X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1563f512ecd2bbccded793dea4e42fcef6a51aab;hb=5bfb6c5f9d105850ca9628dae7ef8d4d27687f70;hp=7348e82d89ccb9f3209df6ef8c69ae336afa8af5;hpb=2c56ca0e7fabb1dfcc4290426b0252d717ef936f;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7348e82..1563f51 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,23 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-27 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-10-17 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.18.90 (CVS) +(CVS) +* New option --auto-compress (-a) + +With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix +of the archive file name. + +* New option --lzma + +Selects LZMA compression algorithm + + +version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10 * New option --exclude-vcs -Excludes directories and files, internal to some widely used version +Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc. * --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options @@ -19,9 +30,16 @@ The following options now work with incremental archives as well: --exclude-tag-all --exclude-tag-under +* Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives. + +Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename +records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records +contain file names processed in accordance with the command line +settings. + * Fix --version output. -* Recognition of broken archive. +* Recognition of broken archives. When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x, -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with @@ -30,6 +48,8 @@ code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message: * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'. +* Fix file padding in case of truncation of the input file to zero size. + version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29