* NEWS: Update.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-29
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-08

 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.18.90 (CVS)
+version 1.19.90 (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, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, 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.  See
+chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description.
+
+* The --transform option.
+
+Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line.
+The specified transformations will be applied in turn.
+
+The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace
+expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed').
+
+Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets
+during both creation and extraction.  Tar 1.19 used them only
+during extraction.
+
+For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member
+Names". 
+
+* Info (end-of-volume) scripts
+
+The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
+checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR.
+
+* Bugfixes.
+** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing
+archives.
+
+\f
+version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10

 
 * New option --exclude-vcs
 
 
 * New option --exclude-vcs
 

-Excludes directories and files, internal to some widely used version
+Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version

 control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc.
 
 * --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options
 control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc.
 
 * --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options


@@ -37,6 +87,8 @@ code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
 
 * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.
 
 
 * 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.
+

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 version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29
 
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 version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29
 


@@ -930,7 +982,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
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 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
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 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,

-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
 This file is part of GNU tar.
 
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.