X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ca1d5055bb9d54c4e0710a8d5140558bbedb2880;hb=927c0ccf1373f6d857edb23f124d6a54e280cf3c;hp=31c2a6412ddb606f9070bb33b0a8c43a5efc93b1;hpb=e1fba9a30bd296aa0852a5e16e781fd6dd977096;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 31c2a64..ca1d505 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,76 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright 1994-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free + Software Foundation, Inc. + + This file is part of GNU tar. + + GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) + any later version. + + GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to + the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, + Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + + +version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-26 + +* More security problems have been fixed. + +* New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion. + +* New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards, + --wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored). + Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these control how exclude + patterns are interpreted. The default interpretation of exclude + patterns is now --no-anchored --no-ignore-case --recursion + --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash. + +version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13 + +* The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing. + Eventually it is planned to be reintroduced, with the same meaning as -T. + +* With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken + to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date. + +version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29 + +* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only + files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe + option like --absolute-names or --overwrite. + +* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j, + and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar. + +* The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License. + +* The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options. + +* The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too. + +* The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly. + +* Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS. + The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old. + +* New language supported: da. + +* Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported. + If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead. + +* This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later. + Please see . + +* `tar --delete -f -' now works again. version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07. @@ -8,11 +79,13 @@ version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07. version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13. -* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite existing files when - extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes them before - extracting. There is one exception: existing nonempty directories - are not removed, nor are their ownerships or permissions extracted. - This fixes some longstanding security problems. +* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when + extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file + before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the + link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one + exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are + their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some + longstanding security problems. The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior. @@ -160,7 +233,7 @@ version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11. * The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly. Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric. - The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC" is for portability + The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar. The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent, for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt. @@ -213,7 +286,7 @@ version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08. * Many bug fixes and porting fixes. * This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release, with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see: - http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/ + ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/ The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils at some point, but they haven't been merged yet. * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options, @@ -396,3 +469,8 @@ Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01. Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. * See ChangeLog for more details. + + +Local Variables: +coding: iso-latin-1 +End: