Raise version number to 1.17

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5ea0a1b81b3e08706309b85f6dddaf953f2bb527..068efc48c674a38e48daa6fef8631e02cf3c9b67 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2007-06-08  Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@gnu.org.ua>
 
+       * configure.ac, NEWS: Raise version number to 1.17
+
        * doc/tar.texi, doc/intern.texi: Replace: s/filename/file name/;
        s/(ASCII|ID|BSD)/@acronym{&}/;s/"[^"]+"/``&''/
        Use `path' only when it refers to search paths, use

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14ec4a246c89eaf381ac30acd95c0bec8be9012a..c1a1892be282ea6a3b2094fc523c17cd5b604db8 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-06-08
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 \f
-version 1.16.2
+version 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08
 
 * Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.  Previous versions padded
   sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
@@ -12,14 +12,17 @@ version 1.16.2
 * Fix --occurence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
   even though all requested members has already been extracted.
 
-* The options --transform and --strip-components affect hard and soft link
-  targets.
+* Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
+
+In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform
+option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components
+option affects hard link targets as well. 
 
 * End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
-  it to the file descriptor $TAR_FD.
+  it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'.
      
 \f
-version 1.16.1
+version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09
 
 * New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. 
   files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not 
@@ -226,7 +229,7 @@ Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member
 was not processed correctly.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.
-** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
+** Compare mode (tar d) hung when trying to compare file contents.
 ** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
 modification times.
 ** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
@@ -905,4 +908,8 @@ Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 Local variables:
 mode: outline
 paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+time-stamp-start: "changes. "
+time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d"
+time-stamp-end: "\n"
 end:

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a5a95abe2380b289f72705bf7b70ff4d96258033..c1d3fb983617ebccfc2b40c9801bd1f8c347661f 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 # 02110-1301, USA.
 
-AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.16.2], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.17], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/tar.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.hin])