tar-1.13.25: description + notes

This is the GNU version of tar the Unix tape/file archiver.

GNU tar is a much improved version of the standard tar. It supports compression, sparse files, multiple volumes, and much more.

For the full details, see man tar or the Tar home page.

Note: version 1.13.25 is a pre-release version; the official maintainers have not declared it a stable public release. We include it here because it many new features and bug fixes, and seems to be relatively stable.

Note: this build contains a fix for the directory traversal vulnerability described in CAN-2001-1267 and CAN-2002-0399.


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