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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-26

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

+
+\f
+version 1.18.1 (CVS)
+
+* New option --exclude-vcs
+
+Excludes directories and files, internal to some 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 --version output.
+
+* Recognition of broken archive.
+
+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 '/.'.
+
+\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.
+
+* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.  Version 1.16.1 produced
+  a full dump when both options were given.
+
+* 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
+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'.
+
+\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
+  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.
+
+* 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'.
+  Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see
+  <http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-11/0344.html>.
+  We don't expect that any tar archives in practical use have type 'N'
+  records, but if you have one and you trust its contents, you can
+  decode it with GNU tar 1.16 or earlier.
+
+* Race conditions have been fixed that in some cases briefly allowed
+  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
+version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
+
+* After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were
+changed while being read.  Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal
+error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived.
+
+* New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive
+members during creation.
+
+* Bug fixes
+** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options.
+** tar --index-file=FILE --file=- sent the archive to FILE, and
+the listing to stderr.
+

 \f
 \f

-version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version)
+version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-06-16
+
+* Incompatible changes
+
+** Globbing
+
+Previous versions of GNU tar assumed shell-style globbing when
+extracting from or listing an archive.  For example:
+
+  tar xf foo.tar '*.c'
+
+would extract all files whose names end in '.c'.  This behavior
+was not documented and was incompatible with traditional tar
+implementations.  Therefore, starting from this version, GNU tar
+no longer uses globbing by default.  For example, the above invocation
+is now interpreted as a request to extract from the archive the file
+named '*.c'.
+
+To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option.
+If you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90,
+add --wildcards to the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS.
+
+The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the
+following command line options:
+
+     --wildcards              use wildcards
+     --anchored               patterns match file name start
+     --ignore-case            ignore case
+     --wildcards-match-slash  wildcards match `/'
+
+Each of these options has a '--no-' counterpart that disables its
+effect (e.g. --no-wildcards).
+
+These options affect both the interpretation of member names from
+command line and that of the exclusion patterns (given with --exclude
+and --exclude-from options). The defaults are:
+
+ 1. For member names: --no-wildcards --anchored
+ 2. For exclusion patterns: --wildcards --no-anchored --wildcards-match-slash
+
+The options can appear multiple times in the command line, thereby
+changing the way command line arguments are interpreted.  For example,
+to use case-insensitive matching in exclude patterns and to revert to
+case-sensitive matching for the rest of command line, one could write:
+
+  tar xf foo.tar --ignore-case --exclude-from=FILE --no-ignore-case file.name
+
+** Short option -l is now an alias of --check-links option, which complies
+with UNIX98.  This ends the transition period started with version 1.14.

 
 * New features
 
 
 * New features
 

-** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names 
+** New option --transform allows to transform file names before storing them
+in the archive or member names before extracting.  The option takes a
+sed replace expression as its argument.  For example,
+
+  tar cf foo.tar --transform 's,^,prefix/,'
+
+will add 'prefix/' to all file names stored in foo.tar.
+
+** --strip-components option works when deleting and comparing.  In previous
+versions it worked only with --extract.
+
+** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file
+or archive.   It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in
+1.15.90.  In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists
+member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes
+removed and file name transformations applied.  The option is useful,
+for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
+
+** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names

 as well as that about directories.
 
 as well as that about directories.
 

+** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number
+of records between the two successive checkpoints.   Optional dot
+starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual
+checkpoints.
+
+** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions
+understood it only with --create).  If an argument to this option is
+given, it specifies the signal upon delivery of which the statistics
+is to be printed.  Both forms of this option (with and without
+argument) can be given to in a single invocation of tar.
+
+* Bug fixes
+** Detect attempts to update compressed archives.

 
 \f
 version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19
 
 \f
 version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19


@@ -90,7 +266,7 @@ Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member
 was not processed correctly.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.
 was not processed correctly.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.

-** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
+** Compare mode (tar d) hung when trying to compare file contents.

 ** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
 modification times.
 ** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
 ** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
 modification times.
 ** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose


@@ -747,13 +923,13 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
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-2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
 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
 
 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

-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,


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+eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+time-stamp-start: "changes. "
+time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d"
+time-stamp-end: "\n"

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