X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8244bad1e10675781564819569ee7d2a8e71449a;hb=ecd700fbfb6c4d04fd67f4fdf9944ff6377ff064;hp=66d9c880e0b0ea34190298582858f0517503e645;hpb=f1fed3996a6c5b5f39ddb48cb5c88c09afe13fba;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 66d9c88..8244bad 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,34 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-10-24 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-11-07 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + +version 1.25 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-11-07 + +* Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect. +* Fix extraction of device nodes. +* Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation. + +Tar 1.24 changed the ordering of name matching and name transformation +so that the former saw already transformed file names. This made it +impossible to match file names in certain cases. It is fixed now. + +* Fix the behavior of tar -x --overwrite on hosts lacking O_NOFOLLOW. + +* Improve the testsuite. + +* Alternative decompression programs. + +If extraction from a compressed archive fails because the corresponding +compression program is not installed and the following two conditions +are met, tar retries extraction using an alternative decompressor: + + 1. Another compression program supported by tar is able to handle this + compression format. + 2. The compression program was not explicitly requested in the command + line by the use of such options as -z, -j, etc. + +For example, if `compress' is not available, tar will try `gzip'. + version 1.24 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-10-24