X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9b6b21cc9115988ef3cf19a11b19b82600379daf;hb=1a1cfaafa64c6255b237cdd4fe679c1829d3f7e2;hp=deb3baf246ea6b85ac7de95b0a3329cd353dfeee;hpb=01d61882973471f72122667e186331fdb6eee342;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index deb3baf..9b6b21c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,30 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Please send GNU tar bug reports to +version 1.16.1 + +* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. + files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not + be archived. + +* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the + CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded + directory contents only, while the directories themselves were + still added to the archive. + +* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed. + This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'. + Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see + . + We don't expect that any tar archives in practical use have type 'N' + records, but if you have one and you trust its contents, you can + decode it with GNU tar 1.16 or earlier. + +* Race conditions have been fixed that in some cases briefly allowed + files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when + running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been. + + version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were