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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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