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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-11-19
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-11-17

 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.26.90 (Git)
+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.
+
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+version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05
+
+* Bug fixes
+
+** Sparse files with large data
+
+When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts
+the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB.

 
 * Quoting
 
 
 * Quoting
 


@@ -11,9 +29,7 @@ adjusted to quote 'like this' (with apostrophes) instead of `like this'
 (with an accent grave character and an apostrophe).  This tracks
 recent changes to the GNU coding standards.
 
 (with an accent grave character and an apostrophe).  This tracks
 recent changes to the GNU coding standards.
 

-* New features
-
-** --owner and --group names and numbers
+* --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
 
 The --owner and --group options now accept operands of the form
 NAME:NUM, so that you can specify both symbolic name and numeric ID


@@ -45,6 +61,43 @@ Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow
 you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the
 extended attributes.
 
 you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the
 extended attributes.
 

+* Passing command line arguments to external commands.
+
+Any option taking a command name as its argument now accepts a full
+command line as well.  Thus, it is now possible to pass additional
+arguments to invoked programs.  The affected options are:
+
+  --checkpoint-action=exec
+  -I, --use-compress-program
+  -F, --info-script
+  --to-command
+
+Furthermore, if any additional information is supplied to such a
+command via environment variables, these variables can now be used in
+the command line itself.  Care should be taken to escape them, to
+prevent from being expanded too early, for example:
+
+  tar -x -f a.tar --info-script='changevol $TAR_ARCHIVE $TAR_VOLUME'
+
+* New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging.
+
+* New warning control option --warning=[no-]record-size
+
+On extraction, this option controls whether to display actual record
+size, if it differs from the default.
+
+* New command line option --keep-directory-symlink
+
+By default, if trying to extract a directory from the archive,
+tar discovers that the corresponding file name already exists and is a
+symbolic link, it first unlinks the entry, and then extracts the directory.
+
+This option disables this behavior and instructs tar to follow
+symlinks to directories when extracting from the archive.  
+
+It is mainly intended to provide compatibility with the Slackware
+installation scripts.
+

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 version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
 
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 version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
 


@@ -1383,15 +1436,14 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 
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-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
 This file is part of GNU tar.
 
 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.
 
 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

-the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
-any later version.
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.

 
 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 
 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of


@@ -1399,9 +1451,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

-along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
-Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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