X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d00b0942f124c075be08e56cf6ec9048e75d81b6;hb=f34eafea87a7b35153d79b9dc7430bdfc206fb79;hp=1fedeb5003deb6d4a46d45dd0ac623d1cc3d0020;hpb=271450942bda56b957cebdf8ec27830dd1d597ac;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1fedeb5..d00b094 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,102 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright © 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -version 1.12.64000 - Paul Eggert, 1999-01-20. +version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18. -This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large file environments -like Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 that rely on integer system -types longer than `long'. Please send bug reports specific to this -unofficial version of GNU `tar' to . +* `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one. + POSIX.1 requires this, and some other `tar' implementations check for it. -This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's -just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for -large file hosts. The patches of this -release have all been submitted via the usual channels and -they should no longer be needed once the next official release -of GNU tar is out. +* `tar' no longer silently accepts a block containing nonzero checksum bytes + as a zero block. + +* `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a + numeric header field. + + +version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16. + +* For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories + created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of + the original file or directory. + + +version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14. + +* --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options. + +* When creating an archive, leading `./' is no longer stripped, + to match traditional tar's behavior (and simplify the documentation). + +* --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names. + + +version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11. + +* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an + initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to + exclude a file if it matches any file name compoment. + +* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly. + Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric. + The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC" is for portability + when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar. + The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent, + for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt. + +* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64 + for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal. + This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes), + larger uids, negative timestamps, etc. + +* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the + uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY + and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody". + +* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic. + +* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request. + + +version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20. + +* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error. + + +version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20. + +* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given; + this matches historical practice. + + +version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16. + +* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an + excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line. + Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area. + + +version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14. + +* Bug reporting address changed to . + + +version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12. + +* Bug fixes only. + +version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08. + +* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts. + Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc. +* Many bug fixes and porting fixes. +* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release, + with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see: + http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/ + The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils + at some point, but they haven't been merged yet. +* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options, + but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils. + Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2. Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.