diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/Makefile b/usr.bin/tar/Makefile
index 2ac23b2c1f37..15b386ab901f 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tar/Makefile
+++ b/usr.bin/tar/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PROG=	bsdtar
-VERSION=	2.0.28
+VERSION=	2.2.3
 SRCS=	bsdtar.c getdate.y matching.c read.c tree.c util.c write.c
 WARNS?=	5
 DPADD=	${LIBARCHIVE} ${LIBBZ2} ${LIBZ}
diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1 b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1
index 651df62bdaea..e6350dccc1c8 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1
+++ b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1
@@ -360,6 +360,10 @@ Without this option,
 overwrites existing files, which preserves existing hardlinks.
 With this option, existing hardlinks will be broken, as will any
 symlink that would affect the location of an extracted file.
+.It Fl -use-compress-program Ar program
+Pipe the input (in x or t mode) or the output (in c mode) through
+.Pa program
+instead of using the builtin compression support.
 .It Fl v
 Produce verbose output.
 In create and extract modes,
diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.c b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.c
index 7626a43d048a..5ada5518ca68 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.c
+++ b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.c
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ enum {
 	OPTION_ONE_FILE_SYSTEM,
 	OPTION_STRIP_COMPONENTS,
 	OPTION_TOTALS,
+	OPTION_USE_COMPRESS_PROGRAM,
 	OPTION_VERSION
 };
 
@@ -202,6 +203,8 @@ static const struct option tar_longopts[] = {
 	{ "unlink",		no_argument,       NULL, 'U' },
 	{ "unlink-first",	no_argument,       NULL, 'U' },
 	{ "update",             no_argument,       NULL, 'u' },
+	{ "use-compress-program",
+				required_argument, NULL, OPTION_USE_COMPRESS_PROGRAM },
 	{ "verbose",            no_argument,       NULL, 'v' },
 	{ "version",            no_argument,       NULL, OPTION_VERSION },
 	{ NULL, 0, NULL, 0 }
@@ -558,6 +561,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 			usage(bsdtar);
 #endif
 			break;
+		case OPTION_USE_COMPRESS_PROGRAM:
+			bsdtar->compress_program = optarg;
+			break;
 		default:
 			usage(bsdtar);
 		}
diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.h b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.h
index 6b5108033cbb..8a56ddfea984 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.h
+++ b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.h
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ struct bsdtar {
 	char		  mode; /* Program mode: 'c', 't', 'r', 'u', 'x' */
 	char		  symlink_mode; /* H or L, per BSD conventions */
 	char		  create_compression; /* j, y, or z */
+	const char	 *compress_program;
 	char		  option_absolute_paths; /* -P */
 	char		  option_dont_traverse_mounts; /* --one-file-system */
 	char		  option_fast_read; /* --fast-read */
diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/read.c b/usr.bin/tar/read.c
index 4763b13ae0f4..dead37a22c8d 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tar/read.c
+++ b/usr.bin/tar/read.c
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ read_archive(struct bsdtar *bsdtar, char mode)
 		include_from_file(bsdtar, bsdtar->names_from_file);
 
 	a = archive_read_new();
-	archive_read_support_compression_all(a);
+	if (bsdtar->compress_program != NULL)
+		archive_read_support_compression_program(a, bsdtar->compress_program);
+	else
+		archive_read_support_compression_all(a);
 	archive_read_support_format_all(a);
 	if (archive_read_open_file(a, bsdtar->filename,
 	    bsdtar->bytes_per_block != 0 ? bsdtar->bytes_per_block :
@@ -294,7 +297,7 @@ list_item_verbose(struct bsdtar *bsdtar, FILE *out, struct archive_entry *entry)
 	/* Use uname if it's present, else uid. */
 	p = archive_entry_uname(entry);
 	if ((p == NULL) || (*p == '\0')) {
-		sprintf(tmp, "%d ", st->st_uid);
+		sprintf(tmp, "%lu ", (unsigned long)st->st_uid);
 		p = tmp;
 	}
 	w = strlen(p);
@@ -308,7 +311,7 @@ list_item_verbose(struct bsdtar *bsdtar, FILE *out, struct archive_entry *entry)
 		fprintf(out, "%s", p);
 		w = strlen(p);
 	} else {
-		sprintf(tmp, "%d", st->st_gid);
+		sprintf(tmp, "%lu", (unsigned long)st->st_gid);
 		w = strlen(tmp);
 		fprintf(out, "%s", tmp);
 	}
@@ -319,9 +322,9 @@ list_item_verbose(struct bsdtar *bsdtar, FILE *out, struct archive_entry *entry)
 	 * If gs_width is too small, grow it.
 	 */
 	if (S_ISCHR(st->st_mode) || S_ISBLK(st->st_mode)) {
-		sprintf(tmp, "%d,%u",
-		    major(st->st_rdev),
-		    (unsigned)minor(st->st_rdev)); /* ls(1) also casts here. */
+		sprintf(tmp, "%lu,%lu",
+		    (unsigned long)major(st->st_rdev),
+		    (unsigned long)minor(st->st_rdev)); /* ls(1) also casts here. */
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Note the use of platform-dependent macros to format
diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/write.c b/usr.bin/tar/write.c
index 76d6fcfd1c24..0efddd097746 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tar/write.c
+++ b/usr.bin/tar/write.c
@@ -203,23 +203,28 @@ tar_mode_c(struct bsdtar *bsdtar)
 	} else
 		archive_write_set_bytes_per_block(a, DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_BLOCK);
 
-	switch (bsdtar->create_compression) {
-	case 0:
-		break;
+	if (bsdtar->compress_program) {
+		archive_write_set_compression_program(a, bsdtar->compress_program);
+	} else {
+		switch (bsdtar->create_compression) {
+		case 0:
+			archive_write_set_compression_none(a);
+			break;
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBBZ2
-	case 'j': case 'y':
-		archive_write_set_compression_bzip2(a);
-		break;
+		case 'j': case 'y':
+			archive_write_set_compression_bzip2(a);
+			break;
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
-	case 'z':
-		archive_write_set_compression_gzip(a);
-		break;
+		case 'z':
+			archive_write_set_compression_gzip(a);
+			break;
 #endif
-	default:
-		bsdtar_errc(bsdtar, 1, 0,
-		    "Unrecognized compression option -%c",
-		    bsdtar->create_compression);
+		default:
+			bsdtar_errc(bsdtar, 1, 0,
+			    "Unrecognized compression option -%c",
+			    bsdtar->create_compression);
+		}
 	}
 
 	r = archive_write_open_file(a, bsdtar->filename);