diffutils 2.8.6 available

[Paul Eggert]

GNU diffutils test version 2.8.6 is available here:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.6.tar.gz

This is mostly a bug fix version.  User-visible changes include:

  * New diff3 option --strip-trailing-cr.

  * With -N and -P, inaccessible empty regular files (the kind of files
    that 'patch' creates to indicate nonexistent backups) are now
    treated as nonexistent when they are in the 'backup' file position.

  * If multiple SKIP values are given to cmp, e.g., `cmp -i 10 -i 20',
    cmp now uses the maximal value instead of the last one.

  * diff now omits the ".000000000" on hosts that do not support
    fractional time stamps.

Please report any bugs to <address@hidden>.  Thanks.