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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 1.16.2
+
+* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.  Previous versions padded
+  sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
+  
+* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.  Version 1.16.1 produced
+  a full dump when both options were given.
+
+* Fix --occurence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
+  even though all requested members has already been extracted.
+
+* The options --transform and --strip-components affect hard and soft link
+  targets.
+
+* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
+  it to the file descriptor $TAR_FD.
+     
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+version 1.16.1
+
+* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. 
+  files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not 
+  be archived.
+
+* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
+  CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived.  Previous versions excluded
+  directory contents only, while the directories themselves were
+  still added to the archive. 
+
+* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
+  This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.
+  Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see
+  <http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-11/0344.html>.
+  We don't expect that any tar archives in practical use have type 'N'
+  records, but if you have one and you trust its contents, you can
+  decode it with GNU tar 1.16 or earlier.
+
+* Race conditions have been fixed that in some cases briefly allowed
+  files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
+  running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
+
+\f  
 version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
 
 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were
@@ -841,7 +883,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
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 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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