tar-1.33 released [stable]

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

This is to inform you that version 1.33 of GNU tar is available for
download.  Please see the end of this message for a summary of changes
in this release.

Here are the compressed sources:
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.33.tar.gz   (4.2MB)
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.33.tar.bz2  (2.9MB)
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.33.tar.xz   (2.2MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.33.tar.gz.sig
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.33.tar.bz2.sig
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.33.tar.xz.sig

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

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

de0816a6bae5d2a982d9bde76b79b291  tar-1.33.tar.gz
6a2b2a0bfe298ba8402ebbb59e7c563a  tar-1.33.tar.bz2
e536d6621f9ad06df65c177348bb1215  tar-1.33.tar.xz
38780f32d3560a87c27a3b003f61657ee59926fe  tar-1.33.tar.gz
485c8e68aed41cd0424ae16ebef6bb15f864ed14  tar-1.33.tar.bz2
3324ae8282ba549fb8d8dd929ddd4f4e866238ad  tar-1.33.tar.xz

[*] 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-1.33.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 3602B07F55D0C732

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

Noteworthy changes in this release:

* POSIX extended format headers do not include PID by default
    
The intent is to make binary-equivalent PAX archives easy to create.  If
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the POSIX standard default is used, which embeds
the pid.

* --delay-directory-restore works for archives with reversed member ordering

* Fix extraction of a symbolic link hardlinked to another symbolic link

* Wildcards in exclude-vcs-ignore mode don't match slash

* Fix the --no-overwrite-dir option
    
Given this option, previous versions of tar failed to preserve
permissions of empty directories and to create files under directories
owned by the current user that did not have the S_IWUSR bit set.

* Fix handling of chained renames in incremental backups

* Link counting works for file names supplied with -T

* Accept only position-sensitive (file-selection) options in file list files.
    
Using such options as -f, -z, etc. is senseless in a file list file and
bypasses option consistency checks in decode_options.  Therefore, 
only options related to file selection (a.k.a position-sensitive options)
are allowed in file list files.

Best regards,
Sergey