Improve checkpoint interface.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-01-01
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-21
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.26.90 (Git)
+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:
+
+  %d  -  output number of seconds since tar started
+  %T  -  output I/O totals
+  %{FMT}t - output 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.
+
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+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
 
@@ -43,8 +80,43 @@ Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow
 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