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@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-See the end for copying conditions.
-
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased)
@@ -54,6 +49,14 @@ 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.
 
+* New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar
+quotes member names on output. The --quoting-style takes an argument
+specifying the quoting style to use (literal, shell, shell-always,
+c, escape, locale, clocale). The argument to --quote-chars is a string
+specifying characters to quote, even if the selected quoting style
+would not quote them otherwise. The option --no-quote-chars is
+provided to disable quoting certain characters.
+
 * 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
@@ -84,6 +87,11 @@ 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).
+** The --version option now also outputs information about copyright,
+license, and credits.  This reverts to the behavior of tar 1.14 and
+earlier, and conforms to the GNU coding standards.  The --license (-L)
+option introduced in tar 1.15 has been removed, since it's no longer
+needed.
 
 
 version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
@@ -729,8 +737,8 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 
 
 
-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
+2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.