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Version 1.34
     posted by gray, Sat 13 Feb 2021 11:53:17 AM UTC

Version 1.34 of GNU tar is available for download (see the download directory for archives in other formats).  This version fixes the following bugs:

[...]
Version 1.33
     posted by gray, 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.
[...]
Version 1.32
     posted by gray, Sat 23 Feb 2019 01:15:56 PM UTC

GNU tar version 1.32 is available for download.

New in this release:

  • Fix the use of --checkpoint without explicit --checkpoint-action


  • Fix extraction with the -U option


See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2019-01/msg00015.html,
for details

  • Fix iconv usage on BSD-based systems



  • Improve the testsuite
Version 1.31
     posted by gray, Wed 02 Jan 2019 07:17:56 PM UTC

Version 1.31 is available for download. New in this release:

  • Fix heap-buffer-overrun with --one-top-level.
  • Support for zstd compression.
  • The -K option interacts properly with member names given in the command line.
  • Fix CVE-2018-20482
Version 1.30
     posted by gray, Sun 17 Dec 2017 12:24:33 PM UTC

Version 1.30 of GNU tar is available for download. See the NEWS file, for a list of important changes in this release.

tar 1.29
     posted by gray, Mon 16 May 2016 07:20:04 PM UTC

GNU tar version 1.29 is available for download.

New in this release:

New options: --verbatim-files-from, --no-verbatim-files-from


The --verbatim-files-from option instructs tar to treat each line read from a file list as a file name, even if it starts with a dash. [...]

tar 1.28
     posted by gray, Sun 27 Jul 2014 09:19:11 PM UTC

GNU tar version 1.28 is available for download.

New in this release:

New checkpoint action: totals


The --checkpoint-action=totals option instructs tar to output the total number of bytes transferred at each checkpoint. [...]

Tar 1.27.1
     posted by gray, Sun 17 Nov 2013 05:26:11 PM UTC

Tar 1.27.1 is available for download. This release fixes some bugs found so far in version 1.27, namely:

  • Fix unquoting of file names obtained via the -T option.
  • Fix GNU long link header timestamp (backward compatibility).
  • Fix extracting sparse members from star archives.
Tar 1.27
     posted by eggert, Sun 20 Oct 2013 12:33:10 AM UTC

Tar 1.27 was made available for download on 2013-10-05. For information about what's new in this release, please see the NEWS file.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/plain/NEWS?id=release_1_27

Tar 1.26
     posted by gray, Sat 12 Mar 2011 11:20:41 AM UTC

Tar 1.26 is available for download.  Changes in this release:

  • Fix the --verify option, which broke in version 1.24.
  • Fix storing long sparse file names in PAX archives.
  • Fix correctness of --atime-preserve=replace
  • Work around POSIX incompatibilities on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Tru64
  • Fix bug with --one-file-system --listed-incremental

Older News Approved
Tar 1.25 posted by gray, Sun 07 Nov 2010 04:42:29 PM UTC
Tar 1.24 posted by gray, Sun 24 Oct 2010 10:56:57 PM UTC
Tar 1.23 posted by gray, Wed 10 Mar 2010 12:48:32 PM UTC
Migration to Git posted by gray, Sat 07 Mar 2009 03:53:35 PM UTC
Tar 1.22 posted by gray, Thu 05 Mar 2009 08:06:19 AM UTC
Tar 1.21 posted by gray, Fri 26 Dec 2008 11:22:59 PM UTC
Tar 1.20 posted by gray, Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:33:01 PM UTC
GNU tar 1.18 released (GPLv3) posted by gray, Fri 29 Jun 2007 09:39:40 PM UTC
GNU tar 1.17 released posted by gray, Fri 08 Jun 2007 10:50:42 AM UTC - 2 replies
GNU tar 1.16.1 posted by gray, Sat 09 Dec 2006 02:15:07 PM UTC
GNU tar 1.16 released posted by gray, Sat 21 Oct 2006 05:19:47 PM UTC
Tar 1.15.91 released posted by gray, Fri 16 Jun 2006 02:09:33 PM UTC
Tar 1.15.90 released posted by gray, Mon 20 Feb 2006 10:21:02 AM UTC
Important update: tar-1.15.1 posted by gray, Tue 21 Dec 2004 04:19:53 PM UTC
Tar 1.15 released posted by gray, Mon 20 Dec 2004 03:21:49 PM UTC
Tar 1.13.90 is available. posted by gray, Sat 01 Nov 2003 02:34:12 PM UTC

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