Libarchive 3.4.0 is a feature and security release.

Feature higlights:

• Support for file and directory symlinks on Windows
• Read support for RAR 5.0 archives
• Read support for ZIPX archives with xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 compression
• Support for non-recursive list and extract
• New tar option: --exclude-vcs
• Improved file attribute support on Linux and file flags support on FreeBSD
• 64-bit ar format support

Important bugfixes:

• fix reading Android APK archives (#1055 )
• fix problems related to unreadable directories (#1167)
• patches from OpenBSD to libarchive_fe/passphrase.c
• support extracting ACLs with in-entry comments (#1096)
• support extracting extattrs as non-root on non-user-writable files (#1023)
• a two-digit number of OSS-Fuzz issues was resolved in this release
• various resource leak, use-after-free and crash fixes

Thanks to all contributors and bug reporters for making libarchive such a great piece of software. Special thanks to @antekone for implementing RAR 5.0 reader and ZIPX decompression support.