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@@ -8,17 +8,24 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 version 1.13.26
 
+* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format.
+* 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.
+Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
+* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
+path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
+
 * Bug fixes.
 
 * New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir.  The --overwrite-dir
   option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
   the previous default behavior.
 
-* New message translations en_GB (British English), fi (Finnish), gl
-  (Galician), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb
-  (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified),
-  zh_TW (Chinese traditional).  The code 'no' for Norwegian has been
-  withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
+  hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
+  (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
+  The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
 
 * The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
 does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible