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3.10  25/05/2026 (Stig Palmquist)
- Added MAX_FILE_SIZE setting, defaulting to 1GB, for
  extracting files

3.08  22/05/2026 (Stig Palmquist)
- Validate symlink and hardlink linkname in SECURE MODE
  
3.06  10/05/2026
- Hardlinks not extracted by default, added EXTRACT_HARDLINK flag
- If hardlinks are extracted, they are now subject to the same rules
  as symlinks with regards to chown and chmod

3.04  25/02/2025 (Dan Church, Arne Johannessen && SISYPHUS)
- Fix handling filenames with trailing whitespace
- Allow --format=ustar option for ptar
- GH#21402 Symlink tests on Windows

3.02  13/04/2023 (Manfred Stock)
- Test block sizes up to (2**31 - 1) bytes only (fix for 32bit perls)
- Don't match on message from exception in symlink test
- Improve formatting of $Archive::Tar::RESOLVE_SYMLINK documentation

3.00  25/03/2023 (Chris Lindee, Reini Urban, Paul Bolle, Michiel Beijen, Paulo Custodio, Michael R. Davis && Manfred Stock)
- RT #119949: Correctly concat prefix on directories
- enabled t/90_symlink.t for all platforms with symlinks
- Fix pod typo 'Archive::Tar::Files'
- Update links under SEE ALSO
- Skip symlink tests on Windows/msys2
- Support extraction of large files

2.40  27/07/2021 (KHW && ATOOMIC)
- Generalize for EBCDIC
- Update GitHub workflow with deprecated add-path

2.38  25/06/2020 (ATOOMIC)
- Avoid indirect calls
- Add use warnings to bin/ptar*

2.36  02/02/2020
- Add xz test files to MANIFEST

2.34  01/02/2020 (HEANEY && SKAJI)
- Add xz support
- Use 4 digit year in Time::Local call

2.32  13/09/2018 (CBERRY)
- Fix absolute path handling on VMS

2.30  19/06/2018
- skip white_space test on MSWin32 as Windows will report that both
  files exist, which is obviously a 'feature'

2.28  08/06/2018 (madroach, ARC, OCBNET, ppisar)
- 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]

2.26  12/05/2017
- '0' is a valid name for an archive, change 'iter' to check definedness

2.24  16/12/2016 (SREZIC)
- Handle tarballs compressed with pbzip2 (RT #119262)

2.22  16/12/2016 (MANWAR)
- Add missing strict/warnings pragma to Constants.pm

2.20  15/12/2016 (AGRUNDMA)
- Check for gzip/bzip2 before round tripping gz/bz2 files in tests