X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fa096500758cc21d3e7e47b2450cb99d233c09b1;hb=e35d05b1d2ecfb5acea961b60706e25c77c01949;hp=76f818376a659006a12091e354d430ff1aa56e6c;hpb=f984c43b822035eb6ba2dbb37ad84ebe91ca4bbb;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 76f8183..fa09650 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,34 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version) +* 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 +changed while being read. Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal +error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived. + +* New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive +members during creation. + +* Bug fixes +** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options. +** tar --index-file=FILE --file=- sent the archive to FILE, and +the listing to stderr. + + +version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-06-16 * Incompatible changes @@ -19,14 +46,14 @@ no longer uses globbing by default. For example, the above invocation is now interpreted as a request to extract from the archive the file named '*.c'. -To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option. +To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option. If you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90, add --wildcards to the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS. The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the following command line options: - --wildcards use wildcards + --wildcards use wildcards --anchored patterns match file name start --ignore-case ignore case --wildcards-match-slash wildcards match `/' @@ -34,7 +61,7 @@ following command line options: Each of these options has a '--no-' counterpart that disables its effect (e.g. --no-wildcards). -These options affect both the interpretation of member names from +These options affect both the interpretation of member names from command line and that of the exclusion patterns (given with --exclude and --exclude-from options). The defaults are: @@ -50,7 +77,7 @@ case-sensitive matching for the rest of command line, one could write: ** Short option -l is now an alias of --check-links option, which complies with UNIX98. This ends the transition period started with version 1.14. - + * New features ** New option --transform allows to transform file names before storing them @@ -65,17 +92,29 @@ will add 'prefix/' to all file names stored in foo.tar. versions it worked only with --extract. ** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file -or archive. In particular, when creating archive in verbose mode, -the option lists member names as stored in the archive. It -generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in 1.15.90. In -particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists member -names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes +or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in +1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists +member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes removed and file name transformations applied. The option is useful, for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs. -** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names +** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names as well as that about directories. +** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number +of records between the two successive checkpoints. Optional dot +starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual +checkpoints. + +** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions +understood it only with --create). If an argument to this option is +given, it specifies the signal upon delivery of which the statistics +is to be printed. Both forms of this option (with and without +argument) can be given to in a single invocation of tar. + +* Bug fixes +** Detect attempts to update compressed archives. + version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19