I will use this thead to collect some information about which features from upstream might hit Disco and which new features currently hit the repos.
Everybody is welcome to discuss of course
LIBARCHIVE
One package that hit the release repo recently is libarchive 3.3.3. That is a good thing since Debian and Ubuntu already skipped the versions 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 and i wasnât too sure if it would be merged in time.
The new big new feature for libarchive will be zstandard support, the new Facebook compressor that is getting more and more widespread. Keep in mind that Nautilus and FIle Roller use libarchive for compression and decompression tasks.
Changelog since 3.2.2:
03, 2018: libarchive 3.3.3 released
Jul 19, 2018: Avoid super-linear slowdown on malformed mtree files
Jan 27, 2018: Many fixes for building with Visual Studio
Oct 19, 2017: NO_OVERWRITE doesnât change existing directory attributes
Aug 12, 2017: New support for Zstandard read and write filters
Jul 09, 2017: libarchive 3.3.2 released
Mar 16, 2017: NFSv4 ACL support for Linux (librichacl)
Feb 26, 2017: libarchive 3.3.1 released
Security & Feature releaseFeb 19, 2017: libarchive 3.3.0 released
Security & Feature releaseJan 29, 2017: Limited NFSv4 ACL support for Mac OS (Darwin)
Jan 10, 2017: POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL support for Solaris and derivates
Dec 27, 2016: NFSv4 ACL read and write support for pax
Deprecated functions: archive_entry_acl_text(), archive_entry_acl_text_w()Nov, 2016: libarchive is now being tested by the OSS-Fuzz project
Oct 26, 2016: Remove liblzmadec support
Next in the libarchive pipeline is RAR 5 decoding support. But probably not in time for DiscoâŠ