I'm pleased to announce the availability of xar 1.4.

xar is a new archiver, with a library and new archive format. xar is designed to preserve the plethora of metadata associated with files in modern operating systems, including Extended Attributes and ACLs on Mac OS X 10.4, Linux, and FreeBSD. Additionally, it can preserve resource forks and finder metadata on Mac OS X 10.3.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix a bug when archiving broken symlinks
• Fix several memory leaks
• Fix handling of base64 encoding of non-latin1 filenames
• Use _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on systems that need it
• Enable DESTDIR usage
• bzip2 archival fix when hanging on some files
• Fixed a descriptor leak on darwin systems

Features:

• parse mach-o files and scripts. Record libraries linked against and interpreters of scripts.
• --exclude works for extraction as well as archival

Please see the web page for more details.

Rob Braun