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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-27
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-03-27
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 
@@ -15,15 +15,54 @@ 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
+  %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   -  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"
+  %{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.
+
+* 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
 
@@ -42,14 +81,6 @@ version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
 
 * Fix extracting sparse members from star archives.
 
-* The --one-top-level option.
-
-This new command line option tells tar that the working directory
-(or the one passed to -C) should not be populated with more than one
-name directly under it.  Instead, a newly created subdirectory is
-used whose name is equal to the archive name without the extension.
-For example, foo.tar.gz would be extracted to foo.
-
 
 version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05
 
@@ -1474,7 +1505,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 
 
 
-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.