X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=47ef203a0b7c2f1b90c396eed0af43f36ce87cd1;hb=49ea4c50575f66e8f0450e463e1d882eed6255ec;hp=deb3baf246ea6b85ac7de95b0a3329cd353dfeee;hpb=409bddf38c61520400e74332b02cc1cc9f8379ce;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index deb3baf..47ef203 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Please send GNU tar bug reports to +* 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. + version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were