[Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.22

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU tar version 1.22. 

GNU tar is available for download from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar and the mirror sites worldwide (see
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for the list of those).

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.gz    (2.9MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.bz2   (2.1MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.shar.gz   (4.4MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.cpio.gz   (2.9MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.bz2.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.shar.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.cpio.gz.sig

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact.  First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify tar-1.22.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 55D0C732

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.61
  Automake 1.10.1
  Gnulib-tool 0.0.1745-665a-modified

For more information on tar, including links to file downloads,
please see the tar web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar
and the project page http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar.

Please email bugs or suggestions to <address@hidden>.

Changes in this release:

* Support for xz compression

Tar uses xz for compression if one of the following conditions is met: 

 1. The option --xz or -J (see below) is used.
 2. The xz binary is set as compressor using --use-compress-program option.
 3. The file name of the archive being created ends in `.xz' and
 auto-compress option (-a) is used.

Xz is used for decompression if one of the following conditions is met: 

 1. The option --xz or -J is used.
 2. The xz binary is set as compressor using --use-compress-program option.
 3. The file is recognized as xz compressed stream data.

* Short option -J reassigned as a short equivalent of --xz

* New option -I

The -I option is assigned as a short equivalent for
--use-compress-program.

* The --no-recursive option works in incremental mode.

Regards,
Sergey