GNU tar - News
posted by gray, Sat 07 Mar 2009 03:53:35 PM UTC - 0 replies
Tar's repository has migrated from CVS to GIT. See http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=tar for additional information.
posted by gray, Thu 05 Mar 2009 08:06:19 AM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.22 is available for download. Main changes in this release:
- Support for xz compression (--xz option)
- Short option -J is reassigned as a shortcut for --xz.
- The option -I is a shortcut for --use-compress-program
- The --no-recursive option works with --incremental.
posted by gray, Fri 26 Dec 2008 11:22:59 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.21 is available for download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar.
New in this version:
- New short option -J, a shortcut for --lzma.
- New option --lzop
- New option --no-auto-compress
Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option.
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posted by gray, Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:33:01 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.20 is available for download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar.
New in this version:
- New option --auto-compress (-a)
With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix of the archive file name.
- New option --lzma ...
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posted by gray, Fri 29 Jun 2007 09:39:40 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.18 was released today as a part of the release of the GNU General Public License version 3. Starting from this release, the package is licensed under the GPLv3.
posted by gray, Fri 08 Jun 2007 10:50:42 AM UTC - 3 replies
GNU tar 1.17 is available from ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors worldwide. New in this release:
- Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode. Previous versions padded sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
- Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental. Version 1.16.1 produced a full dump when both options were given. ...
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posted by gray, Sat 09 Dec 2006 02:15:07 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.16.1 is available from ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors worldwide. It is the first maintenance release in the 1.16 series. The list of noteworthy changes follows:
- New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not be archived. ...
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posted by gray, Sat 21 Oct 2006 05:19:47 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.16 is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar and its mirrors worldwide.
posted by gray, Fri 16 Jun 2006 02:09:33 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar version 1.15.91 is available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar. See announce at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-06/msg00001.html, for the list of new features and bug fixes.
posted by gray, Mon 20 Feb 2006 10:21:02 AM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar version 1.15.90 is available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar. It is an alpha release, fixing the bugs found so far in the previous stable version and introducing a number of new features. See announce at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-02/msg00051.html
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