Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU tar 1.19.
GNU tar is available for download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar and the mirror sites worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for the list of those). The available files and their MD5 sums are: d184a969b3c364a89dc70971eac333c0 tar-1.19.cpio.gz df68e53f83ae718e423f1268cdf0bb00 tar-1.19.cpio.gz.sig cfa880511a0b5057b3e0739ba97fa2f3 tar-1.19.shar.gz 477dff26ec3a203b8f0f13a29acfc3f8 tar-1.19.shar.gz.sig bcc2e19b19823b9ab68c94586067a792 tar-1.19.tar.bz2 f31b91b47a6786276a49e46467142da3 tar-1.19.tar.bz2.sig fa22b3092b2c54a3fd3059ebd797c8a2 tar-1.19.tar.gz c983c55819c258e7ed61dbac9d3dc232 tar-1.19.tar.gz.sig For more information on tar, including links to file downloads, please see the tar web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar and the project page http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar. Please email bugs or suggestions to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The list of noteworthy changes follows: * New option --exclude-vcs Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc. * --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options The following options now work with incremental archives as well: --exclude-caches --exclude-caches-all --exclude-tag --exclude-tag-all --exclude-tag-under * Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives. Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records contain file names processed in accordance with the command line settings. * Fix --version output. * Recognition of broken archives. When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes, in reading mode (-x, -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with code 0. Version 1.19 issues the following diagnostic message: 'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2. * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'. * Fix file padding in case of truncation of the input file to zero size. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
