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9 version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased)
13 * Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in command line.
14 The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
15 including another -T option.
16 Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C
17 as option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name
18 starts with - is handled as option. To insert file names starting with
19 dash, use --add-file option.
21 * List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
22 automatically. It is not necessary to give --null option.
24 * New option --no-unquote disables unquoting input file names. This
25 is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
26 An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
30 ** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options.
31 ** When extracting or listing archives in old GNU format, tar
32 used to read an extra block of data after a long name header
33 if length of the member name was divisible by block size (512).
34 Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member
35 was not processed correctly.
36 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
38 ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
41 version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
43 This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused
44 tar to refuse to extract files from standard input.
47 version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
49 * Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer
50 necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can
51 now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
53 * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
54 prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
57 With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
58 incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
59 would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
60 back up. This change fixes the bug.
62 * Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
65 * Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports
68 * Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
69 or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
71 * `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
72 the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
74 * New option --exclude-caches instructs tar to exclude cache directories
75 automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those
76 containing a standardized tag file, as specified at:
78 http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
80 * New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to
81 the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
82 introduced in version 1.14
84 * New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory
85 where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying
86 --libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it
87 also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if
88 --enable-backup-scripts was given).
91 ** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
92 ** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
93 ** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
94 Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
95 ** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
96 previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
97 were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
98 lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
99 extracted copy in such cases.
100 ** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option (which
101 didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect).
102 ** Fixed verification of created archives.
103 ** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous
104 versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
105 ** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous
106 versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes.
109 version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11
111 * Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
112 * New option --format allows to select the output archive format
113 * The default output format can be selected at configuration time
114 by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
115 Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
116 * New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
117 path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
119 * New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir
120 option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
121 the previous default behavior.
123 * The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
124 does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
125 with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
126 --old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed
129 * New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped
130 for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
131 The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
132 with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
133 the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
135 * New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of
136 the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
137 files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
138 option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named
139 file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename'
140 extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
141 and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
143 * New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX
144 keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax'
147 * --incremental and --listed-incremental options work correctly on
148 individual files, as well as on directories.
150 * New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore.
151 The scripts are compiled and installed if --enable-backup-scripts
152 option is given to configure.
154 * By default tar searches "rmt" utility in "$prefix/libexec/rmt",
155 which is consistent with the location where the version of "rmt"
156 included in the package is installed. Previous versions of tar
157 used "/etc/rmt". To install "rmt" to its traditional location,
158 run configure with option --libexecdir=/etc. Otherwise, if you
159 already have rmt installed and wish to use it, instead of the
160 shipped in version, set the variable DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND to
161 the full path name of the utility, e.g. ./configure
162 DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt.
164 Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to
165 use can be set at runtime, by giving option --rmt-command to
168 * Removed obsolete command line options:
169 ** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
170 ** --block-compress is not needed any longer
171 ** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor
172 ** --modification-time superseded by --touch
173 ** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records
174 ** --record-number superseded by --block-number
175 ** --version-control superseded by --backup
177 * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
178 hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
179 (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
180 The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
185 version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
190 version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22
192 * New option --overwrite-dir.
193 * Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
194 * The message translations for Korean are available again.
197 version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13
199 * Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes.
202 version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29
207 version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28
209 * Porting and copyright notice fixes.
212 version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27
214 * Some bugs were fixed:
216 - hard links to symbolic links
218 * New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion.
220 * New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards,
221 --wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored).
222 Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how
223 exclude patterns are interpreted.
225 * The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored
226 --no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash.
227 This is a quiet change to the semantics of --exclude. The previous
228 semantics were a failed attempt at backward compatibility but it
229 became clear that the semantics were puzzling and did not satisfy
230 everybody. Rather than continue to try to revive that dead horse we
231 thought it better to substitute cleaner semantics, with options so
232 that you can change the behavior more to your liking.
234 * New message translations for Indonesian and Turkish.
235 The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
236 It will be reissued once those are fixed.
239 version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
241 * The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
242 Eventually it is planned to be reintroduced, with the same meaning as -T.
244 * With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken
245 to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date.
248 version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
250 * Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
251 files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe
252 option like --absolute-names or --overwrite.
254 * The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
255 and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
257 * The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
259 * The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options.
261 * The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
263 * The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly.
265 * Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS.
266 The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old.
268 * New language supported: da.
270 * Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported.
271 If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead.
273 * This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later.
274 Please see <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.
276 * `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
279 version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
281 * `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
282 * Diagnostic messages have been made more regular and consistent.
285 version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
287 * By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
288 extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file
289 before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the
290 link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one
291 exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are
292 their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some
293 longstanding security problems.
295 The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
297 For regular files, tar implements this change by using the O_EXCL
298 option of `open' to ensure that it creates the file; if this fails, it
299 removes the file and tries again. This is similar to the behavior of
300 the --unlink-first option, but it is faster in the common case of
301 extracting a new directory.
303 * By default, tar now ignores file names containing a component of `..'
304 when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
305 To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
307 * Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
308 correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
310 * The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
311 that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
312 locale when restoring a backup. This is needed for proper support
313 of multibyte characters. Old-format files can still be read, and
314 older versions of GNU tar can read new-format files, unless member
315 names have multibyte chars.
317 * Many diagnostics have been changed slightly, so that file names are
318 now output unambiguously. File names in diagnostics now are either
319 `quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
320 colon, newline, or space, depending on context. Unprintable
321 characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
322 Terminating characters (e.g. close-quote, colon, newline)
323 are also escaped as needed.
325 * tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
326 Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
329 version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
331 * If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.
332 Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors.
335 version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
337 * New translations ja, pt_BR.
338 * New options --help and --version for rmt.
339 * Ignore Solaris door files when creating an archive.
342 version 1.13.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-10-11.
344 * Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings.
345 * `tar --version' output conforms to the latest GNU coding standards.
346 * If you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1.
347 * `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
350 version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
352 * `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
354 * New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
356 * --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value.
358 * `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header
359 values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8
360 format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time
361 stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar
362 archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of
363 GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old
364 behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values,
365 and which rejects large files.
367 * On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in
368 the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T -
369 2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit
370 time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning.
372 * `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering
373 that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract
374 as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage.
376 * A read error now causes a nonzero exit status, not just a warning.
378 * Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
381 version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
383 * The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
384 for compatibility with paxutils.
386 * -T /dev/null now matches nothing; previously, it matched anything
387 if no explicit operands were given.
389 * The `--' option now works the same as with other GNU utilities;
390 it causes later operands to be interpreted as file names, not options,
391 even if they begin with `-'.
393 * For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone
394 abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice.
395 Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are
396 not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use
397 numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
398 `EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
401 version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
403 * `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
404 out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This
405 change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.]
408 version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.
410 * `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one.
411 POSIX.1 requires this, and some other `tar' implementations check for it.
413 * `tar' no longer silently accepts a block containing nonzero checksum bytes
416 * `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a
417 numeric header field.
420 version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16.
422 * For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories
423 created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of
424 the original file or directory.
427 version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14.
429 * --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options.
431 * When creating an archive, leading `./' is no longer stripped,
432 to match traditional tar's behavior (and simplify the documentation).
434 * --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names.
437 version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
439 * An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
440 initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to
441 exclude a file if it matches any file name component.
443 * The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
444 Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
445 The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
446 when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
447 The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
448 for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
450 * When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64
451 for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal.
452 This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes),
453 larger uids, negative time stamps, etc.
455 * When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
456 uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
457 and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody".
459 * tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic.
461 * New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
464 version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
466 * Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
469 version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
471 * Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
472 this matches historical practice.
475 version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
477 * A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
478 excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
479 Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
482 version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
484 * Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
487 version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
491 version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
493 * Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
494 Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
495 * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
496 * This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
497 with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
498 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/
499 The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
500 at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
501 * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
502 but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
503 Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
505 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
508 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
509 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
512 * Offer internationalization capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
513 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
514 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
515 * More normalization and cleanup in error messages.
518 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
519 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
520 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
521 * Recognize creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
522 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
523 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
526 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
527 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
528 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
529 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
530 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
531 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
532 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
533 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
534 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
537 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
538 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
539 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
540 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
541 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
542 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
543 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
544 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
546 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
548 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
550 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
551 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
552 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
553 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
554 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
556 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
558 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
560 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
561 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
562 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
565 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
567 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
569 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
570 of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
571 compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
572 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
574 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
576 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
578 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
581 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
583 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
585 * Several Makefile cleanups.
587 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
591 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
592 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
593 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
594 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
595 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
599 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
601 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
602 for it will eventually be removed.
604 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
605 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
607 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
608 after they are added to the archive.
610 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
613 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
614 is being read or written.
616 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
617 omitted from the archive.
619 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
620 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
622 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
623 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
625 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
626 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
627 around to the beginning.
629 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
630 `:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
631 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
633 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
634 their original values after dumping the file.
636 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
639 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
640 modification and access times.
642 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
643 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
644 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
647 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
649 * Filename to -G is optional. -C works right. Names +newer and
650 +newer-mtime work right.
652 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
654 * Sparse files now work correctly.
656 * +volume is now called +label.
658 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
659 what +exclude used to do.
661 * Exit status is now correct.
663 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
665 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
667 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
668 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
669 point instead of waiting for a write error.
671 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
672 to people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
673 shouldn't need local modification. These are what we use to do
674 all our backups at the FSF.
676 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
677 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
678 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
680 * See ChangeLog for more details.
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