bsdtar broke in july?

[lostinlinux]

raspberry pi 3b

no problems with the may image (ArchLinuxARM-2019.05-rpi-2-rootfs.tar.gz).

in july (ArchLinuxARM-2019.07-rpi-2-rootfs.tar.gz) bsdtar gives me a thousand lines like this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', './usr/lib/libc-2.29.so: Write failed
./usr/lib/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/libpcap.so: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/libksba.so: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/glib-2.0/: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/libsasl2.so: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/xfsprogs/: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0: Write to restore size failed
./usr/lib/libgettextpo.so.0: Write to restore size failed')

i installed the images multiple times and this appears to be 100% repeatable. i checked the MD5. using all the same hardware for both tests.

command is: bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-2019.07-rpi-2-rootfs.tar.gz -C ./sda2/

may image: bsdtar 3.3.3 - libarchive 3.3.3 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.4 bz2lib/1.0.6 liblz4/1.8.2 libzstd/1.3.5

july image: bsdtar 3.4.0 - libarchive 3.4.0 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.4 bz2lib/1.0.8 liblz4/1.9.1 libzstd/1.4.0

running pacman -Syu on the may image also breaks it.

any ideas?