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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-26
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-04-14
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 
-version 1.18.1 (CVS)
+version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14
+
+* New option --auto-compress (-a)
+
+With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix
+of the archive file name.
+
+* New option --lzma
+
+Selects LZMA compression algorithm
+
+* New option --hard-dereference
+
+During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files
+they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1').
+
+* New option --checkpoint-action
+
+This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a
+checkpoint.  Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default),
+echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value.  Any number
+of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be
+executed in order of their appearance in the command line.  See
+chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description.
+
+* New options --no-check-device, --check-device.
+
+The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during
+preparatory stage of an incremental dump.  This allows to avoid
+creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an
+LVM snapshot).
+
+The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers.  This is
+the default.  This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous
+`--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS
+environment variable.
+
+* The --transform option.
+
+Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line.
+The specified transformations will be applied in turn.
+
+The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace
+expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed').
+
+Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets
+during both creation and extraction.  Tar 1.19 used them only
+during extraction.
+
+For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member
+Names". 
+
+* Info (end-of-volume) scripts
+
+The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
+checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR.
+
+* Bugfixes.
+** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing
+archives.
+
+
+version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10
 
 * New option --exclude-vcs
 
-Excludes directories and files, internal to some widely used version
+Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version
 control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc.
 
 * --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options
@@ -19,9 +81,16 @@ The following options now work with incremental archives as well:
   --exclude-tag-all
   --exclude-tag-under
 
+* Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives.
+
+Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename
+records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records
+contain file names processed in accordance with the command line
+settings.
+  
 * Fix --version output.
 
-* Recognition of broken archive.
+* Recognition of broken archives.
 
 When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x,
 -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with
@@ -30,6 +99,8 @@ code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
 
 * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.
 
+* Fix file padding in case of truncation of the input file to zero size.
+
 
 version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29
 
@@ -923,7 +994,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 
 
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-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.