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version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version)
+* Incompatible changes
+
+** Globbing
+
+Previous versions of GNU tar assumed shell-style globbing when
+extracting from or listing an archive. For example:
+
+ tar xf foo.tar '*.c'
+
+would extract all files whose names end in '.c'. This behavior
+was not documented and was incompatible with traditional tar
+implementations. Therefore, starting from this version, GNU tar
+no longer uses globbing by default. For example, the above invocation
+is now interpreted as a request to extract from the archive the file
+named '*.c'.
+
+To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option.
+So, if you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90,
+set 'TAR_OPTIONS=--wildcards'.
+
+The exact way tar interprets member names is controlled by the
+following command line options:
+
+ --wildcards use wildcards
+ --anchored patterns match file name start
+ --ignore-case ignore case
+ --wildcards-match-slash wildcards match `/'
+
+Each of these options has a '--no-' counterpart that disables its
+effect (e.g. --no-wildcards).
+
+These options affect both the interpretation of member names from
+command line and that of the exclusion patterns (given with --exclude
+and --exclude-from options). The defaults are:
+
+ 1. For member names: --no-wildcards --anchored
+ 2. For exclusion patterns: --wildcards --no-anchored --wildcards-match-slash
+
+The options can appear multiple times in the command line, thereby
+changing the way command line arguments are interpreted. For example,
+to use case-insensitive matching in exclude patterns and to revert to
+case-sensitive matching for the rest of command line, one could write:
+
+ tar xf foo.tar --ignore-case --exclude-from=FILE --no-ignore-case file.name
+
+** Short option -l is now an alias of --check-links option, which complies
+with UNIX98. This ends the transition period started with version 1.14.
+
* New features
** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names