* important changes in version 1.36 16/9/2007:
-   Portability fixes for VMS, as offered by Craig Berry.

* important changes in version 1.34 15/8/2007:
-   Address #28687: Fwd: Unespected reaction of Archive::Tar
    A::T didn't always handle filenames that evaluated to false 
    (like '0') gracefully. This patch adds a few 'or defined' check 
    to the A::T codebase and a test to ensure filenames like '0' are 
    handeled correctly.
-   Apply #28407: Unicode and Archive::Tar - documentation patch as
	FAQ patch

* important changes in version 1.32 25/7/2007:
-   Apply #28407: Unicode and Archive::Tar - documentation patch as
    FAQ patch
-   Following a report from rgs that A::T 1.31 doesn't play nicely
    with -Dmksymlinks under perl core, rewrite the symlink logic in
    A::T::File->new to continue building an object when reading a 
    symlink fails, rather than refusing to read on a symlink (which 
    is obviously wrong)
-   Quell warnings when a gid is not resolvable to a group name

* important changes in version 1.31 18/5/2007:
-   No longer use the t/setup.t and t/cleanup.t files but just bundle 
    the binary files; this was done for core integration, but the new 
    uupacktool.pl script means we dont have to do this anymore
_   Apply core perl Change 30997 by rgs@stcosmo on 2007/04/20 15:03:57
-   Address: #27124: Unneeded warning sent when checking for file
    inclusion contains_file() will no longer warn to STDERR when a file 
    is not contained in an archive and $WARN is set to 'true'.
-   Address #26492: Dangling symlinks not preserved: Archive::Tar used 
    to complain about dangling symlinks, unlike standard gnu tar, which 
    would add them silently. This patch brings A::T's behaviour in line 
    with gnu tar
-   Minor pod fixes

* important changes in version 1.30 8/2/2006:
-   applied bleadperl patch: Subject: Change 27416: 
    Cleanup Archive-Tar temporary test files
-   address #17985: INSTALLDIRS needs to be 'perl' for >= perl-5.9.3
-   address #18296: Archive::Tar 1.29 PATCH for VMS to fix test case 
    failure in 99_pod.t
    (it's actually a File::Find bug, but this patch works around that)
-   address: #18720 ([PATCH] Archive::Tar creates POSIX style tar files
    unnecessarily and by default, leading to compatibility problems 
    particularly with WinZip.)
    patch rejected, docpatch added with FAQ and SEE ALSO
-   apply performance patch from #20399 to enable the user to
    avoid repeated calls to cwd() if desired.

* important changes in version 1.29 3/1/2006:
-   integrate bleadperl patches to generate the source files for
    testing, rather than bundling them
-   make extract* methods accept a::t::file objects too    
-   address #17624: Unnecessary calls to cwd() -- cwd() is only
    called when needed
-   address #17935: Archive::Tar::write('file_name') should close 
    or return file handle. -- filehandles are now closed
-   address #17395: [PATCH] allow extract() to select files by 
    regexes or substrings; patch did not get integrated, but a FAQ
    on how to achieve this was added to the FAQ section
-   address #17310 (Archive-Tar 1.26_01 not tolerant to Archives 
    with Garbage) -- Garbage protection should be much improved now   

* important changes in version 1.28 19/1/2006:
-   add pod to ptar and ptardiff so they have manpages generated
-   integrate change 25333 by rgs@oregon on 2005/08/27 16:28:27
    which fixes a failure in Archive::Tar tests when perl is built
    with -Dmksymlinks
-   integrate Change 26870 by craigb@craigb-brianor on 
    2006/01/17 04:03:01 holding vms specific patches
-   mention 'full_name' as property type to list_archive
-   address #14922 -- unable to reproduce, but add a test
    case to make sure the issue doesn't occur
-   apply the docpatch provided by:
    #15935: File type constants are not documented
-   document our lack of support for stringified archives and
    compressed archives opened to a non-io-zlib fh
-   1.27 was skipped due to PAUSE issues
    
* important changes in version 1.26 22/8/2005:
-   the 'ptardiff' was not included in the exe_files section
    of the makefile.pl, meaning it didn't get instaleld by default.

* important changes in version 1.25 20/8/2005:
-   Move the changes into it's own file
-   Add patch from abeltje to make tests pass on VMS. This is *just*
    the tests -- code may need some extra work to be reliable  (#12678)
-   Add faq about accessing 'tar.Z' files, as provided by Paul Marquess
-   Add a warning if the read() call from new() fails to return data
-   Address #13636, where heuristics were 'upgrading' a file to a
    directory if the file had an @LongLink entry, and the shortened
    filename ended in a '/'.
-   Add ptardiff program as suggested by KWILLIAMS (#13658)

* important changes in version 1.24 3/5/2005:
-   Fix a bug where alternate absolute extract paths would add an
    extra directory upon extract (bug #11342)
-   Added support for 'perlio' (available for perl5.8 and up).
    See the Archive::Tar documentation for details

* important changes in version 1.23 3/12/2004:
-   03_file.t wasn't present in the MANIFEST

* important changes in version 1.22 21/11/2004:

This release holds only bugfixes.
-   Make list_files() also return full_path() rather than name(),
    as that would ignore the prefix field. This was found to break
    PPM (bug #8537)

* important changes in version 1.21 9/11/2004:

This release holds only bugfixes.
-   Make the size of symlinks be 0 in tar headers, so the next entry
    is not interpreted as contents of the symlink (bug #7937)
-   Strip high bits from the mode of the file, as they are stored 
    differently in the tar header
-   Make Archive::Tar be kinder to archives that contain garbage,
    proceeding anyway as long as that's possible.

* important changes in version 1.20 8/11/2004:

This release holds mostly bugfixes, in the form of a rewrite of 
the handling of the 'prefix' header field.
-   Rewrote 02_methods.t to be more independant
-   Rewrote the way 'prefix' headers are dealt with
-   Require IO::String now to do archive stringification
-   Add new method 'full_path' to A::T::Item objects
    - this is used to fix bug 6938
-   A::T->new now accepts both a class and an object to be friendlier
    to users
-   On tar read errors, binary chunks are no longer dumped to STDOUT,
    but instead the error offset is reported

* important changes in version 1.09 22/5/2004:

This release holds some bugfixes and also the return of bin/ptar
-   Make new() comply with the documentation and return undef on
    a read() failure.
-   Re-adds bin/ptar, which disappeared from this distribution after
    0.22 (sorry about that).
-   Makes 'IO::Zlib' a default prerequisite. You can still disable 
    this by supplying the -n option to 'perl Makefile.PL'.    

* important changes in version 1.08 5/1/2004:

This release holds some bugfixes and extra tests over the 1.07 release:
-   Fix a file renaming bug that forgot to carry over path info
-   Fix a bug where adding dirs on win32 gave 'permission denied'
-   Fix some documentation typos
-   Add extra tests explicilty for Archive::Tar::File
-   Move completely from FileHandle to IO::File

* important changes in version 1.07 17/10/2003:

This release holds some bugfixes over the 1.06 release:
-   Quell some annoying warnings about binmode on unopened filehandles
-   Add tests for binary files included in a tarball

* important changes in version 1.06 15/10/2003:

This release holds some bugfixes and new features over the 1.05 release.
-   The chown() code somehow didn't make it into the 1.05 release
-   Patch _get_handle() to treat all IO::File handles as binary.
    This should make win32 users happy
    
New feature added:
-   A method called 'contains_file' that will tell you if a certain file
    is already in the archive.    

* important changes in version 1.05 23/8/2003:

This release holds some bugfixes and new features over the 1.04 release.
-   The Test::Harness that came with perl 5.6.0 was buggy, require
    a higher version in the Makefile.PL
-   Add a global variable $CHOWN that controls whether Archive::Tar
    should attempt to chown() files or not when it can.    

* important changes in version 1.04 27/7/2003:

This release hold a bugfix over the 1.03 release:
-   NULL-byte padding was done also on files that had no real content,
    like symlinks, thus ending up with a number of bytes not dividable
    by 512.

* important changes in version 1.03 26/6/2003:

This release holds some bugfixes over the 1.02 release, mainly these:
-   Always do a readlink on the full path, never just the file
-   Make Archive::Tar write proper headers when dealing with symlinks
    For this $Archive::Tar::FOLLOW_SYMLINKS is introduced

* important changes in version 1.02 12/6/2003:

This release holds some bugfixes over the 1.01 release, mainly these:
-   Silly thinko fix in File.pm
-   Quell some warnings if files are empty
-   The cache of previously added files was not being emptied

Also, some new features are added:

-   Archive::Tar::File objects now have a C<has_content> method.

* important changes in version 1.01 5/6/2003:

This release holds some bugfixes over the 1.00 release, mainly these:

-   Silence some warnings when writing directories to disk.
-   A { } inside a map was interpreted as a block rather than a hashref 
    constructor -- now fixed.
-   Fix write() to work again as advertised when passed no arguments.
-   This also means glob support to write is now definitely not
    available.
-   Silly thinko of where splitpath() instead of splitdir() was used.

Some new features/changes:

-   Add a new method 'has_content' to Archive::Tar::File.
-   Cygwin's tests will now also use the 'short' files, since cygwin
    is built on top of an Win32 filesystem.

* important changes in version 1.00 31/5/2003:

This release marks the new development track as 'stable'. Version got
upped to '1.00'. Not many changes, merely lots of successful test 
reports constitute this version. However, a tiny fix regarding the
reserved string 'VERSION' has been applied, as well as a few more FAQ
entries have been added.

* important changes in version 0.99_06 5/5/2003:

This release only entails a bug fix on 0.99_05 -- C<extract_archive>
was dealing wrongly with special files such as hardlinks etc. This
is now fixed.

* important changes in version 0.99_05 30/4/2003:

Apparently windows has some issues with long path names.
This version introduces an adapted test suite for Win32 machines.

* important changes in version 0.99_04 28/4/2003:

Make Archive::Tar work happily on perl 5.005_03

* important changes in version 0.99_03 28/4/2003:

This release only has bug fixes on 0.99_02.

Fixed handling of long file names when extracting with 
C<extract_archive>

Fixed handling of prefixes in tar headers that contain regex meta-
characters.

Fixed a few spurious warnings about comparing non-numbers.

Expanded the test cases accordingly.


* important changes in version 0.99_02 26/3/2003:

Added options to be passed to read, namely:
	- extract (to extract while reading)
	- limit (to limit the amount of files read from the archive)

Implemented the '././@LongLink' support, which is GNU's way of
dealing with filenames that are longer than 255 chars.

Added a global variable $WARN which controls whether warnings get
printed or just stored.

Fixed a few small bugs that considered files named '0' or '' to not
really be files and refuse to package them.

* important changes in version 0.99_01 16/3/2003:

Total rewrite from the ground up. Removed as many as the nasty 
bits (no pun intended) as possible and tucked them away. 
No code from the old distribution remains.

Cleaned up the API, introduced clean error handling and just 
generally removed a lot of cruft.

Note that Archive::Tar now requires perl version 5.005_03 or higher 
to run.

Introduced 2 new submodules:
Archive::Tar::Constant
    Simply holds all constants, like block length, tar headers etc
    
Archive::Tar::File
    Object class for all files in a tar archive, to make for easier
    manipulataion of the archive in-memory.
    See perldoc Archive::Tar::File after installation.

Added a few features:
write() now takes an optional 3rd paramater (prefix) which will allow
you to tuck away all files in that sub directory.

rename() is introduced, allowing for easy renaming of files in the
archive.

get_files() returns a file of all Archive::Tar::File objects in the
current read-in archive.

* important changes in version 0.23, 21/1/2003:

Bundled 0.072 and 0.22 to be able to work on Win32 and non-Win32
platforms. Since the previous version is almost 3 years old, bundling
seemed like the quickest way to get a working solution again.

Archive::Tar now transparently Does The Right Thing depending what
platform you are on -- Win32 users, read the Archive::Tar::Win32
documentation!

I also suppose this makes me the new maintainer...

* important changes in version 0.20:

New class methods create_archive, extract_archive & list_archive.

Archive::Tar no longer keeps the entire archive in memory after
reading it.  This results in a major reduction in memory consumption.

Added suport for character & block special files.  These files are
currently created using mknod, so they will only be available on UNIX
platforms.

See the file ChangeLog for more complete details.

* important changes for version 0.08

Fixed (again) the MacOS support and included alpha support for
block/character special files as well as improving symlink handling.

NOTE: Archive::Tar is undergoing major work to extend the interface
and lower memory consumpton.  Any changes to the existing interface
should be extensions only.

* important changes for version 0.072.

Fixes a problem with systems that don't like open files being deleted.
It also has an explicit copyright notice so folks like Debian can
redistribute it in peace, and an new custodial maintainer due to
Calle's suffering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Get better soon, Calle!

* important changes for version 0.071

It fixes a bunch of bugs, implements POSIX-style long pathnames and
adds a couple of useful methods.  It has also been verified to work on
Win32.

This version also includes a small tar-lookalike program, ptar. There
is no documentation beyond a usage message, but if you've ever used at
Unix-style tar program it should be very familiar.
