X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=bea15576a4b382b7e267093cd0b5636a000e3be0;hb=b893aee6d22f11d234157d4bf8deb1b7ad53680e;hp=8c57082e1f769c076e43bc096ed8572ed1a865da;hpb=57304e8b0a0f1c3aa9e34cc1397a40cf5f8b0d7f;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8c57082..bea1557 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,97 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-06-08 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-07 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +version 1.19.1 (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, 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. + +* 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. + +* 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 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08 @@ -886,13 +978,13 @@ 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,