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@@ -1,6 +1,26 @@
 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
+version 1.16.2
+
+* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.  Previous versions padded
+  sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
+  
+* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.  Version 1.16.1 produced
+  a full dump when both options were given.
+
+
+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
@@ -13,6 +33,7 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
   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
@@ -853,7 +874,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 
 
 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.