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Introduced in branch: 
7.x
Introduced in version: 
7.101
Description: 

Drupal 7 uses a copy of the PEAR Archive_Tar library. The library was updated with the changes from the upstream 1.5.0 release.

Archive_Tar library used 777 permissions when creating new directories. After this change, the library is using 775 permissions by default when creating new directories.

Impacts: 
Module developers