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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-08
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-06-26
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 
-version 1.19.90 (CVS)
+version 1.20.90 (CVS)
+
+* New short option -J
+
+A shortcut for --lzma.
+
+* New option --lzop
+
+* New option --no-auto-compress
+
+Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option.
+
+* Compressed format recognition
+
+If tar is unable to determine archive compression format, it falls
+back to using archive suffix to determine it.
+
+* VCS support.
+
+Using --exclude-vcs handles also files used internally by Bazaar,
+Mercurial and Darcs.
+
+
+
+version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14
 
 * New option --auto-compress (-a)
 
@@ -27,6 +51,18 @@ of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be
 executed in order of their appearance in the command line.  See
 chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description.
 
+* New options --no-check-device, --check-device.
+
+The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during
+preparatory stage of an incremental dump.  This allows to avoid
+creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an
+LVM snapshot).
+
+The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers.  This is
+the default.  This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous
+`--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS
+environment variable.
+
 * The --transform option.
 
 Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line.
@@ -47,6 +83,10 @@ Names".
 The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
 checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR.
 
+* Incremental archives
+
+Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives.
+
 * Bugfixes.
 ** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing
 archives.