-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-09-23
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-27
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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-version 1.26.90 (Git)
+version 1.27.90 (Git)
+
+* New checkpoint action: totals
+
+The --checkpoint-action=totals option instructs tar to output the
+total number of bytes transferred at each checkpoint.
+
+* Extended checkpoint format specification.
+
+New conversion specifiers are implemented. Some of them take
+optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent
+sign and the specifier letter.
+
+ %d - output number of seconds since tar started
+ %{r,w,d}T - output I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
+ to be used before number of bytes read, written and
+ deleted, correspondingly.
+ %{FMT}t - output current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format
+ If {FMT} is omitted, use %c
+ %{N}* - pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the
+ current screen width, if {N} is not given.
+ %c - a shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+
+* Manpages
+
+This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
+Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the
+home-made pages they provided so far.
+
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+version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
+
+* Bug fixes
+
+* Fix unquoting of file names obtained via the -T option.
+
+* Fix GNU long link header timestamp (backward compatibility).
+
+* Fix extracting sparse members from star archives.
+
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+version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05
* Bug fixes
* New command line option --keep-directory-symlink
-By default, if when trying to extract a directory from the archive,
+By default, if trying to extract a directory from the archive,
tar discovers that the corresponding file name already exists and is a
symbolic link, it first unlinks the entry, and then extracts the directory.