tar-1.27.1 released [stable]

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

This is to announce the release of GNU tar 1.27.1, a minor release fixing
bugs found in the previous version 1.27.  See the end of this posting
for a list of fixes.

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.tar.gz   (3.6MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.tar.bz2   (2.5MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.tar.xz   (1.8MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.cpio.gz   (3.6MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.shar.gz   (5.3MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.tar.bz2.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.tar.xz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.cpio.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.27.1.shar.gz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

79e59eff05be8d194450d3332522cf03  tar-1.27.1.tar.gz
490e074dd7e71f553df8357a7ef9bdcf  tar-1.27.1.tar.bz2
e0382a4064e09a4943f3adeff1435978  tar-1.27.1.tar.xz
f6297356beaabd245eda0fdbeb167a53  tar-1.27.1.cpio.gz
f8cf46d97fc184fc045ecc80b4acced5  tar-1.27.1.shar.gz
192f480cac95b1fbaff11c87a64f7092045b411b  tar-1.27.1.tar.gz
67aa31d0d497849c05ba5ea6eb41cff130407751  tar-1.27.1.tar.bz2
5ce4233e1774e990b930f3c46990267b28448962  tar-1.27.1.tar.xz
d30231dc8ef2ae5319bec1b8acac16e00af9e6f5  tar-1.27.1.cpio.gz
ed0f4bcc861813fec2188cc863207c6a930f55f6  tar-1.27.1.shar.gz

[*] Use a .sig file 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-1.27.1.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 2.69
  Automake 1.14
  Makeinfo 4.13
  Gnulib v0.0-7433-g33f8233

Bugfixes in this release:

* Fix unquoting of file names obtained via the -T option.
* Fix GNU long link header timestamp (backward compatibility).
* Fix extracting sparse members from star archives.

Regards,
Sergey