-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-01-18
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-01-26
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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version 1.26.90 (Git)
+* Bug fixes
+
+** Sparse files with large data
+
+When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts
+the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB.
+
* Quoting
In the default C locale, diagnostics and output of 'tar' have been
(with an accent grave character and an apostrophe). This tracks
recent changes to the GNU coding standards.
-* New features
-
-** --owner and --group names and numbers
+* --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
verbosity can be obtained by using the option --warning=existing-file
together with this option.
+* Support for POSIX ACLs, extended attributes and SELinux context.
+
+Starting with this version tar is able to store, extract and list
+extended file attributes, POSIX.1e ACLs and SELinux context. This is
+controlled by the command line options --xattrs, --acls and --selinux,
+correspondingly. Each of these options has a `--no-' counterpart
+(e.g. --no-xattrs), which disables the corresponding feature.
+Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow
+you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the
+extended attributes.
+
+* New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging.
+
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version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
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