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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
 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
+version 1.13.93
 
-* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format.
+* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
 * 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.
@@ -34,20 +34,26 @@ version 1.13.26
   with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
   the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
 
-* New option --first-copy can be used in conjunction with one of 
+* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of 
   the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
   files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
-  option instructs tar to terminate when all of the filenames from
-  the list were processed.
-
+  option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named
+  file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename'
+  extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
+  and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
+
+* New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX
+  keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax'
+  -o option.
+  
 * Removed obsolete command line options:
-** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names
+** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names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
+** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor
+** --modification-time superseded by --touch
+** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records
+** --record-number superseded by --block-number
+** --version-control superseded by --backup
 
 * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
   hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
@@ -168,7 +174,7 @@ version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
   To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
 
 * Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
-  correctly.  It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes.
+  correctly.  It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
 
 * The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
   that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about