X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=091df94291932cb14f761cea4723a43279d84026;hb=706bd019158e8e1213520b1de521eab83332762d;hp=7624d8022bc6b0232840907a957bec6bd661c441;hpb=0057cd6803a8fa322591a5cc7661d87ab77d9db6;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7624d80..091df94 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-10-07 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-01-24 Please send GNU tar bug reports to @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ messages are suppressed. For example, suppresses the output of `A lone zero block' diagnostics, which is normally issued if `archive' ends with a single block of zeros. +See Tar Manual, section 3.9 "Controlling Warning Messages", for a +detailed discussion. + * New command line option `--level' The `--level=N' option sets the incremental dump level N. It @@ -77,10 +80,10 @@ the Epoch or a `Time reference' (see below). * Time references in --pax-option argument. Any value from the --pax-option argument that is enclosed in a pair -of curly braces. In that case, the string between the braces is -understood either as a textual time representation, as described in +of curly braces represents a time reference. The string between the +braces is understood either as a textual time representation, as described in chapter 7, "Date input formats", of the Tar manual, or as a name of -the existing file, starting with `/' or `.'. In the latter +an existing file, starting with `/' or `.'. In the latter case, the value is replaced with the modification time of that file. * Bugfixes @@ -90,6 +93,9 @@ case, the value is replaced with the modification time of that file. ** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories. ** The --remove-files option removes the files only if they were succesfully stored in the archive. +** Fix storing and listing of the volume labels in POSIX format. +** Improve algorithm for splitting long file names (ustar +format). version 1.22 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009-03-05