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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-12-05
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-07
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 \f
@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ echo=string, and sleep=value.  Any number of `--checkpoint-action'
 options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of
 their appearance in the command line.  
 
+* The --transform option.
+
+Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line.
+The specified transformations will be applied in turn.
+
+The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace
+expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed').
+
+Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets
+during both creation and extraction.  Tar 1.19 used them only
+during extraction.
+
 * Info (end-of-volume) scripts
 
 The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
@@ -966,7 +978,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
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 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.