[ANNOUNCEMENT] rar-2.0.0RC1 (beta) Released.

The new PECL package rar-2.0.0RC1 (beta) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Changes in respect to release 1.0.0: PHP SUPPORT: - Support for PHP 4.3 dropped. PHP 5.2.x or 5.3.x is required. API BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES: - Handles unicode filenames (uses UTF-8 external encoding). The file names inside the RAR archives are always returned in UTF-8. This will probably break your scripts. - Calling rar_close/RarArchive::close() invalidates RarEntry objects (actually, only extraction is forbidden, but don't rely on it). API backwards compatible changes: - Supports streaming from RAR archives. See RarEntry::getStream() method. - Added a bunch of constants to RarEntry. - Added RarEntry::__toString() method. - Added RarEntry::isDirectory() method. - Added RarEntry::isEncrypted() method. - Added OOP interface for rar_* functions with the RarArchive class. - Added rar_comment_get/RarArchive::getComment(). - Added RarArchive::isSolid()/rar_solid_is(). - Added RarArchive::__toString() method. - Added RarException class. - Exception throwing for expectable errors can be turned on by calling RarException::setUsingExceptions(). To check whether exception throwing is turned on, RarException::isUsingExceptions() can be used. Bug fixes: - Fixed by PECL bug #8821 (relative paths not working). - Fixed PECL bug #9470 (wrong CRC on multi-volume archives). - Fixed PECL bug #9649 (rar_close() not closing file descriptors if there were undestroyed RarEntry objects) - Fixed volumes opened with middle volumes showing files continued from previous volume with incorrect packed and unpacked sizes. - Fixed bug in UnRAR library that could cause a read out of buffer bounds on some corrupted RAR files. - Fixed RarEntry::getPackedSize() and RarEntry::getUnpackedSize() giving incorrect results for files > 2 GiB. Still, on platforms with 32-bit integers, MAX_INT will be returned for such files, othwerwise the correct value is given. Other changes: - Updated bundled UnRAR library to version 3.9.7 (RAR 3.9.1). - Changed bundled UnRAR library to allow partial file extraction. - All RarEntry properties are now private. This doesn't break the API because those properties were never part of the contract. - rar_open gives more detailed error messages on failure. - Extension now uses extended UnRAR library structures. - Added arginfo. - Added a bunch of tests. - A lot of refactoring and compilation as C, not C++. Package Info ------------- PHP extension for reading RAR archives using bundled unRAR library. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pecl.php.net/package/rar Changelog: http://pecl.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=rar Download: http://pecl.php.net/get/rar-2.0.0RC1.tgz Authors ------------- Antony Dovgal (developer) Gustavo Lopes (lead)