-* New option --show-stored-names. When creating archive in verbose mode,
-lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e. with any eventual
-prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing
-`tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
+* New option --show-stored-names. When creating an archive in verbose mode,
+it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
+prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing
+`tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
+
+* New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature
+of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
+access times.