Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - NEWS

   1 Current Version: 1.11.2
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   3
   4 User-visible changes since 1.11.1:
   5
   6 o Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
   7 o Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
   8 o New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
   9   of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
  10   compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
  11   now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
  12 o Several error messages are cleaned up.
  13 o Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
  14 o Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
  15   for --info-script.
  16 o Behave better with broken rmt servers.
  17 o Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
  18 o Several Makefile cleanups.
  19
  20 Version 1.11.1
  21 User-visible changes since 1.11:
  22
  23 o Many bug fixes
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  25 ================
  26 Version 1.11
  27 User-visible changes since 1.10:
  28
  29 o Many bug fixes
  30
  31 o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
  32
  33 o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
  34   will eventually be removed.
  35
  36 o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
  37   and causes -C to be ignored.
  38
  39 o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
  40   they are added to the archive.
  41
  42 o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
  43   the exit status.
  44
  45 o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
  46   being read or written.
  47
  48 o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
  49   omitted from the archive.
  50
  51 o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
  52   end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
  53
  54 o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
  55   not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
  56
  57 o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
  58   the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
  59   around to the beginning.
  60
  61 o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
  62   `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
  63   then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
  64
  65 o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
  66   original values after dumping the file.
  67
  68 o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
  69   to dump.
  70
  71 o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
  72   modification and access times.
  73
  74 o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
  75   precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
  76   longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
  77   long names to work.
  78
  79 \f
  80 ==================
  81 Version 1.10:
  82 User-visible changes since 1.09:
  83
  84 Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.
  85 Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
  86
  87 -g is now +incremental
  88 -G is now +listed-incremental
  89
  90 Sparse files now work correctly.
  91
  92 +volume is now called +label.
  93
  94 +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
  95 +exclude used to do.
  96
  97 Exit status is now correct.
  98
  99 +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 100
 101 When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 102
 103 New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
 104 you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
 105 instead of waiting for a write error.
 106
 107 New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
 108 people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
 109 need local modification.  These are what we use to do all our backups
 110 at the FSF.