Download Tar 1.22

Sergey Poznyakoff, one of the developers at the GNU Project, has provided Tar with a new release with version number 1.22. Tar was originally developed to write files in a file archive to sequential devices, such as a tape streamer, while preserving information from the file system. Today it is mainly used in conjunction with compression programs such as gzip and bzip2 to compress files and folders to a file archive. For more information about Tar, we refer you to this page at Wikipedia. The corresponding list of changes looks like this:

Version 1.22:

• Support for xz compression
  Tar uses xz for compression if one of the following conditions is met:
• The option –xz or -J (see below) is used.
• The xz binary is set as compressor using –use-compress-program option.
• The file name of the archive being created ends in `.xz’ and auto-compress option (-a) is used.

Xz is used for decompression if one of the following conditions is met:

• The option –xz or -J is used.
• The xz binary is set as compressor using –use-compress-program option.
• The file is recognized as xz compressed stream data.
• Short option -J reassigned as a short equivalent of –xz
• New option -I
  The -I option is assigned as a short equivalent for –use-compress-program.
• The –no-recursive option works in incremental mode.