7 The old functions ({get,set,list,remove}xattr) are deprecated and replaced with
8 a new API that is namespace-aware and hopefully will allow other OSes (e.g.
9 FreeBSD) to be supported more naturally.
11 Both the old and the new API are supported in the 0.4 versions, however users
12 are encouraged to migrate to the new API.
17 A new bulk get function called get_all() has been added that should be somewhat
18 faster in case of querying files which have many attributes.
23 Since LGPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 (which unfortunately I didn't realize
24 before), the license was changed to LGPLv2.1 or later.
29 Unittest coverage was improved.
34 * changed licence from GPL to LGPL (3 or later)
35 * changed listxattr return type from tuple to a list
36 * developer-related: added unittests
41 * fixed listing symlink xattrs
46 * fixed a bug when reading symlink EAs (you weren't able to
48 * fixed a possible memory leak when the actual read of the EA
49 failed but the call to get the length of the EA didn't