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new 3449298 COMPRESS-124 record changes and credit @PeterAlfredLee
3449298 is described below
commit 3449298549c1f59bebb262b476fe42170010cb48
Author: Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 1 18:27:01 2020 +0100
COMPRESS-124 record changes and credit @PeterAlfredLee
---
src/changes/changes.xml | 4 ++++
src/site/xdoc/index.xml | 1 +
src/site/xdoc/limitations.xml | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index a4a3728..01cbada 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
due-to="Peter Alfred Lee">
Added support for split ZIP archives.
</action>
+ <action issue="COMPRESS-124" type="update" date="2020-01-01"
+ due-to="Peter Alfred Lee">
+ Added support for reading sparse entries to the TAR package.
+ </action>
</release>
<release version="1.19" date="2019-08-27"
description="Release 1.19
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index 9a7cddf..ed11dcf 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
<li><code>SevenZFile</code> now supports random
access.</li>
<li>The zip package now supports split archives.</li>
+ <li>The tar package now supports reading sparse entries.</li>
</ul>
</subsection>
</section>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/limitations.xml b/src/site/xdoc/limitations.xml
index 4c8f6d4..a458dcf 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/limitations.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/limitations.xml
@@ -169,7 +169,9 @@
</section>
<section name="TAR">
<ul>
- <li>sparse files can neither be read nor written</li>
+ <li>sparse files could not be read in version prior to
+ Compress 1.20</li>
+ <li>sparse files can not be written</li>
<li>only a subset of the GNU and POSIX extensions are
supported</li>
<li>In Compress 1.6 <code>TarArchiveInputStream</code> could
