From 2f15376ba464cf08e710c3353bdacc4f503e11b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:42:07 +0100 Subject: Merging upstream version 0.9. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- NEWS | 26 ++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2dcbb9b..cc2b1db 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,16 @@ -Changes in version 0.8: +Changes in version 0.9: -The new option '--anonymous', equivalent to '--owner=root --group=root', has -been added. +Multi-threaded '-t, --list' has been implemented. See chapter 'Limitations +of parallel tar decoding' in the manual for details. -On extraction and listing, tarlz now removes leading './' strings also from -member names given in the command line. 'tarlz -xf foo ./bar' now extracts -member 'bar' from archive 'foo'. (Reported by Viktor Sergiienko in the -bug-tar mailing list). +The new option '-n, --threads', which sets the number of decompression +threads, has been added. -Tarlz now writes extended headers with all fields zeroed except size, -chksum, typeflag, magic and version. This prevents old tar programs from -extracting the extended records as a file in the wrong place (with a -truncated filename). Tarlz now also sets to zero those fields of the ustar -header overridden by extended records. +Tarlz now recognizes global pax headers, but for now ignores them. -The chapter 'Amendments to pax format', explaining the reasons for the -differences with the pax format, has been added. +Tarlz now decodes numerical fields in headers using length-safe parsers +instead of strtoul to prevent the parser from exceeding the end of the field +if it does not contain a terminating character. + +The new chapter 'Limitations of parallel tar decoding' has been added to the +manual. -- cgit v1.2.3