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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-27
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-10-10
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.18.90 (CVS)
+version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10
 
 * New option --exclude-vcs
 
-Excludes directories and files, internal to some widely used version
+Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version
 control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc.
 
 * --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options
@@ -19,9 +19,16 @@ The following options now work with incremental archives as well:
   --exclude-tag-all
   --exclude-tag-under
 
+* Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives.
+
+Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename
+records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records
+contain file names processed in accordance with the command line
+settings.
+  
 * Fix --version output.
 
-* Recognition of broken archive.
+* Recognition of broken archives.
 
 When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x,
 -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with
@@ -30,6 +37,8 @@ code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
 
 * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.
 
+* Fix file padding in case of truncation of the input file to zero size.
+
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 version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29