X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c1df7e5e8c6b84e42c7420c8bae46724c9c09276;hb=338add8d10a787aafb6fd57aeae497a79a8d5855;hp=bf02a24b7e0614682d86b7a3c7a3dae224df2cba;hpb=cef4d5e83830763a1acd5d603fb62a356df27299;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bf02a24..c1df7e5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-09-08 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-10 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.22.90 (Git) +version 1.22.91 (Git) * Record size autodetection @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ messages are suppressed. For example, suppresses the output of `A lone zero block' diagnostics, which is normally issued if `archive' ends with a single block of zeros. +See Tar Manual, section 3.9 "Controlling Warning Messages", for a +detailed discussion. + * New command line option `--level' The `--level=N' option sets the incremental dump level N. It @@ -53,11 +56,58 @@ and sets the exit code to 1, which means "some files differ". If the --warning=no-file-removed option is given, no warning is issued and the exit code remains 0. +* Modification times of PAX extended headers. + +Modification times in the ustar header blocks for the +extended headers are set to the mtimes of the corresponding archive +members. This can be overridden by the + + --pax-opion='exthdr.mtime=STRING' + +command line option. The STRING is either the number of seconds since +the Epoch or a `Time reference' (see below). + +Modification times in the ustar header blocks for the global +extended headers are set to the time when tar was invoked. + +This can be overridden by the + + --pax-opion='globexthdr.mtime=STRING' + +command line option. The STRING is either the number of seconds since +the Epoch or a `Time reference' (see below). + +* Time references in --pax-option argument. + +Any value from the --pax-option argument that is enclosed in a pair +of curly braces represents a time reference. The string between the +braces is understood either as a textual time representation, as described in +chapter 7, "Date input formats", of the Tar manual, or as a name of +an existing file, starting with `/' or `.'. In the latter +case, the value is replaced with the modification time of that file. + +* Environment of --to-command script. + +The environment passed to the --to-command script is extended with +the following variables: + + TAR_VERSION GNU tar version number + TAR_ARCHIVE The name of the archive + TAR_VOLUME Ordinal number of the volume + TAR_FORMAT Format of the archive + TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR Current blocking factor + * Bugfixes ** Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform. ** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files. ** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199). ** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories. +** The --remove-files option removes the files only if they were +succesfully stored in the archive. +** Fix storing and listing of the volume labels in POSIX format. +** Improve algorithm for splitting long file names (ustar +format). +** Fix possible memory overflow in the rmt client code (CVE-2010-0624). version 1.22 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009-03-05 @@ -1149,7 +1199,7 @@ 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, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.