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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-05-25
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-08-08
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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@@ -10,6 +10,33 @@ When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is
 reported only if the archive is read from a device (as opposed
 to regular files and pipes).
 
+* New command line option `--warning'
+
+The `--warning' command line option allows to suppress or enable
+particular warning messages during `tar' run.  It takes a single
+argument (a `keyword'), identifying the class of warning messages
+to affect.  If the argument is prefixed with `no-', such warning
+messages are suppressed.  For example,
+
+  tar --warning=no-alone-zero-block -x -f archive
+
+suppresses the output of `A lone zero block' diagnostics, which is
+normally issued if `archive' ends with a single block of zeros.
+
+* New command line option `--level'
+
+The `--level=N' option sets the incremental dump level N.  It
+is valid when used in conjunction with the -c and --listed-incremental
+options.  So far the only meaningful value for N is 0.  The
+`--level=0' option forces creating the level 0 dump, by truncating
+the snapshot file if it exists.
+
+* Bugfixes
+** Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform.
+** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files.
+** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199).
+** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories.
+
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 version 1.22 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009-03-05