From 38800587a95d1d74fb6dc9ce54722da5f0c88d0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:12:04 -0800 Subject: doc: NEWS: mention the gzip->xz release tarball switch * NEWS (Build-related): Mention that we are now distributing only .tar.xz archives; no more gzip-compressed tarballs. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9456f34..19390a4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ GNU sed NEWS -*- outline -*- is what stopped working. [bug introduced some time after sed-3.02 and prior to the first sed-4* test release] +** Build-related + + "make dist" now builds .tar.xz files, rather than .tar.gz ones. + xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing + only .tar.xz files is enough. It has been fine for coreutils, grep, + diffutils and parted for a few years. + * Noteworthy changes in release 4.2.2 (2012-12-22) [stable] -- cgit v1.2.1