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 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
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+version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
+
+* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite existing files when
+  extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes them before
+  extracting.  There is one exception: existing nonempty directories
+  are not removed, nor are their ownerships or permissions extracted.
+  This fixes some longstanding security problems.
+
+  The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
+
+  For regular files, tar implements this change by using the O_EXCL
+  option of `open' to ensure that it creates the file; if this fails, it
+  removes the file and tries again.  This is similar to the behavior of
+  the --unlink-first option, but it is faster in the common case of
+  extracting a new directory.
+
+* By default, tar now ignores file names containing a component of `..'
+  when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
+  To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
+
+* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
+  correctly.  It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes.
+
+* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
+  that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
+  locale when restoring a backup.  This is needed for proper support
+  of multibyte characters.  Old-format files can still be read, and
+  older versions of GNU tar can read new-format files, unless member
+  names have multibyte chars.
+
+* Many diagnostics have been changed slightly, so that file names are
+  now output unambiguously.  File names in diagnostics now are either
+  `quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
+  colon, newline, or space, depending on context.  Unprintable
+  characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
+  Terminating characters (e.g. close-quote, colon, newline)
+  are also escaped as needed.
+
+* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
+  Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
+
 version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
 
 * If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.