X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=63c789896cdbbc3f191dbd0094c3f0e96229610e;hb=2d57bb240d22259f0e2af3a36e7314f4cacf2434;hp=79a99067072e8a327114f9b4c7df9dac3fa8b9b8;hpb=53a80edafc13777b56130d187ecdf4128e5526bd;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 79a9906..63c7898 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,7 +5,17 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.14.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, +version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21 + +This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused +tar to refuse to extract files from standard input. + + +version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20 + +* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer +necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can +now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'. * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices @@ -54,10 +64,13 @@ previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first extracted copy in such cases. -** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option. -** Fixed verification of the created archives. -** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous +** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option (which +didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect). +** Fixed verification of created archives. +** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous versions failed to recognize \a and \v). +** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous +versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes. version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11