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coreutils-8.14 next week


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: coreutils-8.14 next week
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:33:18 +0200

With this ls -lL bug, I am strongly inclined to make a coreutils-8.14
release soon, as in next week.  Plus, there are already two other
bug fixes.

If you have something you'd like to see included, let us know.

Here's NEWS:

** Bug fixes

  ls --dereference no longer outputs erroneous "argetm" strings for
  dangling symlinks when an 'ln=target' entry is in $LS_COLORS.
  [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0]

  ls -lL symlink once again properly prints "+" when the referent has an ACL.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.13]

  sort -g no longer infloops for certain inputs containing NaNs
  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.5]

** Improvements

  md5sum --check now supports the -r format from the corresponding BSD tool.
  This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.

  pwd now works also on systems without openat.  On such systems, pwd
  would fail when run from a directory whose absolute name contained
  more than PATH_MAX / 3 components.  The df, stat and readlink programs
  are also affected due to their use of the canonicalize_* functions.

** Changes in behavior

  timeout now only processes the first signal received from the set
  it is handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT, ...).  This is to support systems that
  implicitly create threads for some timer functions (like GNU/kFreeBSD).

** Build-related

  "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files.
  xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
  only .tar.xz files is enough.



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