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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-08-24
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-29
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.18.1 (CVS)
+version 1.18.90 (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 handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives.
+
+Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename
+records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records
+contain file names processed in accordance with the command line
+settings.
+  
 * Fix --version output.
 
-* Recognition of broken archive.
+* Recognition of broken archives.
 
 When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x,
 -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with