It seems to me we just need to update our release notes. Gary
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 00:00 PeterLee <peter...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a new issue Compress-583 reporting Compress 1.21 generated tars > are not byte-to-byte > same with older versions.And the generated tars are also different in > different OSes in 1.21. > > This is caused by Github PR #97(Compress-404) : the UID/GID is set in Unix > in the constructor of > TarArchiveEntry - but we didn't do it before 1.21.. And please note that > this is the default behavior > of tar(1). > We didn't record this in the change log of 1.21 - and it was my bad. > > IMO this is not a breaking change - there's no API change. Only the > generated tars is changed. But > I agree that this should be documented. > > I want to hear about your ideas. WDYT? > > cheers, > Lee >