The minitar library is a pure-Ruby library that provides the ability to deal
with POSIX tar(1) archive files.

This is release 0.6, providing a number of bug fixes including a directory
traversal vulnerability, CVE-2016-10173. This release starts the migration and
modernization of the code:

* the licence has been changed to match the modern Ruby licensing scheme (Ruby
 and Simplified BSD instead of Ruby and GNU GPL);
* the minitar command-line program has been separated into the minitar-cli
 gem;
* the archive-tar-minitar gem now points to the minitar and minitar-cli gems and
 discourages its installation.

Some of these changes may break existing programs that depend on the internal
structure of the minitar library, but every effort has been made to ensure
compatibility; inasmuch as is possible, this compatibility will be maintained
through the release of minitar 1.0 (which will have strong breaking
changes).

minitar (previously called Archive::Tar::Minitar) is based heavily on code
originally written by Mauricio Julio Fernandez Pradier for the rpa-base project.

• Pavel Skrylev

• gem-minitar
• gem-minitar-devel
• gem-minitar-doc