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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b9de750..4a3a2a2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,31 +1,59 @@
-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 1.16.2
+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 --occurence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
+* Fix --occurrence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
   even though all requested members has already been extracted.
 
-* The options --transform and --strip-components affect hard and soft link
-  targets.
-   
+* 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
+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 
+* 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. 
+  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'.
@@ -39,7 +67,7 @@ version 1.16.1
   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
 
 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were
@@ -223,7 +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
@@ -886,7 +914,7 @@ 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,
@@ -902,4 +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: