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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-11-17
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-13
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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+version 1.27.90 (Git)
+
+* New checkpoint action: totals
+
+The --checkpoint-action=totals option instructs tar to output the
+total number of bytes transferred at each checkpoint.
+
+* Extended checkpoint format specification.
+
+New conversion specifiers are implemented.  Some of them take
+optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent
+sign and the specifier letter.
+
+  %d        -  Number of seconds since tar started.
+  %{r,w,d}T -  I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
+               to be used before number of bytes read, written and
+              deleted, correspondingly.
+  %{FMT}t   -  Current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format.
+               If {FMT} is omitted, use %c.
+  %{N}*     -  Pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the 
+               current screen width, if {N} is not given.
+  %c        -  A shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+
+* New option --one-top-level
+
+The option --one-top-level tells tar to extract all files into a
+subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard
+compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress).  When used with
+an argument, as in --one-top-level=DIR, the files are extracted into the
+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.
+
+* Manpages
+
+This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
+Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the
+home-made pages they provided so far.
+  
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 version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
 
@@ -1436,7 +1476,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 
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-Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.