GNU cpio 2.8 released

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU cpio version 2.8.  This is
mainly a bug-fix release.

GNU cpio is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio and
the mirror sites worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
for the list of those).

For more information on cpio, including links to file downloads,
please see its web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio
and the the project page http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cpio. 

The MD5 checksums of the files are:

0caa356e69e149fb49b76bacc64615a1  cpio-2.8.tar.gz
748117d64e156f79e223cf68904c949c  cpio-2.8.tar.bz2

The list of user-visible changes follows:

* Option --owner can be used in copy-out mode, allowing to uniformly override
ownership of the files being added to the archive.

* Bugfixes:

** Fix handling of symbolic links in copy-out mode.
** Fix setting file permissions in copy-out mode.
** Fix handling of large files.
** Fix CAN-2005-1111

Regards,
Sergey