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Add NEWS items for changes since 1.34

Paul Eggert 3 years ago
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NEWS

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2021-02-13
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2021-12-12
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>
+
+version TBD
+
+* Fail when building GNU tar, if the platform supports 64-bit time_t
+  but the build uses only 32-bit time_t.
+
+* Leave the devmajor and devminor fields empty (rather than zero) for
+  non-special files, as this is more compatible with traditional tar.
+
+* Bug fixes
+
+** Fix handling of prefix keywords not followed by "." in pax headers.
+
+** Fix handling of out-of-range sparse entries in pax headers.
+
+** Fix handling of --transform='s/s/@/2'.
+
+** Fix treatment of options ending in / in files-from list.
+
+** Fix crash on 'tar --checkpoint-action exec=\"'.
+
+** Fix low-memory crash when reading incremental dumps.
+
 
 version 1.34 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2021-02-13
 
@@ -20,7 +43,7 @@ See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2021-01/msg00026.html
 version 1.33 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2021-01-07
 
 * POSIX extended format headers do not include PID by default
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+
 The intent is to make binary-equivalent PAX archives easy to create.  If
 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the POSIX standard default is used, which embeds
 the pid.
@@ -32,7 +55,7 @@ the pid.
 * Wildcards in exclude-vcs-ignore mode don't match slash
 
 * Fix the --no-overwrite-dir option
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+
 Given this option, previous versions of tar failed to preserve
 permissions of empty directories and to create files under directories
 owned by the current user that did not have the S_IWUSR bit set.
@@ -42,9 +65,9 @@ owned by the current user that did not have the S_IWUSR bit set.
 * Link counting works for file names supplied with -T
 
 * Accept only position-sensitive (file-selection) options in file list files.
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+
 Using such options as -f, -z, etc. is senseless in a file list file and
-bypasses option consistency checks in decode_options.  Therefore, 
+bypasses option consistency checks in decode_options.  Therefore,
 only options related to file selection (a.k.a position-sensitive options)
 are allowed in file list files.