X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=14ec4a246c89eaf381ac30acd95c0bec8be9012a;hb=6287d3045f5c7510d265e65e3200f46b59ba8e70;hp=deb3baf246ea6b85ac7de95b0a3329cd353dfeee;hpb=01d61882973471f72122667e186331fdb6eee342;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index deb3baf..14ec4a2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,48 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Please send GNU tar bug reports to +version 1.16.2 + +* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode. Previous versions padded + sparse members with spurious zero blocks. + +* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental. Version 1.16.1 produced + a full dump when both options were given. + +* Fix --occurence. In previous versions it continued scanning the archive + even though all requested members has already been extracted. + +* The options --transform and --strip-components affect hard and soft link + targets. + +* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing + it to the file descriptor $TAR_FD. + + +version 1.16.1 + +* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. + files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not + be archived. + +* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the + CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded + directory contents only, while the directories themselves were + still added to the archive. + +* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed. + This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'. + Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see + . + We don't expect that any tar archives in practical use have type 'N' + records, but if you have one and you trust its contents, you can + decode it with GNU tar 1.16 or earlier. + +* Race conditions have been fixed that in some cases briefly allowed + files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when + running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been. + + version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were @@ -841,7 +883,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, -2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.