See also http://pvp.haskell.org/faq

0.6.3.2

• Fix bugs in untar for entries with long filenames

0.6.3.1

• Fix untar when links point to themselves

0.6.3.0

• Fix unpacking of hard links

0.6.2.0

• fix executable bit: https://github.com/haskell/tar/issues/25
• fix default permissions for directories (also set write for group)

0.6.1.3

• fix bug in 'unpack'

0.6.1.2

• fix hpath dependencies

0.6.1.1

• Use hpath-directory instead of hpath-io for a more lightweight dependency
• use safe-exceptions

0.6.1.0

• Use ByteString based filepaths to not break unicode

0.6.0.0 TODO

• Add offending path as new field to TarBombError constructor

0.5.1.1 Herbert Valerio Riedel hvr@gnu.org August 2019

• Add support for GHC 8.8.1 / base-4.13

0.5.1.0 Herbert Valerio Riedel hvr@gnu.org March 2018

• Add support for GHC 8.4.1 / base-4.11
• Add Semigroup instance for Entries

0.5.0.3 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org May 2016

• Fix tarbomb logic to ignore special PAX entries. Was breaking many valid tarballs. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/3390

0.5.0.2 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org April 2016

• Fix compatability when using ghc-7.4.x and directory >= 1.2.3

0.5.0.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Fix compatability with directory-1.2.3+

0.5.0.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Work with old version of bytestring (using bytestring-builder package).
• Builds with GHC 6.10 -- 8.0.
• Change type of Index.serialise to be simply strict bytestring.
• Preserve file timestamps on unpack (with directory-1.2.3+)

0.4.5.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Revert accidental minor API change in 0.4.x series (the type of the owner and group name strings). The 0.4.3.0 and 0.4.4.0 releases contained the accidental API change.
• Add a handy foldlEntries function

0.4.4.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• Build and warning fixes for GHC 7.10 and 8.0
• New Index module function toList to get all index entries

0.4.3.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

• New Index function unfinalise to extend existing index
• 9x faster reading
• 9x faster index construction
• 24x faster index extension
• More compact entry types, using ByteStrings
• More Eq and Show instances
• Greater QC test coverage
• Fix minor bug in reading non-standard v7 format entries

0.4.2.2 Edsko de Vries edsko@well-typed.com October 2015

• Fix bug in Index

0.4.2.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org July 2015

• Fix tests for the Index modules (the code was right)

0.4.2.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org July 2015

• New Index module for random access to tar file contents
• New lower level tar file I/O actions
• New tarball file 'append' action

0.4.1.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2015

• Build with GHC 7.10
• Switch from old-time to time package
• Added more instance for Entries type

0.4.0.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org October 2012

• fixes to work with directory 1.2
• More Eq/Ord instances

0.4.0.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org February 2012

• More explicit error types and error handling
• Support star base-256 number format
• Improved API documentation