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-version 1.14.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-09-02
+version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
+
+This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused
+tar to refuse to extract files from standard input.
+
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+version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
+
+* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer
+necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can
+now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
+* New option --exclude-caches instructs tar to exclude cache directories
+automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those
+containing a standardized tag file, as specified at:
+
+ http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
+
* New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to
the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
introduced in version 1.14
were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
extracted copy in such cases.
-** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option.
-** Fixed verification of the created archives.
-** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous
+** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option (which
+didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect).
+** Fixed verification of created archives.
+** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous
versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
+** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous
+versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes.
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version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11