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@@ -1,8 +1,50 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-12-18
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-22
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 
-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.  Some of them take
+optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent
+sign and the specifier letter.
+
+  %d        -  output number of seconds since tar started
+  %{r,w,d}T -  output I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
+               to be used before number of bytes read, written and
+	       deleted, correspondingly.
+  %{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.
+  %c        -  a shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+
+
+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.
+
+
+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 +85,43 @@ 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.
+
 
 version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
 
@@ -1383,15 +1460,14 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 
 
 
-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
-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
@@ -1399,9 +1475,7 @@ 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
-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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