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Changelog

6.0

  • Drop support for node 6 and 8
  • fix symlinks and hardlinks on windows being packed with \-style path targets

5.0

  • Address unpack race conditions using path reservations
  • Change large-numbers errors from TypeError to Error
  • Add TAR_* error codes
  • Raise TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE warning/error when there are no valid entries found in an archive
  • do not treat ignored entries as an invalid archive
  • drop support for node v4
  • unpack: conditionally use a file mapping to write files on Windows
  • Set more portable 'mode' value in portable mode
  • Set portable gzip option in portable mode

4.4

  • Add 'mtime' option to tar creation to force mtime
  • unpack: only reuse file fs entries if nlink = 1
  • unpack: rename before unlinking files on Windows
  • Fix encoding/decoding of base-256 numbers
  • Use stat instead of lstat when checking CWD
  • Always provide a callback to fs.close()

4.3

  • Add 'transform' unpack option

4.2

  • Fail when zlib fails

4.1

  • Add noMtime flag for tar creation

4.0

  • unpack: raise error if cwd is missing or not a dir
  • pack: don't drop dots from dotfiles when prefixing

3.1

  • Support @file.tar as an entry argument to copy entries from one tar file to another.
  • Add noPax option
  • noResume option for tar.t
  • win32: convert >|<?: chars to windows-friendly form
  • Exclude mtime for dirs in portable mode

3.0

  • Minipass-based implementation
  • Entirely new API surface, tar.c(), tar.x() etc., much closer to system tar semantics
  • Massive performance improvement
  • Require node 4.x and higher

0.x, 1.x, 2.x - 2011-2014

  • fstream-based implementation
  • slow and kinda bad, but better than npm shelling out to the system tar