Bit7z v4.0.10

Changes from v4.0.9

• Added support for disabling format detection via file extension (workaround for #277).
  • Now compiling the library with the options -DBIT7Z_AUTO_FORMAT=ON -DBIT7Z_DETECT_FROM_EXTENSION=OFF will make it only use file signatures for format detection.
• Added support for Zstd archive format.
• Fixed getting last error code on old versions of MSVC.
• Fixed and improved path sanitization (close issue #268).
• Fixed int8_t storage in BitPropVariant on Arm architectures.
• Fixed arm alignment compiler errors (by @petermarko in #286).
• Allowed specifying path to 7z library in tests (by @petermarko in #288).
  • Use the BIT7Z_TESTS_7Z_LIBRARY_PATH build option to set the path to 7-Zip shared library to be used for running the tests of bit7z.
• Allowed running tests on target when cross-compiling (by @petermarko in #289).
• Fixed BitArchiveReader's isMultiVolume() and volumesCount() (close issue #291).
  • Now these methods will take into account when a multi-volume archive is opened with the whole archive format rather than BitFormat::Split, and they will report the correct result.
• Fixed tests with musl (by @petermarko in #292).

New Contributors

• @petermarko made their first contribution in #286

Full Changelog: v4.0.9...v4.0.10

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Bit7z v4.0.9

Changes from v4.0.8:

• Fixed unbuffered streams causing poor performance with MSVC 2015 (by @C-53 in #250).
• Added support for checking archive start at the beginning of a file (closes #235 and #236).
• Fixed long path support for UNC paths (closes #240).
• Increased maximum dictionary size limit for LZMA (closes issue #256).
• Add support for using format properties in BitInputArchive (closes issue #248).
• Improved the error handling in OpenCallback.
• Improved Windows API usages in fsutil.
• Updated CPM.cmake to v0.40.2.
• Fixed missing change from v3 in README (closes issue #245).
• Fixed the badges in the README.
• Improved the README and the Wiki.

Full Changelog: v4.0.8...v4.0.9

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Bit7z v4.0.8

Changes from v4.0.7:

• Fixed missing header (gcc14) (by @SGSSGene in #218).
• Fixed build failing when cross-compiling using MinGW on Linux (closed issue #222).
• Fixed conversion from FILETIME to file_time_type when using libstdc++.
• Rewrote directory indexing algorithm to not use recursion (closed issue #223).
  • This fixes possible stack overflow errors that could happen while indexing deeply nested directory structures.
• Optimized BitArchiveReader::items().
• Optimized indexing of directories.
• Disabled buffering of file streams to improve performance (issue #224).
  • Now bit7z is considerably faster while reading and writing files during extraction and compression operations.
  • For example, this graph shows the improvement in the runtime of a test program between v4.0.7 and v4.0.8:
    
  • There is still some overhead compared to 7-zip which will require some more work. I plan to remove it for the next version v4.1.
• Fixed support for BSD operating systems (closed issue #230).
• Added BitOutputArchive::addDirectoryContents and BitFileCompressor::compressDirectoryContents methods (closed issue #226).

Full Changelog: v4.0.7...v4.0.8

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Bit7z v4.0.7

Changes from v4.0.6:

• Fixed missing conversion from tstring to path in BitItemsVector::indexPaths (closes #199).
• Updated project version in CMakeLists.txt.
• Fixed GitHub actions.
• Added nativePath() method to BitArchiveItem.
• Added support for recursively deleting the content of folder items within archives.
  • Previously, BitArchiveEditor could only delete the metadata of the folder, not its content.

    // Deleting all the content of the "folder".
    // Note: if no policy is passed, the method will still use the old behavior.
    editor.deleteItem("folder", DeletePolicy::RecurseDirs);

• Fixed BitOutputArchive::addFiles overloads.
  • Previously, the method overload prevented you from using the method's default arguments.
  • Now you can, for example, pass only one argument:

    // Adds all the files within the given path, recursively including the ones inside subfolders.
    // Previously, you had to explicitly do archive.addFiles("directory/path/", "*", true);
    archive.addFiles("directory/path/"); 

• Optimized BitArchiveReader::items().
  • From my tests, now the method is on average ~25% faster than before.
• Added missing headers in bit7z.hpp.
• Updated minimum required version of CMake.
• Improved and updated the README.

Full Changelog: v4.0.6...v4.0.7

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Bit7z v4.0.6

Changes from v4.0.5:

• Fixed creation and access time metadata of extracted files not being restored (partial fix for #184).
• Fixed error messages when opening file streams on MinGW.
• Fixed a linking issue with some versions of MinGW (issue #193).
• Fixed project version in CMakeLists.txt.
• Fixed BIT7Z_DISABLE_USE_STD_FILESYSTEM not working on old macOS toolchains (issue #194).
• Allowed to use BitInputArchive's ConstIterator in const variables.

Full Changelog: v4.0.5...v4.0.6

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Bit7z v4.0.5

Changes from v4.0.4:

• Fixed building using some versions of GCC.
• Fixed building using GCC on macOS.
• Fixed a missing nullptr check when extracting to a fixed-size buffer.
• Fixed the empty name file alias not being used in some edge cases.
• Added a check for invalid indices in BitInputArchive::extractTo.
• Avoided the unnecessary creation of a FilesystemItem object in OpenCallback.
• Added the option BIT7Z_DISABLE_USE_STD_FILESYSTEM, which makes bit7z always use ghc::filesystem instead of std::filesystem.
  • This option allows you to work around any possible bug in compilers' implementation of std::filesystem (e.g., #181).
  • By default, this option is disabled, and bit7z will always try to use std::filesystem when available (as in previous versions).
• Fixed the std::copy_n warning in old versions of MSVC.
• Defined /Zc:__cplusplus only when using MSVC 15.7 and later.
• Updated examples in the README.

Full Changelog: v4.0.4...v4.0.5

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Bit7z v4.0.4

Changes from v4.0.3:

• Fixed manually linking bit7z when enabling BIT7Z_AUTO_FORMAT (close issue #173).
• Improved error messages when opening file streams.
• Cleaned up unused code and fixed comments.
• Moved string utility functions to a separate source file.
• Improved tests.
• Fixed some static analysis warnings.
• Fixed some implicit signed/unsigned conversions.
• Added more compiler warning flags on GCC/Clang.
• Updated CPM.cmake to 0.38.6.
• Added a GitHub action for running tests using most bit7z build options combinations.

Full Changelog: v4.0.3...v4.0.4

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Bit7z v4.0.3

Changes from v4.0.2:

• Fixed bit7z::narrow on Windows (close issue #172).
• Updated the project version in CMakeLists.txt.
• Fixed build on GCC 5.
• Improved the unit tests.
• Reduced code duplication in unit tests.
• Fixed some warnings from static analysis tools.
• Fixed the code formatting.

Full Changelog: v4.0.2...v4.0.3

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Bit7z v4.0.2

Changes from v4.0.1:

• Fixed build on Android API level 23 and earlier (issue #157).
• Fixed some warnings from static analysis tools like PVS-Studio and clang-tidy.
• Fixed missing proper conversions between tstring and fs::path throughout the code.
  • This should also fix some issues with correctly handling UTF-8 characters in strings.
• Added more tests for when compiling using BIT7Z_USE_SYSTEM_CODEPAGE.
• Fixed support to using both BIT7Z_USE_NATIVE_STRING and BIT7Z_AUTO_PREFIX_LONG_PATHS.
• Always use FormatMessageA for error messages on Windows.
• Fixed and improved bit7z::to_tstring.

Full Changelog: v4.0.1...v4.0.2

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Bit7z v4.0.1

Changes from v4.0.0:

• Fix compression of filesystem items with names having non-ASCII characters
• Improve the README

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.0.1

This is a maintenance release. For a full changelog of bit7z v4.0.x, please check https://github.com/rikyoz/bit7z/releases/tag/v4.0.0.

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