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+Current Version: 1.11.
+
+User-visible changes since 1.10:
+
+o Many bug fixes
+
+o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
+
+o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
+  will eventually be removed.
+
+o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
+  and causes -C to be ignored.
+
+o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
+  they are added to the archive.
+
+o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
+  the exit status.
+
+o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
+  being read or written.
+
+o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
+  omitted from the archive.
+
+o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
+  end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
+
+o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
+  not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
+
+o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
+  the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
+  around to the beginning.
+
+o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
+  `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
+  then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
+
+o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
+  original values after dumping the file.
+
+o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
+  to dump.
+
+o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
+  modification and access times.
+
+o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
+  precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
+  longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
+  long names to work.
+
+==================
+
+User-visible changes since 1.09:
+
+Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  
+Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
+
+-g is now +incremental
+-G is now +listed-incremental
+
+Sparse files now work correctly.
+
++volume is now called +label.
+
++exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
++exclude used to do.
+
+Exit status is now correct.
+
++totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
+
+When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
+
+New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
+you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
+instead of waiting for a write error.
+
+New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
+people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
+need local modification.  These are what we use to do all our backups
+at the FSF.