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Version 1.33

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Thu 07 Jan 2021 03:05:59 PM UTC.

Version 1.33 of GNU tar is available for download.  Summary of changes in this version:

  • POSIX extended format headers do not include PID by default.
  • --delay-directory-restore works for archives with reversed member ordering.
  • Fix extraction of a symbolic link hardlinked to another symbolic link.
  • Wildcards in exclude-vcs-ignore mode don't match slash.
  • Fix the --no-overwrite-dir option.
  • Fix handling of chained renames in incremental backups.
  • Link counting works for file names supplied with -T
  • Accept only position-sensitive (file-selection) options in file list files.

 

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