Changelog

All notable changes to Makeself are documented here.

2.7.1

• Base64 encoding now runs after compression, consistent with other post-compression encryption/encoding options.
• Documentation updated to reflect that compression can be combined with encryption/encoding.

2.7.0

• Compression now precedes encryption so both can be enabled together.
• Signing passphrases are masked in stored metadata.
• Added coverage for combined encryption + compression flows.

2.6.0

• Added –preextract hook with –show-preextract, enabling scripted checks before extraction and full shUnit2 coverage.
• Introduced –comp-extra so archives can pass extra flags (e.g., –no-name) to any compressor, plus positive/negative tests.
• Documented SETUP_NOCHECK=1 to skip integrity verification; new regression test ensures behavior.

2.5.0

• Expanded support to NetBSD, OpenBSD, Busybox and other minimal distributions such as Alpine Linux.
• Added bzip3 compression support and expanded GPG arguments.

2.4.5

• Added –tar-format option to set the tar archive format (default is ustar).

2.4.4

• Fixed various compatibility issues (no longer use POSIX tar archives).
• GitHub Actions now check on Solaris and FreeBSD.

2.4.3

• Make explicit POSIX tar archives for increased compatibility.

2.4.2

• New –cleanup and –cleanup-args arguments for cleanup scripts.
• Added threading support for supported compressors.
• Added zstd compression support.

2.4.0

• Added optional support for SHA256 archive integrity checksums.

2.3.1

• Various compatibility updates.
• Added unit tests for Travis CI.
• New –tar-extra, –untar-extra, –gpg-extra, –gpg-asymmetric-encrypt-sign options.

2.3.0

• Support for archive encryption via GPG or OpenSSL.
• Added LZO and LZ4 compression support.
• Options to set the packaging date and stop the umask from being overridden.
• Optionally ignore disk space checks when extracting.
• New option to check for root permissions before extracting.

2.2.0

• Major new release with many bugfixes and user contributions.

2.1.6

• Replaced per-file dots with realtime progress percentage and a spinner.
• Added –noprogress to hide progress during decompression.
• Added –target to allow extracting directly to a target directory.

2.1.5

• MD5 detection consistent with the header code.
• Check for the presence of the archive directory.
• Added –encrypt for symmetric encryption through gpg (Eric Windisch).
• Added support for the digest command on Solaris 10 for MD5 checksums.
• Check for available disk space before extracting to the target directory (Andreas Schweitzer).
• Allow extraction to run asynchronously (patch by Peter Hatch).
• Use file descriptors internally to avoid error messages (patch by Kay Tiong Khoo).

2.1.4

• Fixed –info output.
• Generate random directory name when extracting files to . to avoid problems.
• Better handling of errors with wrong permissions for the directory containing the files.
• Avoid some race conditions; unset CDPATH to avoid problems if it is set.
• Better handling of dot files in the archive directory.

2.1.3

• Bug fixes with the command line when spawning terminals.
• Added –tar and –noexec for archives.
• Added –nomd5 and –nocrc to avoid creating checksums in archives.
• Embedded script now run through “eval”.
• The –info output now includes the command used to create the archive.
• Added man page (contributed by Bartosz Fenski).

2.1.2

• Bug fixes; use head -n to avoid problems with POSIX conformance.

2.1.1

• Fixes related to the Unix compress command.
• Added better handling for compression availability.

2.1.0

• Multiple embedded tarballs, each with their own checksums.
• Archives can be updated with –append, reusing original settings.
• Improved checksum handling.
• Added –nochown option for archives.

2.0.1

• First public release of the new 2.0 branch.
• Introduced –copy to support installers that need to unmount media.

2.0

• Complete internal rewrite of Makeself.
• Vastly improved command-line parsing and maintenance by separating the stub from makeself.sh.
• Ported and tested across many Unix platforms.

1.5.x

• Numerous bugfixes and checksum improvements.
• Added –encrypt for symmetric encryption through gpg (Eric Windisch).
• Support for digest command on Solaris 10 for MD5 checksums.
• Disk-space checks before extraction.
• Added asynchronous extraction and improved error handling.
• Made part of the Loki Setup installer.

1.4

• Improved UNIX compatibility and automatic integrity checking.
• Support for LSM files to describe packages at runtime.

1.3

• Added support for no compression (--nocomp).
• Script is no longer mandatory.
• Automatic launch in an xterm.
• Optional verbose output.
• Added -target archive option to indicate where to extract files.

1.2

• Cosmetic updates.
• Support for bzip2 compression and non-temporary archives.

1.1

• Added ability to pass parameters through to the embedded script.

1.0

• Initial public release.