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Changes for version 2.28

  • fix creating file with trailing whitespace on filename - fixes 103279
  • allow archiving with absolute pathnames - fixes 97748
  • small POD fix
  • Speed up extract when archive contains lots of files
  • CVE-2018-12015 directory traversal vulnerability [RT#125523]

Documentation

a tar-like program written in perl
program that diffs an extracted archive against an unextracted one
Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive

Modules

module for manipulations of tar archives
a subclass for in-memory extracted file from Archive::Tar

Provides

in lib/Archive/Tar/Constant.pm