-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-03-27
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-04-14
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-version 1.19.90 (CVS)
+version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14
* New option --auto-compress (-a)
The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR.
+* Incremental archives
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+Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives.
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* Bugfixes.
** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing
archives.