-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-11-07
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2011-03-12
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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+version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
+
+* Bugfixes
+
+** Fix the --verify option, which broke in version 1.24.
+
+** Fix storing long sparse file names in PAX archives.
+
+** Fix correctness of --atime-preserve=replace
+
+tar --atime-preserve=replace no longer tries to restore atime of
+zero-sized files.
+
+** Work around POSIX incompatibilities on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Tru64
+
+** Fix bug with --one-file-system --listed-incremental
+
+When invoked with these two options, tar 1.25 would add only the
+top-level directory to the archive, but not its contents.
+
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version 1.25 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-11-07
2. The compression program was not explicitly requested in the command
line by the use of such options as -z, -j, etc.
-For example, if `compress' is not available, tar will try `gzip'.
+For example, if `compress' is not available, tar will try `gzip'.
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version 1.24 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-10-24