New option --full-time.

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@@ -1,9 +1,29 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-11
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-28
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-* --test-label behavior
+* The --full-time option.
+
+New command line option `--full-time' instructs tar to output file
+time stamps to the full resolution.
+
+* Bugfixes.
+
+** Spurious error diagnostics on broken pipe.
+
+When receiving SIGPIPE, tar would exit with error status and
+"write error" diagnostics. In particular, this occurred if
+invoked as in the example below:
+
+   tar tf archive.tar | head -n 1
+
+** --remove-files
+
+Tar --remove-files failed to remove a directory which contained
+symlinks to another files within that directory.
+
+** --test-label behavior
 
 In case of a mismatch, `tar --test-label LABEL' exits with code 1,
 not 2 as it did in previous versions.
@@ -18,7 +38,7 @@ Several volume labels may be specified in a command line, e.g.:
 In this case, tar exits with code 0 if any one of the arguments
 matches the actual volume label.
 
-* --label used with --update
+** --label used with --update
 
 The `--label' option can be used with `--update' to prevent accidental
 update of an archive:
@@ -27,6 +47,8 @@ update of an archive:
 
 This did not work in previous versions, in spite of what the docs said.  
 
+** Fix dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option.
+
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 version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10
 
@@ -222,10 +244,10 @@ can be changed using `flags=' statement before the expressions, e.g.:
 
 ** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files.  This
 is fixed.
-** Fixed record size autodetection.  If detected record size differs from
-the expected value (either default, or set on the command line), tar
-always prints a warning if verbosity level is set to 1 or greater,
-i.e. if either -t or -v option is given.
+** Fixed record size autodetection.  If the detected record size differs from
+the expected value (either default one, or the one set from the
+command line), tar always prints a warning if verbosity level is set
+to 1 or greater, i.e. if either -t or -v option is given.
 
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@@ -325,7 +347,7 @@ settings.
 
 When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x,
 -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with
-code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
+code 0.  It is fixed.  Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
 'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2.
 
 * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.