* doc/tar.texi: Remove front- and back-cover texts.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-11-07
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2011-08-13
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
+\f
+version ?.? - ?, 201?-??-??
+
+* New features
+
+** --owner and --group names and numbers
+
+The --owner and --group options now accept operands of the form
+NAME:NUM, so that you can specify both symbolic name and numeric ID
+for owner and group.  In these options, NAME no longer needs to be
+present in the current host's user and group databases.
+
+version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
+
+* Bugfixes
+
+** Fix the --verify option, which broke in version 1.24.
+
+** Fix storing long sparse file names in PAX archives.
+
+** Fix correctness of --atime-preserve=replace
+
+tar --atime-preserve=replace no longer tries to restore atime of
+zero-sized files.
+
+** Work around POSIX incompatibilities on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Tru64
+
+** Fix bug with --one-file-system --listed-incremental
+
+When invoked with these two options, tar 1.25 would add only the
+top-level directory to the archive, but not its contents.
+
 \f
 version 1.25 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-11-07
 
@@ -27,7 +59,7 @@ are met, tar retries extraction using an alternative decompressor:
  2. The compression program was not explicitly requested in the command
  line by the use of such options as -z, -j, etc.
 
-For example, if `compress' is not available, tar will try `gzip'. 
+For example, if `compress' is not available, tar will try `gzip'.
 
 \f
 version 1.24 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-10-24