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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-10
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-14
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 
@@ -35,6 +35,19 @@ 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.
 
+* New option --sort
+
+The --sort=ORDER option instructs tar to sort directory entries
+according to ORDER.  It takes effect when creating archives.
+Available ORDERs are: none (the default), name and inode.  The
+latter may be absent, if the underlying system does not provide
+the necessary information.
+
+Using --sort=name ensures the member ordering in the created archive
+is uniform and reproducible.  Using --sort=inode reduces the number
+of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably
+speed up archivation.
+
 * Manpages
 
 This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
@@ -52,14 +65,6 @@ version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
 
 * 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