From 72abeec91e77c0d5b7e89d4731b2c7dcbbbbc87a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:21:09 +0100 Subject: Adding upstream version 0.12. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- NEWS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 13719c7..9a6a14d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,15 +1,23 @@ -Changes in version 0.11: +Changes in version 0.12: -An endless loop happening when trying to list or extract from an empty -tar.lz archive has been fixed. +When dumping a character special file or a block special file, the devmajor +and devminor fields were incorrectly filled with the values corresponding to +the device containing the special file instead of the values corresponding +to the special file itself. -Multi-threaded '-c, --create' and '-r, --append' have been implemented. +If when creating an archive tarlz can't find a user or group name in the +database, it now saves just the numerical uid/gid instead of exiting with +error status. -The default compression granularity has been changed to '--bsolid' -(per block compression) instead of '--no-solid' (per file compression). +When listing verbosely a character special file or a block special file, the +devmajor and devminor values are now shown. -The message "Removing leading '' from member names." is now shown -once for each . +The new option '-d, --diff', which reports differences between archive and +file system, has been added. -The new chapter 'Minimum archive sizes required for multi-threaded block -compression' has been added to the manual. +The new option '--ignore-ids', which tells '-d, --diff' to ignore +differences in owner and group IDs, has been added. This option is useful +when comparing an --anonymous archive. + +Listing of large seekable uncompressed archives is now much faster because +tarlz now skips over member data instead of reading it. -- cgit v1.2.3