Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - NEWS

   1 Current Version: 1.11.2
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   3
   4 User-visible changes since 1.11.1:
   5
   6 o Changes in backup scripts
   7   - cleaned up considerably; notices error conditions better over rsh
   8   - DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in backup-specs
   9   - new file dump-remind is an example of a DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT
  10 o Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
  11 o Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
  12 o New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
  13   of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
  14   compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
  15   now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
  16 o Several error messages are cleaned up.
  17 o Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
  18 o Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
  19   for --info-script.
  20 o Behave better with broken rmt servers.
  21 o Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
  22 o Several Makefile cleanups.
  23
  24 \f
  25 ==============
  26 Version 1.11.1
  27 User-visible changes since 1.11:
  28
  29 o Many bug fixes
  30
  31 \f
  32 ============
  33 Version 1.11
  34 User-visible changes since 1.10:
  35
  36 o Many bug fixes
  37
  38 o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
  39
  40 o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
  41   will eventually be removed.
  42
  43 o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
  44   and causes -C to be ignored.
  45
  46 o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
  47   they are added to the archive.
  48
  49 o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
  50   the exit status.
  51
  52 o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
  53   being read or written.
  54
  55 o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
  56   omitted from the archive.
  57
  58 o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
  59   end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
  60
  61 o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
  62   not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
  63
  64 o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
  65   the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
  66   around to the beginning.
  67
  68 o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
  69   `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
  70   then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
  71
  72 o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
  73   original values after dumping the file.
  74
  75 o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
  76   to dump.
  77
  78 o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
  79   modification and access times.
  80
  81 o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
  82   precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
  83   longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
  84   long names to work.
  85
  86 \f
  87 =============
  88 Version 1.10:
  89 User-visible changes since 1.09:
  90
  91 Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.
  92 Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
  93
  94 -g is now +incremental
  95 -G is now +listed-incremental
  96
  97 Sparse files now work correctly.
  98
  99 +volume is now called +label.
 100
 101 +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
 102 +exclude used to do.
 103
 104 Exit status is now correct.
 105
 106 +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 107
 108 When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 109
 110 New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
 111 you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
 112 instead of waiting for a write error.
 113
 114 New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
 115 people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
 116 need local modification.  These are what we use to do all our backups
 117 at the FSF.