Hello, This is to announce the release of GNU tar 1.30. Please see below for a list of noteworthy changes.
Here are the compressed sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.30.tar.gz (4.0MB) http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.30.tar.bz2 (2.8MB) http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.30.tar.xz (2.1MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.30.tar.gz.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.30.tar.bz2.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.30.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: e0c5ed59e4dd33d765d6c90caadd3c73 tar-1.30.tar.gz 8404e4c1fc5a3000228ab2b8ad674a65 tar-1.30.tar.bz2 2d01c6cd1387be98f57a0ec4e6e35826 tar-1.30.tar.xz 4f83a5e9ab6a93ea7ff5fe9a7b0f17763c4f3dca tar-1.30.tar.gz f56e89603eca86c3571f3cb40a34057ecd1e1086 tar-1.30.tar.bz2 0d442c4565f8131745a5dff1cd08f7eaa797f679 tar-1.30.tar.xz [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify tar-1.30.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 3602B07F55D0C732 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.14 Makeinfo 6.5 Gnulib v0.1-1693-g91e8348 Noteworthy changes in this release: * Member names containing '..' components are now skipped when extracting. This fixes tar's behavior to match its documentation, and is a bit safer when extracting untrusted archives over old files (an unsafe practice that the tar manual has long recommended against). * Report erroneous use of position-sensitive options. During archive creation or update, tar keeps track of positional options (see the manual, subsection 3.4.4 "Position-Sensitive Options"), and reports those that had no effect. For example, when invoked as tar -cf a.tar . --exclude '*.o' tar will create the archive, but will exit with status 2, having issued the following error message tar: The following options were used after non-optional arguments in archive create or update mode. These options are positional and affect only arguments that follow them. Please, rearrange them properly. tar: --exclude '*.o' has no effect tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors * --numeric-owner now affects private headers too. This helps the output of 'tar' to be more deterministic. * Fixed the --delay-directory-restore option In some cases tar would restore the directory permissions too early, causing subsequent link extractions in that directory to fail. * The --warnings=failed-read option This new warning control option suppresses warning messages about unreadable files and directories. It has effect only if used together with the --ignore-failed-read option. * The --warnings=none option now suppresses all warnings This includes warnings about unreadable files produced when --ignore-failed-read is in effect. To output these, use --warnings=none --warnings=no-failed-read. * Fix reporting of hardlink mismatches during compare Tar reported incorrect target file name in the 'Not linked to' diagnostic message. Regards, Sergey
