X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=73271942ed2ac17852074fdb9101d8a9fd080adf;hb=00ac26f00c4aba300cf841b0d761f2a6d55b5cc1;hp=5102aa9776e5ea97f81ed4c8df5f94a2631b237d;hpb=cab627b49d8bd70f1db89ff1bab6b40f0fe69e2e;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5102aa9..7327194 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,17 +8,24 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.13.26 +* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format. +* New option --format allows to select the output archive format +* The default output format can be selected at configuration time +by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT. +Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX. +* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of +path elements from the name of the file being extracted. + * Bug fixes. * New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer the previous default behavior. -* New message translations en_GB (British English), fi (Finnish), gl - (Galician), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb - (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), - zh_TW (Chinese traditional). The code 'no' for Norwegian has been - withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. +* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian), + hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk + (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional). + The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. * The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible