This file summarizes the major and interesting changes for each release. For a detailed list of changes, please see the git history.
- Support lzma compression (bug #8)
- Avoid
timespec
struct literal (LP: #2076903) - Include missing helper program name in error message (bug #4)
- Various changes to speed up
3cpio --list --verbose
to make 3cpio faster than bsdcpio in all benchmarks.
- support preserving the owner/group of symlinks
- Add
--verbose
mode to--list
mode. The output will be similar tocpio --list --verbose
andls -l
.
- 3cpio: fix setting the directory/file permissions (bug #5)
- Add support for extracting (
--extract
) cpio archives. New parameters are--directory
,--preserve-permissions
, and--subdir
. - Add
--verbose
and--debug
log levels
- Replace command line argument parser
gumdrop
bylexopt
, because the latter has no dependencies. - Drop
assert_cmd
andpredicates
dev dependencies.
- 3cpio: fix binary name in
--version
output
Initial release. 3cpio only supports examining (--examine
) and listing
(--list
) the content of the initramfs cpio.