X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a20523f2f2836a55b44b94c0333bfbbbc2ec318c;hb=7efe3850f6e058d33a46ef17cdc95df0469ed887;hp=14ec4a246c89eaf381ac30acd95c0bec8be9012a;hpb=761895d43c493f8583e73dda31435b595015c049;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 14ec4a2..a20523f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,34 +1,133 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-08 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +version 1.19.90 (CVS) + +* New option --auto-compress (-a) + +With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix +of the archive file name. + +* New option --lzma + +Selects LZMA compression algorithm + +* New option --hard-dereference + +During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files +they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1'). + +* New option --checkpoint-action + +This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a +checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default), +echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value. Any number +of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be +executed in order of their appearance in the command line. See +chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description. + +* The --transform option. + +Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line. +The specified transformations will be applied in turn. + +The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace +expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed'). + +Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets +during both creation and extraction. Tar 1.19 used them only +during extraction. + +For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member +Names". + +* Info (end-of-volume) scripts + +The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and +checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR. + +* Bugfixes. +** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing +archives. + + +version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10 + +* New option --exclude-vcs + +Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version +control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc. + +* --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options + +The following options now work with incremental archives as well: + + --exclude-caches + --exclude-caches-all + --exclude-tag + --exclude-tag-all + --exclude-tag-under + +* Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives. + +Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename +records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records +contain file names processed in accordance with the command line +settings. + +* Fix --version output. + +* Recognition of broken archives. + +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 '/.'. + +* Fix file padding in case of truncation of the input file to zero size. + + +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 $TAR_FD. - + 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'. @@ -42,7 +141,7 @@ 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 @@ -226,7 +325,7 @@ 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 @@ -883,13 +982,13 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, -2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 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, @@ -905,4 +1004,8 @@ 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: