GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
-Copyright 1994-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end for copying conditions.
+
+Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
+\f
+
+version 1.13.26
+
+* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format.
+* New option --format allows to select the output archive format
+* The default output format can be selected at configuration time
+by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
+Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
+
+* Bug fixes.
+
+* New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir
+ option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
+ the previous default behavior.
+
+* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
+ hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
+ (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
+ The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+
+* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
+does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
+with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
+--old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed
+in future.
+
+* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped
+for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
+The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
+with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
+the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
+
+* Removed obsolete command line options:
+** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names
+** --block-compress is not needed any longer
+** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor
+** --modification-time superseeded by --touch
+** --read-full-blocks supeseeded by --read-full-records
+** --record-number superseeded by --block-number
+** --version-control superseeded by --backup
+
+version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
+
+* Bug fixes.
+
+version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22
+
+* New option --overwrite-dir.
+* Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
+* The message translations for Korean are available again.
+
+version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13
+
+* Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes.
+
+version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29
+
+* Bug fixes.
+
+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.
version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
-* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite existing files when
- extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes them before
- extracting. There is one exception: existing nonempty directories
- are not removed, nor are their ownerships or permissions extracted.
- This fixes some longstanding security problems.
+* 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.
* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
- The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC" is for portability
+ The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
* Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
- http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/
The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
\f
-Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
+Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
Sensitive matters
* Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
\f
-Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
+Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
* Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
* The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
* See ChangeLog for more details.
+
+\f
+
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU tar.
+
+GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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