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-version 1.15.92 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS)
+version 1.16.2
+
+* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode. Previous versions padded
+ sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
+
+* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental. Version 1.16.1 produced
+ a full dump when both options were given.
+
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+version 1.16.1
+
+* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
+ files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not
+ be archived.
+
+* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
+ CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded
+ directory contents only, while the directories themselves were
+ still added to the archive.
+
+* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
+ This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.
+ Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see
+ <http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-11/0344.html>.
+ We don't expect that any tar archives in practical use have type 'N'
+ records, but if you have one and you trust its contents, you can
+ decode it with GNU tar 1.16 or earlier.
+
+* Race conditions have been fixed that in some cases briefly allowed
+ files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
+ running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
+
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+version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
+
+* After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were
+changed while being read. Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal
+error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived.
* New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive
-members during creation.
+members during creation.
* Bug fixes
** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options.
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.
+To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option.
If you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90,
add --wildcards to the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS.
The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the
following command line options:
- --wildcards use wildcards
+ --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
+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:
** 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 option --transform allows to transform file names before storing them
versions it worked only with --extract.
** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file
-or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in
-1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists
+or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in
+1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists
member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes
removed and file name transformations applied. The option is useful,
for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
-** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names
+** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names
as well as that about directories.
** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number
of records between the two successive checkpoints. Optional dot
starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual
-checkpoints.
+checkpoints.
** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions
understood it only with --create). If an argument to this option is
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