-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>
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-version 1.29.90 (Git)
+version 1.30 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2017-12-17
* Member names containing '..' components are now skipped when extracting.
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
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.
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
--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.
+
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version 1.29 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2016-05-16
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.29.90], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.30], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/tar.c])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])