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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2011-03-12
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2011-11-26
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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+version 1.26.90 (Git)
+
+* New features
+
+** --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
+for owner and group.  In these options, NAME no longer needs to be
+present in the current host's user and group databases.
+
+* The --keep-old-files and --skip-old-files options.
+
+This release restores the traditional functionality of the
+--keep-old-files.  This option causes tar to avoid replacing
+existing files while extracting and to treat such files as errors.
+Tar will emit a prominent error message upon encountering such files
+and will exit with code 2 when finished extracting the archive.
+
+A new option --skip-old-files is introduced, which acts exactly as
+--keep-old-files, except that it does not treat existing files as
+errors.  Instead it just silently skips them.  An additional level of
+verbosity can be obtained by using the option --warning=existing-file
+together with this option.
+
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 version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12