X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=25a175e0349666b108a43eacd43b38a99afd1bae;hb=cbc51277aa4de1f41434ba073f2e4546ead63005;hp=2fa8f51ddbee3a7c7e4b2366fec21b02e9913b5e;hpb=debc485626c0c143731b0ca229d18b48085bb2ef;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2fa8f51..25a175e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-01-18 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-12-18 Please send GNU tar bug reports to @@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ adjusted to quote 'like this' (with apostrophes) instead of `like this' (with an accent grave character and an apostrophe). This tracks recent changes to the GNU coding standards. -* New features - -** --owner and --group names and numbers +* --owner and --group names and numbers The --owner and --group options now accept operands of the form NAME:NUM, so that you can specify both symbolic name and numeric ID @@ -34,6 +32,19 @@ errors. Instead it just silently skips them. An additional level of verbosity can be obtained by using the option --warning=existing-file together with this option. +* Support for POSIX ACLs, extended attributes and SELinux context. + +Starting with this version tar is able to store, extract and list +extended file attributes, POSIX.1e ACLs and SELinux context. This is +controlled by the command line options --xattrs, --acls and --selinux, +correspondingly. Each of these options has a `--no-' counterpart +(e.g. --no-xattrs), which disables the corresponding feature. +Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow +you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the +extended attributes. + +* New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging. + version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12