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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,72 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-08-24
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
+
+
+version 1.18.1 (CVS)
+
+* Fix --version output.
+
+* Recognition of broken archive.
+
+When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x,
+-t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with
+code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
+'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2.
+
+* Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.
+
+
+version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29
+
+* Licensed under the GPLv3
+
+* Fixed several bugs in the testsuite
+
+
+version 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08
+
+* 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 --occurrence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
+  even though all requested members has already been extracted.
+
+* Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
+
+In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform
+option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components
+option affects hard link targets as well.
+
+* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
+  it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'.
+
+
+version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09
+
+* 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
+  <http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-11/0344.html>.
+  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
 
@@ -184,7 +251,7 @@ Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member
 was not processed correctly.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.
-** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
+** Compare mode (tar d) hung when trying to compare file contents.
 ** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
 modification times.
 ** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
@@ -841,13 +908,13 @@ 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.
 
 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
 any later version.
 
 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
@@ -863,4 +930,8 @@ Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 Local variables:
 mode: outline
 paragraph-separate: "[	]*$"
+eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+time-stamp-start: "changes. "
+time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d"
+time-stamp-end: "\n"
 end: