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7.0

• Rewrite in TypeScript, provide ESM and CommonJS hybrid interface
• Add tree-shake friendly exports, like import('tar/create') and import('tar/read-entry') to get individual functions or classes.
• Add chmod option that defaults to false, and deprecate noChmod. That is, reverse the default option regarding explicitly setting file system modes to match tar entry settings.
• Add processUmask option to avoid having to call process.umask() when chmod: true (or noChmod: false) is set.

6.2

• Add support for brotli compression
• Add maxDepth option to prevent extraction into excessively deep folders.

6.1

• remove dead link to benchmarks (#313) (@​yetzt)
• add examples/explanation of using tar.t (@​isaacs)
• ensure close event is emited after stream has ended (@​webark)
• replace deprecated String.prototype.substr() (@​CommanderRoot, @​lukekarrys)

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

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• bef7b1e 6.2.1
• fe8cd57 prevent extraction in excessively deep subfolders
• fe7ebfd remove security.md
• 5bc9d40 6.2.0
• fe1ef5e changelog 6.2
• e483220 get rid of npm lint stuff
• 689928a ci that works outside of npm org
• db6f539 file inference improvements for .tbr and .tgz
• 336fa8f refactor: dry and other pr comments
• eeba222 chore: lint fixes
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