Announcing the release of findutils-4.5.18

[James Youngman]

I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.18 of GNU
findutils.

GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match
certain criteria and for performing various operations on them.
Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate".  More
information about findutils is available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.

This is a "development" release of findutils.  It can be downloaded
from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils.  This particular release can
be downloaded from
http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.5.18.tar.gz (and
you can also download it via FTP).

The 4.5.x release series is intended to allow people to try out,
comment on or contribute to new features of findutils.  During the
4.5.x release series some features may be introduced and then changed
or removed as a result of feedback or experience.  In short, please
don't rely on backward compatibility later in the release series.

While this is a development release, it is tested before being
released, principally with the regression test suite (run "make check"
to use it).  The Savannah website
(http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils) contains a current
list of known bugs in findutils (for both the stable and development
branches).

Bugs in GNU findutils should be reported to the findutils bug tracker
at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils.  Reporting bugs via
the web interface will ensure that you are automatically informed when
the bug has been fixed.  General discussion of findutils takes place
on the bug-findutils mailing list.  To join the 'bug-findutils'
mailing list, send email to <address@hidden>.

To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public
key of the findutils maintainer, James Youngman.  You can download
this from http://savannah.gnu.org/users/jay.  Please note that the key
being used will shortly change.

* Major changes in release 4.5.18, 2015-12-27

** Changes to find

Only the ftsfind binary will be installed, as "find".  Installing
oldfind, under any name, is no longer supported.  The configure option
--with-fts is still allowed, but trying to use it to enable the
installation of oldfind (for example by using --with-fts=no) results
in configure stopping with an error message.

** Translations

Updated the Slovenian translation.


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James Youngman <address@hidden>
GNU findutils maintainer