Charge Long

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