-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-08-24
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-26
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version 1.18.1 (CVS)
+* New option --exclude-vcs
+
+Excludes directories and files, internal to some widely used version
+control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc.
+
+* --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options
+
+The following options now work with incremental archives as well:
+
+ --exclude-caches
+ --exclude-caches-all
+ --exclude-tag
+ --exclude-tag-all
+ --exclude-tag-under
+
* Fix --version output.
* Recognition of broken archive.