tar: --owner and --group names and numbers

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2011-03-12
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2011-08-13
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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+version ?.? - ?, 201?-??-??
+
+* New features
+
+** --owner and --group names and numbers
+
+The --owner and --group options now accept operands of the form
+NAME:NUM, so that you can specify both symbolic name and numeric ID
+for owner and group.  In these options, NAME no longer needs to be
+present in the current host's user and group databases.
+
 version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
 
 * Bugfixes