GNU tar - News: Tar 1.24

Tar 1.24

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Sun 24 Oct 2010 10:56:57 PM UTC.

GNU tar 1.24 is available for download.  Main changes in this release:

• The --full-time option.
• More reliable directory traversal when creating archives
• --dereference consistency.
• Extracts symlink attributes, such as last-modified time and link permissions, if the operating system supports this.
• Fixed spurious error diagnostics on broken pipe.
• Fixed --remove-files bug (previous version would fail to remove a directory which contained symlinks to another files within that directory).
• Allows to use --label together with --update.
• The options --record-size and --tape-length (-L) accept size suffixes.
• Fixed dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option.

See the NEWS file for a detailed list of changes.