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Tar 1.23
Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Wed 10 Mar 2010 12:48:32 PM UTC.
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
- Modification times of PAX extended headers
- Time references in the --pax-option argument
- Augmented environment of the --to-command script
- Bugfixes:
- Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform
- Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files
- Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug 508199)
- Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories
- The --remove-files option removes files only if they were succesfully stored in the archive
- Fix storing and listing of the volume labels in POSIX format
- Improve algorithm for splitting long file names (ustar format)
- Fix possible memory overflow in the rmt client code (CVE-2010-0624)
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