GNU tar 1.8 released (GPLv3)

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Greetings,

As part of the releasing of version 3 of the GNU General Public
License, GNU tar has been upgraded to the new license.  The new
release, tar v. 1.18, is available for downloading 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).

The available files and their MD5 sums are:

62f537dd1fed34f888173191f4e3dd4b  tar-1.18.cpio.gz
7be5cf1d255bd51907138721d694d7f7  tar-1.18.shar.gz
70170208d7c1bb9ab40120579434b6a3  tar-1.18.tar.bz2
ab7fb052e4d1c941557db0a15593abb4  tar-1.18.tar.gz

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>.

The list of noteworthy changes follows:

* Licensed under the GPLv3.

* Fixed several bugs in the testsuite.

Regards,
Sergey