Changelog of @hackage/tar 0.5.0.0

0.5.0.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

Work with old version of bytestring (using bytestring-builder package).
Builds with GHC 6.10 -- 8.0.
Change type of Index.serialise to be simply strict bytestring.
Preserve file timestamps on unpack (with directory-1.2.3+)

0.4.5.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

Revert accidental minor API change in 0.4.x series (the type of the owner and group name strings). The 0.4.3.0 and 0.4.4.0 releases contained the accidental API change.
Add a handy foldlEntries function

0.4.4.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

Build and warning fixes for GHC 7.10 and 8.0
New Index module function toList to get all index entries

0.4.3.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2016

New Index function unfinalise to extend existing index
9x faster reading
9x faster index construction
24x faster index extension
More compact entry types, using ByteStrings
More Eq and Show instances
Greater QC test coverage
Fix minor bug in reading non-standard v7 format entries

0.4.2.2 Edsko de Vries edsko@well-typed.com October 2015

Fix bug in Index

0.4.2.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org July 2015

Fix tests for the Index modules (the code was right)

0.4.2.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org July 2015

New Index module for random access to tar file contents
New lower level tar file I/O actions
New tarball file 'append' action

0.4.1.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org January 2015

Build with GHC 7.10
Switch from old-time to time package
Added more instance for Entries type

0.4.0.1 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org October 2012

fixes to work with directory 1.2
More Eq/Ord instances

0.4.0.0 Duncan Coutts duncan@community.haskell.org February 2012

More explicit error types and error handling
Support star base-256 number format
Improved API documentation