FYI: new snapshot and an upcoming release

[Jim Meyering]

I expect to make a new release of coreutils within a week or two.
If you've been sitting on anything resembling a bug report, please
send it in sooner rather than later.

Here's a new snapshot:

coreutils snapshot:
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz        8.8 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma      3.6 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma.sig
aka
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.10.133-677610.tar.gz
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.10.133-677610.tar.lzma

All the details:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=summary

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And here's the NEWS so far:
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** Bug fixes

  configure --enable-no-install-program=groups now works.

  id now uses getgrouplist, when possible.  This results in
  much better performance when there are many users and/or groups.

  ls no longer segfaults on files in /proc when linked with an older version
  of libselinux.  E.g., ls -l /proc/sys would dereference a NULL pointer.

  mv would mistakenly unlink a destination file before calling rename,
  when the destination had two or more hard links.  It no longer does that.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]

  "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" detects and ignores the failure
  in more cases when a directory is empty.

  "seq -f % 1" would issue the erroneous diagnostic "seq: memory exhausted"
  rather than reporting the invalid string format.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]

** New features

  join now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order.  This check can
  be turned off with the --nocheck-order option.

  sort accepts the new option --sort=WORD, where WORD can be one of
  general-numeric, month, numeric or random.  These are equivalent to the
  options --general-numeric-sort/-g, --month-sort/-M, --numeric-sort/-n
  and --random-sort/-R, resp.

** Improvements

  id and groups work around an AFS-related bug whereby those programs
  would print an invalid group number, when given no user-name argument.

  ls --color no longer outputs unnecessary escape sequences

  seq gives better diagnostics for invalid formats.

** Consistency

  install, mkdir, rmdir and split now write --verbose output to stdout,
  not to stderr.