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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-06-08
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-10-29

 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>

+
+\f
+version 1.19.1 (CVS)
+
+* New option --auto-compress (-a)
+
+With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix
+of the archive file name.
+
+* New option --lzma
+
+Selects LZMA compression algorithm
+
+* New option --hard-dereference
+
+During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files
+they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1').
+
+* New option --checkpoint-action
+
+This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a
+checkpoint.  Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default),
+echo=string, and sleep=value.  Any number of `--checkpoint-action'
+options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of
+their appearance in the command line.  
+
+\f
+version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10
+
+* New option --exclude-vcs
+
+Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version
+control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc.
+
+* --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options
+
+The following options now work with incremental archives as well:
+
+  --exclude-caches       
+  --exclude-caches-all   
+  --exclude-tag
+  --exclude-tag-all
+  --exclude-tag-under
+
+* Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives.
+
+Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename
+records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records
+contain file names processed in accordance with the command line
+settings.
+  
+* Fix --version output.
+
+* Recognition of broken archives.
+
+When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x,
+-t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with
+code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
+'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2.
+
+* Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.
+
+* Fix file padding in case of truncation of the input file to zero size.
+
+\f
+version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29
+
+* Licensed under the GPLv3
+
+* Fixed several bugs in the testsuite
+

 \f
 version 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08
 
 * Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.  Previous versions padded
   sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
 \f
 version 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08
 
 * Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.  Previous versions padded
   sparse members with spurious zero blocks.

-  
+

 * Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.  Version 1.16.1 produced
   a full dump when both options were given.
 
 * Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.  Version 1.16.1 produced
   a full dump when both options were given.
 

-* Fix --occurence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
+* Fix --occurrence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive

   even though all requested members has already been extracted.
 
 * Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
 
 In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform
 option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components
   even though all requested members has already been extracted.
 
 * Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
 
 In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform
 option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components

-option affects hard link targets as well. 
+option affects hard link targets as well.

 
 * End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
   it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'.
 
 * End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
   it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'.

-     
+

 \f
 version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09
 
 \f
 version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09
 

-* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. 
-  files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not 
+* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
+  files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not

   be archived.
 
 * The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
   CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived.  Previous versions excluded
   directory contents only, while the directories themselves were
   be archived.
 
 * The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
   CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived.  Previous versions excluded
   directory contents only, while the directories themselves were

-  still added to the archive. 
+  still added to the archive.

 
 * Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
   This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.
 
 * Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
   This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.


@@ -45,7 +116,7 @@ version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09
   files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
   running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
 
   files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
   running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
 

-\f  
+\f

 version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
 
 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were
 version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
 
 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were


@@ -892,7 +963,7 @@ This file is part of GNU tar.
 
 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 
 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)

 any later version.
 
 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 any later version.
 
 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,