From: Paul Eggert Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:23:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Describe 1.13.18. X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a829f56a6e283f80927ba9cae22ab3439ecc2562;p=chaz%2Ftar Describe 1.13.18. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 31c2a64..86acf51 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,36 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Copyright 1994-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +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. * `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy. @@ -8,11 +38,13 @@ 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 +192,7 @@ 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 +245,7 @@ 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,