From ecd700fbfb6c4d04fd67f4fdf9944ff6377ff064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 16:04:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Version 1.25 * configure.ac: Version 1.25 * NEWS: Describe the changes. --- NEWS | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- configure.ac | 2 +- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 66d9c880..8244bad1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,34 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-10-24 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-11-07 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org> + +version 1.25 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-11-07 + +* Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect. +* Fix extraction of device nodes. +* Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation. + +Tar 1.24 changed the ordering of name matching and name transformation +so that the former saw already transformed file names. This made it +impossible to match file names in certain cases. It is fixed now. + +* Fix the behavior of tar -x --overwrite on hosts lacking O_NOFOLLOW. + +* Improve the testsuite. + +* Alternative decompression programs. + +If extraction from a compressed archive fails because the corresponding +compression program is not installed and the following two conditions +are met, tar retries extraction using an alternative decompressor: + + 1. Another compression program supported by tar is able to handle this + compression format. + 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'. + version 1.24 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-10-24 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 1de1ed3b..d112474f 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301, USA. -AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.24], [bug-tar@gnu.org]) +AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.25], [bug-tar@gnu.org]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/tar.c]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux]) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) -- GitLab