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Current Version: 1.11.2
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User-visible changes since 1.11.1:
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o Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
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o Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
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o New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
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of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
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compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
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now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
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o Several error messages are cleaned up.
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o Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
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o Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
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for --info-script.
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o Behave better with broken rmt servers.
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o Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
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o Several Makefile cleanups.
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Version 1.11.1
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User-visible changes since 1.11:
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o Many bug fixes
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================
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Version 1.11
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User-visible changes since 1.10:
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o Many bug fixes
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o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
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o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
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will eventually be removed.
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o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
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and causes -C to be ignored.
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o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
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they are added to the archive.
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o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
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the exit status.
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o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
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being read or written.
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o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
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omitted from the archive.
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o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
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end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
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o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
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not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
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o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
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the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
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around to the beginning.
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o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
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`:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
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then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
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o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
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original values after dumping the file.
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o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
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to dump.
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o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
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modification and access times.
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o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
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precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
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longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
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long names to work.
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==================
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Version 1.10:
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User-visible changes since 1.09:
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Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
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Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
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-g is now +incremental
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-G is now +listed-incremental
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Sparse files now work correctly.
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+volume is now called +label.
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+exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
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+exclude used to do.
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Exit status is now correct.
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+totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
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When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
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New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
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you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
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instead of waiting for a write error.
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New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
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people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
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need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
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at the FSF.
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