GNU tar - News
posted by gray, Sat 12 Mar 2011 11:20:41 AM UTC - 0 replies
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
posted by gray, Sun 07 Nov 2010 04:42:29 PM UTC - 0 replies
Tar 1.25 is available for download. This is mainly a bug-fix release addressing the bugs found in the previous version 1.24:
- Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect.
- Fix extraction of device nodes.
- Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation. ...
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posted by gray, Sun 24 Oct 2010 10:56:57 PM UTC - 0 replies
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. ...
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posted by gray, Wed 10 Mar 2010 12:48:32 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.23 is available for download. Main changes in this release:
- Improved record size autodetection
- Use of lseek on seekable archives
- New command line option --warning
- New command line option --level
- Improved behavior in case when some files were removed during incremental dumps ...
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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 - 2 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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