X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=352f5a27839d81c71cc8f8e261f514d536c02809;hb=2b1bffbad66faab91c3b080b63788d910f68632d;hp=41b30ea9214dc16cc49feb9933d43ea8fb950e7e;hpb=970f999818a52a107a89697666c54397403c09be;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 41b30ea..352f5a2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,69 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-12-27 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-08-08 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + +version 1.22.90 (Git) + +* Record size autodetection + +When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is +reported only if the archive is read from a device (as opposed +to regular files and pipes). + +* New command line option `--warning' + +The `--warning' command line option allows to suppress or enable +particular warning messages during `tar' run. It takes a single +argument (a `keyword'), identifying the class of warning messages +to affect. If the argument is prefixed with `no-', such warning +messages are suppressed. For example, + + tar --warning=no-alone-zero-block -x -f archive + +suppresses the output of `A lone zero block' diagnostics, which is +normally issued if `archive' ends with a single block of zeros. + +* New command line option `--level' + +The `--level=N' option sets the incremental dump level N. It +is valid when used in conjunction with the -c and --listed-incremental +options. So far the only meaningful value for N is 0. The +`--level=0' option forces creating the level 0 dump, by truncating +the snapshot file if it exists. + +* Bugfixes +** Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform. +** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files. +** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199). +** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories. + + +version 1.22 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009-03-05 + +* Support for xz compression + +Tar uses xz for compression if one of the following conditions is met: + + 1. The option --xz or -J (see below) is used. + 2. The xz binary is set as compressor using --use-compress-program option. + 3. The file name of the archive being created ends in `.xz' and + auto-compress option (-a) is used. + +Xz is used for decompression if one of the following conditions is met: + + 1. The option --xz or -J is used. + 2. The xz binary is set as compressor using --use-compress-program option. + 3. The file is recognized as xz compressed stream data. + +* Short option -J reassigned as a short equivalent of --xz + +* New option -I + +The -I option is assigned as a short equivalent for +--use-compress-program. + +* The --no-recursive option works in incremental mode. + version 1.21 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-12-27