GNU tar 1.17 released

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU tar 1.17.

GNU tar is available 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).

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

The MD5 checksums of the files are:

65e568b83caf7aa865144031e7a7c6a8  tar-1.17.tar.gz
c6c4f1c075dbf0f75c29737faa58f290  tar-1.17.tar.bz2
93bccba8c40c073f19e0f40eebabfb8f  tar-1.17.shar.gz

User-visible changes in this release:

* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.  Previous versions padded
  sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
  
* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.  Version 1.16.1 produced
  a full dump when both options were given.

* Fix --occurence.  In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
  even though all requested members has already been extracted.

* Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.

In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform
option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components
option affects hard link targets as well. 

* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
  it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'.

Regards,
Sergey