X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ea3a27d22b81abe4e572168fcb719b2851f56a84;hb=e9e94531f0fb4a24a0e8faa3246eb1ff6695e436;hp=ffeb4b844a5242381a323fa98c08b4bb4b1af787;hpb=f6c25db5fef8f1e82c7a9e87ed42d311cb1bcb32;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ffeb4b8..ea3a27d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,65 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-10-05 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-10 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + +version 1.27.90 (Git) + +* New checkpoint action: totals + +The --checkpoint-action=totals option instructs tar to output the +total number of bytes transferred at each checkpoint. + +* Extended checkpoint format specification. + +New conversion specifiers are implemented. Some of them take +optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent +sign and the specifier letter. + + %d - Number of seconds since tar started. + %{r,w,d}T - I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes + to be used before number of bytes read, written and + deleted, correspondingly. + %{FMT}t - Current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format. + If {FMT} is omitted, use %c. + %{N}* - Pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the + current screen width, if {N} is not given. + %c - A shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r" + +* New option --one-top-level + +The option --one-top-level tells tar to extract all files into a +subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard +compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress). When used with +an argument, as in --one-top-level=DIR, the files are extracted into the +supplied DIRectory. This ensures that no archive members are +extracted outside of the specified directory, even if the archive is +crafted so as to put them elsewhere. + +* Manpages + +This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages. +Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the +home-made pages they provided so far. + + +version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17 + +* Bug fixes + +* Fix unquoting of file names obtained via the -T option. + +* Fix GNU long link header timestamp (backward compatibility). + +* Fix extracting sparse members from star archives. + +* The --one-top-level option. + +This new command line option tells tar that the working directory +(or the one passed to -C) should not be populated with more than one +name directly under it. Instead, a newly created subdirectory is +used whose name is equal to the archive name without the extension. +For example, foo.tar.gz would be extracted to foo. + version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05 @@ -1425,7 +1484,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.