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version 1.16.1
* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not
be archived.
* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded
directory contents only, while the directories themselves were
still added to the archive.
* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.
Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see
<http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-11/0344.html>.
We don't expect that any tar archives in practical use have type 'N'
records, but if you have one and you trust its contents, you can
decode it with GNU tar 1.16 or earlier.
* Race conditions have been fixed that in some cases briefly allowed
files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
