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 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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-version 1.14.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, <DATE>
+version 1.14.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-09-02
 
-* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
-  the GNU convention.
+* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
+prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
+from being purged.
+
+With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
+incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
+would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
+back up. This change fixes the bug.
 
+* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
+the GNU convention.
+
+* Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports
+seeks.
+
+* Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
+or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
+
+* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
+the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
+
+* 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
+
+* New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory
+where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying
+--libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it
+also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if
+--enable-backup-scripts was given).
+
+* Bugfixes:
+** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
+** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
+** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
+Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
+** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
+previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
+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
+versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
+  
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 version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11