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@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@ -Changes in version 0.13: +Changes in version 0.14: -Skipping of unreadable files during multi-threaded archive creation with -per-file compression has been fixed. Tarlz did produce empty lzip members, -and sometines left the last files out of the archive. +The new option '--exclude', which excludes files matching a shell pattern, +has been added. -Multi-threaded listing of tar.lz archives containing empty lzip members has -been fixed. It listed members out of order and sometimes hung. +The new option '-h, --dereference', which instructs tarlz to follow symbolic +links during archive creation, appending or comparison, has been added. +(The short option name '-h' no longer means '--help'). -When creating an archive, negative modification times are now stored as cero -(1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC). Negative times are not portable. +Concatenation and appending to uncompressed archives and to standard output +have been implemented. + +The new option '--out-slots', setting the number of output packets buffered +per worker thread during multi-threaded creation and appending to compressed +archives, has been added. Increasing the number of packets may increase +compression speed if the files being archived are larger than 64 MiB +compressed, but requires more memory. |