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  Mailed the author to find a less fragile solution, but for now we require
  all the individual modules, and all at the same version.

1.39_02 25/08/2008:
- Address #31806: Please add support for bzipped tar files.
  Archive::Tar now supports reading/writing tar.bz2 files.
- Since IO::Zlib is now core, it is now a default dependency.
- Added Package::Constants as a dependency to ease the use of A::T::Constants
- Dependency on IO::Compress::Bzip2 and IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 is on
  by default, but can be negated with the -n switch when building:
  'perl Makefile.PL -n'
- Improve documentation on the new ->iter function

1.39_01 22/08/2008:
- Address the second part mentioned in this report:
  #30380: directory traversal vulnerability in Archive-Tar
  Archives are no longer allowed to extract into symlinked directories,
  unless Insecure Extract Mode is enabled (which is off by default).
- Add regression tests for this behaviour
- Address #33669 (Could not update timestamp warning on symlinks)
  Don't update timestamps on symlinks, they'll modify the original
- Apply core patch: [patch@33971] Archive::Tar was building corrupt
  archives on VMS as supplied by John Malmberg
- Address #37375: ptar should allow '-' as an archive_file name
  Patch provided by glenn jackman
- Add convenience method ->extract() to A::T::File
- improve docs of A::T::File by adding rv & object in the header
- Address #38580: [PATCH] Archive::Tar->iter
  This adds an iterator to Archive::Tar, thanks to Gisle Aas

1.38    14/12/2007:
- Promote 1.37_01 to stable.

1.37_01 11/11/2007:
_ Address #30380: directory traversal vulnerability in Archive-Tar
  - Add $INSECURE_EXTRACT_MODE which defaults to 0, disallowing
    archives to extract files outside of cwd(). This is a backwards
    incompatible change from 1.36 and before.
  - Add a -I option to ptar to enable insecure extraction if needed

1.36 16/9/2007:
-   Portability fixes for VMS, as offered by Craig Berry.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

1.26 22/8/2005: