GNU tar - News
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:
- Fix extraction over pipe (bug #60002)
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.
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
- Fix possible NULL dereference (bug #55369)
- Improve the testsuite
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
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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
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
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