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| author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2010-11-07 16:04:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2010-11-07 16:04:48 +0200 |
| commit | ecd700fbfb6c4d04fd67f4fdf9944ff6377ff064 (patch) | |
| tree | a5084daa5de61f88fc92e32b2dc5da8dda83aca0 | |
| parent | f1fed3996a6c5b5f39ddb48cb5c88c09afe13fba (diff) | |
| download | tar-ecd700fbfb6c4d04fd67f4fdf9944ff6377ff064.tar.gz | |
Version 1.25release_1_25
* configure.ac: Version 1.25
* NEWS: Describe the changes.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 2 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,35 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-10-24 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-11-07 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org> +version 1.25 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-11-07 + +* Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect. +* Fix extraction of device nodes. +* Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation. + +Tar 1.24 changed the ordering of name matching and name transformation +so that the former saw already transformed file names. This made it +impossible to match file names in certain cases. It is fixed now. + +* Fix the behavior of tar -x --overwrite on hosts lacking O_NOFOLLOW. + +* Improve the testsuite. + +* Alternative decompression programs. + +If extraction from a compressed archive fails because the corresponding +compression program is not installed and the following two conditions +are met, tar retries extraction using an alternative decompressor: + + 1. Another compression program supported by tar is able to handle this + compression format. + 2. The compression program was not explicitly requested in the command + line by the use of such options as -z, -j, etc. + +For example, if `compress' is not available, tar will try `gzip'. + + version 1.24 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-10-24 * The --full-time option. diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 1de1ed3b..d112474f 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301, USA. -AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.24], [bug-tar@gnu.org]) +AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.25], [bug-tar@gnu.org]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/tar.c]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux]) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) |