X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=394925c4a040fa662e25b97007059fe6abee8f0a;hb=8c528937a93b428910f062bcf984c28922f0cde7;hp=e4b6987e2719e4cda808a9d7d4f7be642645d375;hpb=7b57922073a7c21069c5f355549b4d8811881585;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e4b6987..394925c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,31 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-10-10 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-10-29 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + +version 1.19.1 (CVS) + +* New option --auto-compress (-a) + +With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix +of the archive file name. + +* New option --lzma + +Selects LZMA compression algorithm + +* New option --hard-dereference + +During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files +they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1'). + +* New option --checkpoint-action + +This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a +checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default), +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. + version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10