[ANNOUNCEMENT] Archive_Tar-1.4.4 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package Archive_Tar-1.4.4 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Fix Bug #21058: Long symlinks are not supported [mrook]
 * Fix Bug #23782: Prevent phar:// files from being extracted [mrook]

Package Info
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This class provides handling of tar files in PHP.
It supports creating, listing, extracting and adding to tar files.
Gzip support is available if PHP has the zlib extension built-in or
loaded. Bz2 compression is also supported with the bz2 extension loaded.
Also Lzma2 compressed archives are supported with xz extension.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar
   Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar/download/1.4.4
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar-1.4.4.tgz

Authors
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Michiel Rook (lead)