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@mmatuska mmatuska released this 09 Feb 13:02
· 362 commits to master since this release

Libarchive 3.6.0 is a feature and bugfix release.

New features:

  • tar: new option "--no-read-sparse" (#1614)
  • tar: threads support for zstd (#1567)
  • RAR reader: filter support (#1503)
  • RAR5 reader: self-extracting archive support (#1585)
  • ZIP reader: zstd decompression support (#1518)

Other notable bugfixes and improvements:

  • tar: respect "--ignore-zeros" in c, r and u modes (#1620)
  • reduced size of application binaries (#1625)
  • internal code optimizations

Thanks to all contributors and bug reporters.