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 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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-version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version)
+version 1.15.92 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS)
+
+* 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
+version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-06-16
 
 * Incompatible changes
 
@@ -20,10 +35,10 @@ 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.  
-So, if you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90,
-set 'TAR_OPTIONS=--wildcards'.
+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 tar interprets member names is controlled by the
+The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the
 following command line options:
 
      --wildcards              use wildcards 
@@ -57,24 +72,37 @@ with UNIX98.  This ends the transition period started with version 1.14.
 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/'
+  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.
+** --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.  In particular, when creating archive in verbose mode,
-the option lists member names as stored in the 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
+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.
 
+** 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.
+
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 version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19