Index: whatsnew25.tex
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--- whatsnew25.tex	(revision 50864)
+++ whatsnew25.tex	(working copy)
@@ -1687,8 +1687,8 @@
 a different directory as the extraction target, and to unpack only a
 subset of the archive's members.
 
-A tarfile's compression can be autodetected by 
-using the mode \code{'r|*'}.
+The compression of a tarfile opened in stream mode can now be
+autodetected using the mode \code{'r|*'}.
 % patch 918101
 (Contributed by Lars Gust\"abel.)