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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2017-11-16 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2017-12-17 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org> -version 1.29.90 (Git) +version 1.30 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2017-12-17 * Member names containing '..' components are now skipped when extracting. @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ This fixes tar's behavior to match its documentation, and is a bit safer when extracting untrusted archives over old files (an unsafe practice that the tar manual has long recommended against). -* Report erroneous use of positional options. +* Report erroneous use of position-sensitive options. During archive creation or update, tar keeps track of positional options (see the manual, subsection 3.4.4 "Position-Sensitive @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ invoked as tar will create the archive, but will exit with status 2, having issued the following error message - tar: The following options were used after any non-optional + tar: The following options were used after non-optional arguments in archive create or update mode. These options are positional and affect only arguments that follow them. Please, rearrange them properly. @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ issued the following error message tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors * --numeric-owner now affects private headers too. + This helps the output of 'tar' to be more deterministic. * Fixed the --delay-directory-restore option @@ -49,6 +50,11 @@ This includes warnings about unreadable files produced when --ignore-failed-read is in effect. To output these, use --warnings=none --warnings=no-failed-read. +* Fix reporting of hardlink mismatches during compare + +Tar reported incorrect target file name in the 'Not linked to' +diagnostic message. + version 1.29 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2016-05-16 |