Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU tar 1.20.
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: 832874d7eea94bfe434c48459cbfda89 tar-1.20.cpio.gz 8c6ea0c387ce06f5c8411bce9977641c tar-1.20.cpio.gz.sig bf7f6fef042fd453d6465d13eff711a3 tar-1.20.shar.gz a6724395dd1f341e6bf00486fdedcbdf tar-1.20.shar.gz.sig 1a7e17f27abf583b3b0bc059a827e68b tar-1.20.tar.bz2 1e356998c0ec0b1e914ce59b367e0b43 tar-1.20.tar.bz2.sig c1a4ff43157ac60dd4b96dab09a3197c tar-1.20.tar.gz 0c5eaacc1805750d2701bda133c6f654 tar-1.20.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]>. List of user-visible changes follows: * New option --auto-compress (-a) With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix of the archive file name. * New option --lzma Selects LZMA compression algorithm * New option --hard-dereference During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1'). * New option --checkpoint-action This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default), echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value. Any number of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of their appearance in the command line. See chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description. * New options --no-check-device, --check-device. The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during preparatory stage of an incremental dump. This allows to avoid creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an LVM snapshot). The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers. This is the default. This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous `--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS environment variable. * The --transform option. Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line. The specified transformations will be applied in turn. The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed'). Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets during both creation and extraction. Tar 1.19 used them only during extraction. For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member Names". * Info (end-of-volume) scripts The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR. * Bugfixes. ** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing archives. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
