchange_archive

2005-07-14: Released libzip 0.6.1

• various bug fixes

2005-06-09: Released libzip 0.6

• first standalone release

• changed license to three-clause BSD

• overhauled API

• added man pages

• install zipcmp and zipmerge