X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a55eb34088d59ba9d60ce9883e2fd17d03127b42;hb=57bfbbde90dfcc18ee6b1e27c01ba915ecc56312;hp=b9de750686e889afd97af1242fe575aed5dce616;hpb=40f79286abcc28c2af18cb49186e5639769441fe;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b9de750..a55eb34 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,31 +1,192 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-10-16 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +version 1.20.90 (CVS) + +* New short option -J + +A shortcut for --lzma. + +* New option --lzop + +* New option --no-auto-compress + +Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option. + +* New option --no-null + +Cancels the effect of previous --null option. + +* Compressed format recognition + +If tar is unable to determine archive compression format, it falls +back to using archive suffix to determine it. + +* VCS support. + +Using --exclude-vcs handles also files used internally by Bazaar, +Mercurial and Darcs. + +* The --transform-symlink option. + +The effect of the --transform option on the symbolic links targets is +controlled by --transform-symlink and --no-transform-symlink options. +By default, transformations do not apply to symlink targets, +which corresponds to the behavior of version 1.19. To apply +transformations to symlink targets as well, use --transform-symlink +option. The --no-transform-symlink option cancels the effect of any +prior --transform-symlink. + +* Bugfixes + +** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files. This +is fixed. + + + +version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14 + +* 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. + +* New options --no-check-device, --check-device. + +The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during +preparatory stage of an incremental dump. This allows to avoid +creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an +LVM snapshot). + +The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers. This is +the default. This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous +`--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS +environment variable. + +* 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. + +* Incremental archives + +Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives. + +* Bugfixes. +** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing +archives. + -version 1.16.2 +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 1.17 - 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 +200,7 @@ 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 +384,7 @@ 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 @@ -880,13 +1041,13 @@ 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, @@ -902,4 +1063,8 @@ 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: