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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-13
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-11-07
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.27.90 (Git)
+version 1.28, 2014-07-28
 
 * New checkpoint action: totals
 
@@ -35,11 +35,40 @@ 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.
 
+* New option --sort
+
+The --sort=ORDER option instructs tar to sort directory entries
+according to ORDER.  It takes effect when creating archives.
+Available ORDERs are: none (the default), name and inode.  The
+latter may be absent, if the underlying system does not provide
+the necessary information.
+
+Using --sort=name ensures the member ordering in the created archive
+is uniform and reproducible.  Using --sort=inode reduces the number
+of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably
+speed up archivation.
+
+* New exclusion options
+
+  --exclude-ignore=FILE   Before dumping a directory check if it
+                          contains FILE, and if so read exclude
+                          patterns for this directory from FILE.
+  --exclude-ignore-recursive=FILE
+                          Same as above, but the exclusion patterns
+                          read from FILE remain in effect for any
+                         subdirectory, recursively.
+  --exclude-vcs-ignores   Read exclude tags from VCS ignore files,
+                          where such files exist.  Supported VCS's
+                          are: CVS, Git, Bazaar, Mercurial.
+                         
+
+* Tar refuses to read input from and write output to a tty device.
+
 * 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.
+home-made pages they have been providing so far.
   
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 version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
@@ -340,7 +369,7 @@ Modification times in ustar header blocks of extended headers
 are set to mtimes of the corresponding archive members.  This
 can be overridden by the
 
-  --pax-opion='exthdr.mtime=STRING'
+  --pax-option='exthdr.mtime=STRING'
 
 command line option.  The STRING is either number of seconds since
 the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below).
@@ -350,7 +379,7 @@ headers are set to the time when tar was invoked.
 
 This can be overridden by the
 
-  --pax-opion='globexthdr.mtime=STRING'
+  --pax-option='globexthdr.mtime=STRING'
 
 command line option.  The STRING is either number of seconds since
 the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below).