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libtar 1.2.11 - 3/2/03
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- updated autoconf macros, compat code, and listhash code
- fixed tar_extract_regfile() to pass mode argument to open()
  (caused EPERM on Solaris NFS clients)
- updated README

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libtar 1.2.10 - 12/15/02
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- updated README
- minor Makefile fixes
- fixed TH_ISREG() macro to not return true for hard links

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libtar 1.2.9 - 11/19/02
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- fixed th_read() to return 1 on EOF
  (thanks to Yves Crespin <Crespin.Quartz@WANADOO.FR> for the bug report)
- minor portability fixes
  (thanks to Yves Crespin <Crespin.Quartz@WANADOO.FR> for the bug report)
- fixed segfault on extracting filenames with 8-bit ASCII characters
  (thanks to Per Liden <per@FUKT.BTH.SE> for the patch)
- fixed TH_ISDIR() macro and th_get_mode() function to handle old
  archives that don't set the typeflag field right for directories
- use 0777 instead of 0755 in mkdirhier()
  (thanks to Yves Crespin <Crespin.Quartz@WANADOO.FR> for the bug report)

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libtar 1.2.8 - 9/13/02
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- added "-I../listhash" to CPPFLAGS in libtar/Makefile.in
  (thanks to Kris Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for the bug report)
- added .PHONY target to Makefile.in
  (thanks to Steven Engelhardt <sengelha@YAHOO.COM> for the bug report)

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libtar 1.2.7 - 9/12/02
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- fixed minor bugs in listhash code
  (thanks to Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> for the bug reports)

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libtar 1.2.6 - 9/10/02
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- updated COPYRIGHT file
- do not check magic field by default
  (replaced TAR_IGNORE_MAGIC option with TAR_CHECK_MAGIC to enable check)
- fixed th_get_mode() not to modify S_IFMT bits if they were already set
- fixed TH_IS*() macros to check the S_IFMT mode bits in addition to typeflag
  (this allows us to handle old tar archives that set mode bits but not
  typeflag field for directories and other special files)
- updated to autoconf-2.53
- restructured autoconf macros
- added "b" to gzoflags in gzopen_frontend() for win32 compatibility
  (thanks to Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for reporting this)
- if O_BINARY is defined (as on win32), set that bit in oflags in tar_open()
  (thanks to Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for reporting this)
- also use O_BINARY in when calling open() from tar_extract_regfile()
  (based on patch from Graeme Peterson <gp@qnx.com>)
- added COMPAT_FUNC_MAKEDEV macro to handle 3-arg version of makedev()
  (based on patch from Graeme Peterson <gp@qnx.com>)

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libtar 1.2.5 - 2/20/02
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- updated to autoconf-2.52
- improved Makefile portability
- fixed memory leak in hard-link detection code
  (thanks to Michael Kamp <kamp@HITT.NL> for the bug report)
- fixed memory leak in symlink handling code
  (thanks to Michael Kamp <kamp@HITT.NL> for the bug report)
- fixed memory leak in GNU long filename code

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libtar 1.2.4 - 7/24/01
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- code cleanups to make gcc -Wall happy
  (thanks to Jim Knoble <jmknoble@POBOX.COM> for the patch)
- call utime() before chmod() in tar_set_file_perms() for cygwin
  (thanks to Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for reporting this)
- added "-g" flag to trigger GNU extensions in libtar binary
- fixed buffer termination bugs in POSIX filename prefix encoding
  (thanks to Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> for reporting this)
- fixed bug in th_crc_calc() for filenames with 8-bit ASCII characters
  (thanks to Hamdouni El Bachir <bach@zehc.net> for reporting the bug
   and Antoniu-George SAVU <santoniu@libertysurf.fr> for the patch)
- fixed backwards conditional expression in th_read()
  (thanks to Antoniu-George SAVU <santoniu@LIBERTYSURF.FR> for the patch)
- added new tar_open() options to replace compile-time settings:
  TAR_IGNORE_EOT, TAR_IGNORE_MAGIC, TAR_CHECK_VERSION, TAR_IGNORE_CRC
  (based on feedback from Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM>)

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libtar 1.2.3 - 6/26/01
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- misc portability fixes for OpenBSD
- fixed libtar.h to work with C++ programs
- fixed tar_extract_file() to properly check for pre-existing symlinks
  (based on patch from Per Lid?n <per@fukt.hk-r.se>)
- fixed hash creation in tar_init()
- replaced mkdirhier() with non-recursive version
- updated autoconf macros, compat code, and listhash code
- reformatted code for readability

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libtar 1.2.2 - 1/12/01
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- fixed th_print_long_ls() to not truncate user and group names
- code cleanups to make -Wall happy

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libtar 1.2.1 - 1/8/01
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- updated WSG_ENCAP autoconf macro
- fixed autoconf macros to behave properly when a config.cache file
  is present
- fixed doc/Makefile.in to create links during compilation, not
  installation
- fixed listhash manpage .so link lists

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libtar 1.2 - 1/4/01
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- minor code cleanups

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libtar 1.1.b8 - 1/2/01
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- updated WSG_ENCAP autoconf macro

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libtar 1.1.b7 - 12/13/00
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- fixed autoconf snprintf() test to make sure it NUL-terminates

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libtar 1.1.b6 - 11/30/00
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- added $(DESTDIR) to Makefiles
- Makefile changes to support WSG_PKG and WSG_ENCAP autoconf macros
- changed lib/output.c to use strftime() where available

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libtar 1.1.b5 - 10/29/00
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- Makefile fix

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libtar 1.1.b4 - 10/29/00
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- more directory reorganization
- minor Makefile cleanups
- minor portability fixes
- added function typecasting to avoid compiler warnings

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libtar 1.1.b3 - 10/26/00
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- updated aclocal.m4
- updated README
- updated manpages
- minor directory structure changes because of CVS setup

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libtar 1.1.b2 - 10/5/00
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- added --without-zlib configure option
- minor portability fixes

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libtar 1.1.b1 - 8/21/00
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- API changes:
  - implemented tar_fdopen()
  - implemented tar_fd()
  - added TAR **t argument to tar_open() instead of returning dynamic memory
  - if TAR_NOOVERWRITE is set in options and O_CREAT is set in oflags,
    tar_open() automatically sets O_EXCL as well

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libtar 1.1.b0 - 7/10/00
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- API changes:
  - replaced internal table of tar file types with a tartype_t passed to
    tar_open() by the caller
    (allows file access methods to be defined dynamically)
  - fixed tar_append_tree() to grok normal files as well as directories
  - replaced mk_dirs_for_file() with mkdirhier() from epkg
  - replaced strtok_r() with strsep()
  - updated list/hash code to new interface

- autoconf changes:
  - added aclocal.m4 to clean up configure.in
  - minor portability fixes related to lib/fnmatch.c

- fixed a bug in tar_open() where the result of open() was being
  checked for 0 instead of -1 to detect error

- updated libtar driver program to handle both .tar.gz and ordinary .tar
  via the -z option