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@@ -38,6 +38,27 @@ it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
 prefixes removed.  The option is useful, for example, while comparing
 `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
 
+* New option --to-command pipes the contents of archive members to the
+specified command.
+
+* New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature
+of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
+access times.
+
+* New option --delay-directory-restore delays restoring modification times
+and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction.
+This is necessary for restoring from archives with unusual member
+ordering (in particular, those created with --no-recursion option).
+This option is implied when restoring from incremental archives.
+
+* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
+options.  Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
+
+* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
+get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
+the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME.  It can alter the
+archive name by writing new name to the file descriptor 3.
+
 * Better support for full-resolution time stamps.  Tar cannot restore
 time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
 guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time
@@ -58,6 +79,11 @@ was not processed correctly.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.
 ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
+** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
+modification times.
+** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
+meta-data cannot be stored in the header due to format limitations
+(for ustar and v7 formats).
 
 
 version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21