[Squashfs-devel] [ANNOUNCE] squashfs-tools-ng 0.4

[David O. <go...@in...>]

Hi,

this announcement marks the release of a new, much improved version of the
squashfs tooling initially proposed in early June.


Release tarball: https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/squashfs-tools-ng-0.4.tar.xz

git tree: https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng


Since the initial announcement (version 0.1), a lot of work has gone into cleanup and
more extensive testing. A number of issues have also been discovered through static
code analysis (coverity scan and similar tools) and have been fixed, leaping closer
to a stable code base.

Feature wise, two additional tools have been added:
 - sqfs2tar
 - tar2sqfs

Doing exactly what the name says, sqfs2tar turns a squashfs image into a tar ball,
written to stdout and tar2sqfs reads a tar ball from stdin (GNU tar, v7, pre-POSIX
ustar, POSIX tar/PAX; supporting Xattrs and sparse files) and generates a squashfs
image.

Regards,

David