+
+version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28
+
+* Porting and copyright notice fixes.
+
+version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27
+
+* Some bugs were fixed:
+ - security problems
+ - hard links to symbolic links
+
+* New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion.
+
+* New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards,
+ --wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored).
+ Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how
+ exclude patterns are interpreted.
+
+* The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored
+ --no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash.
+ This is a quiet change to the semantics of --exclude. The previous
+ semantics were a failed attempt at backward compatibility but it
+ became clear that the semantics were puzzling and did not satisfy
+ everybody. Rather than continue to try to revive that dead horse we
+ thought it better to substitute cleaner semantics, with options so
+ that you can change the behavior more to your liking.
+
+* New message translations for Indonesian and Turkish.
+ The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
+ It will be reissued once those are fixed.
+
+version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
+
+* The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
+ Eventually it is planned to be reintroduced, with the same meaning as -T.
+
+* With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken
+ to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date.
+
+version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
+
+* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
+ files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe
+ option like --absolute-names or --overwrite.
+
+* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
+ and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
+
+* The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
+
+* The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options.
+
+* The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
+
+* The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly.
+
+* Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS.
+ The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old.
+
+* New language supported: da.
+
+* Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported.
+ If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead.
+
+* This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later.
+ Please see <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.
+
+* `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
+
+version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
+
+* `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
+* Diagnostic messages have been made more regular and consistent.
+
+version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
+
+* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
+ extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file
+ before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the
+ link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one
+ exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are
+ their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some
+ longstanding security problems.
+
+ The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
+
+ For regular files, tar implements this change by using the O_EXCL
+ option of `open' to ensure that it creates the file; if this fails, it
+ removes the file and tries again. This is similar to the behavior of
+ the --unlink-first option, but it is faster in the common case of
+ extracting a new directory.
+
+* By default, tar now ignores file names containing a component of `..'
+ when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
+ To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
+
+* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
+ correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes.
+
+* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
+ that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
+ locale when restoring a backup. This is needed for proper support
+ of multibyte characters. Old-format files can still be read, and
+ older versions of GNU tar can read new-format files, unless member
+ names have multibyte chars.
+
+* Many diagnostics have been changed slightly, so that file names are
+ now output unambiguously. File names in diagnostics now are either
+ `quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
+ colon, newline, or space, depending on context. Unprintable
+ characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
+ Terminating characters (e.g. close-quote, colon, newline)
+ are also escaped as needed.
+
+* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
+ Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
+
+version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
+
+* If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.
+ Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors.
+
+version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
+
+* New translations ja, pt_BR.
+* New options --help and --version for rmt.
+* Ignore Solaris door files when creating an archive.
+
+version 1.13.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-10-11.
+
+* Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings.
+* `tar --version' output conforms to the latest GNU coding standards.
+* If you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1.
+* `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
+
+version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
+
+* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
+
+* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
+
+* --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value.
+
+* `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header
+ values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8
+ format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time
+ stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar
+ archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of
+ GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old
+ behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values,
+ and which rejects large files.
+
+* On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in
+ the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T -
+ 2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit
+ time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning.
+
+* `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering
+ that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract
+ as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage.
+
+* A read error now causes a nonzero exit status, not just a warning.
+
+* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
+
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