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@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ specified command.
 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.
 
@@ -75,6 +81,9 @@ 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