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 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end for copying conditions.
 
-* 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 en_GB (British English), 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-  withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+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+  The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.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
@@ -26,6 +37,15 @@ 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.