new snapshot available: coreutils-8.21.176-37e00

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.22 next week, so any testing
you can do on various different systems between now and Wednesday
would be most welcome.

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf $downloaded_file
  cd coreutils-8.21.176-37e00
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

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There are two formats available to download:

coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.1 MB):
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-8.21.176-37e00.tar.xz) = af22fc69b05f23a65308eb16234a7714

coreutils snapshot in gz format for older systems (12 MB):
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-8.21.176-37e00.tar.gz) = 6b5db8619af7e4deece478a7dc534f98

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Changes in coreutils since v8.21 are summarized at
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Andreas Mohr (1):
      doc: mention 'UTC' in date --utc help

Anton Ovchinnikov (2):
      maint: avoid a valgrind memory leak warning from uptime
      df: reduce memory usage when filtering mount entries

Assaf Gordon (8):
      join: Add the -z, --zero-terminated option
      tests: add '--ignore-case' tests for uniq
      uniq: add the --group option
      tests: don't skip all uniq tests when locale is missing
      shuf: use reservoir-sampling for large or unknown sized inputs
      csplit: add the --suppress-matched option
      tests: add more tests for shuf option combinations
      shuf: add --repetition to support repetition in output

Benno Schulenberg (2):
      doc: use semicolon instead of period in option descriptions
      doc: more semicolons instead of periods in option descriptions

Bernhard Voelker (25):
      maint: prevent trailing period at first line of a commit message
      tail: let -f --retry wait for inaccessible files
      tail: exit following by descriptor when no tailable file left
      build: update gnulib submodule; also bootstrap to latest
      mkdir,mkfifo,mknod: give scontext-related variable a better scope
      maint: make some shell and perl scripts executable in 'tests/'
      maint: use new gnulib function to free mount entries in du
      du: add --inodes option
      maint: cleanup compare calls in test/du/inodes.sh
      tests: fix another test failure in test/du/inodes.sh
      maint: update copyright year number ranges of numfmt sources
      doc: use more modern file system type examples in df description
      doc: clarify when seq ends
      maint: update help2man to 1.43.3
      maint: use help2man configured with --disable-nls
      maint: avoid patching help2man
      id: add -z, --zero option
      build: fix dependencies of man/sha*sum.1
      doc: enhance diagnostic when rm skips "." or ".." arguments
      maint: avoid perl warning in sc_check-AUTHORS
      tests: enhance rm test regarding "." and ".."
      df: remove long-obsolescent --megabytes option
      maint: remove various FIXME comments
      tests: add a test for rm -r "/"
      maint: avoid '%s' quoting notation in diagnostic messages

Cojocaru Alexandru (4):
      cut: make memory allocation independent of range width
      cut: reduce CPU overhead in determining item to output
      cut: fix handling of overlapping ranges
      cut: improve performance, especially with --output-delimiter

Colin Leitner (1):
      stty: add support for mark/space parity

D. Hugh Redelmeier (1):
      doc: fix details on the interaction of df with device nodes

Daniel J Walsh (1):
      selinux: a new module implementing "restorecon" functionality

Enrico Scholz (1):
      build: fix man page build failure with some permissions setups

Eric Blake (1):
      doc: mention prior stat change

FUJIWARA Katsunori (1):
      ls: fix possible incorrect exit status when recursing directories

Filipus Klutiero (1):
      doc: fix typo in description of df

Gian Piero Carrubba (1):
      cp: fix --link regarding the dereferencing of symbolic links

Jarkko Sakkinen (4):
      id: with -Z, show SMACK security context
      id: adjust/restrict smack support to newer versions of libsmack
      ls: with -Z, show SMACK security context
      mkdir,mkfifo,mknod: with -Z, create SMACK security context

Javier López (1):
      dircolors: add a new entry to colorize 'arc' files

Jim Meyering (6):
      scripts: tweak URLs in autotools-install
      build: avoid new syntax-check failure
      tests: fix an ls test not to fail when user or group name contains SP
      tests: avoid spurious failure when SIZE_MAX is 2^32-1
      tests: head-c: avoid spurious failure with a 32-bit size_t
      od: -wN, N>64K, avoid misbehavior on systems with 32-bit size_t

Joachim Schmitz (2):
      build: fix numfmt build error on compilers without __attribute
      copy: ensure the correct root ID is checked on all platforms

John (1):
      dircolors: add a new entry to colorize 'lz4' files

Karl Berry (1):
      doc: expand the texinfo examples for the paste command

Ken Booth (1):
      mv: replace empty directories in cross file system move

Mike Frysinger (1):
      dircolors: add putty-256color terminal type

Ondrej Oprala (2):
      install: cleanup properly if the strip program failed for any reason
      dd: avoid buffer allocations unless needed

Ondřej Vašík (2):
      dircolors: add new entries to colorized archive formats
      cp: correct error message for invalid arguments of '--no-preserve'

Paul Eggert (9):
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      mkdir: don't assume umask equals POSIX default ACL mask
      maint: add FIXME comment
      tests: don't assume expr was built with GMP
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: port --enable-gcc-warnings to clang
      stat: tune for large-LDAP case
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      doc: fix typo

Pádraig Brady (89):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      tests: avoid false failures on file systems with smaller NAME_MAX
      maint: cleanup up various uses of __attribute__
      doc: move some info from all --help messages, online
      maint: ensure proper backslash quoting in texinfo macros
      doc: remove a redundant numfmt heading from texinfo
      doc: mention `numfmt` as an alternative to `sort -h`
      doc: clarify stat the meaning of --format="%t %T"
      doc: clarify the printable characters output by od
      build: fix issues when building with GMP
      maint: improve make src/fs-magic-compare
      stat,tail: improve support for efivarfs, exofs, f2fs and ubifs
      doc: add details on ln --relative symlink resolution
      shuf: exit without reading if would never output
      tail: exit without reading input if would never output
      tests: avoid shared lib tests on unsupported platforms
      head: with --bytes=-N only allocate memory as needed
      doc: mention caveats with using install --compare
      tests: avoid false failures with non default groups
      tests: fix usage of require_ulimit_
      stat,tail: improve support for snfs
      cut: reduce CPU usage for the the common case
      doc: correct a URL to older textutils source
      doc: link to the list of rejected feature requests
      split: with --line-bytes only allocate memory as needed
      tests: avoid a race in tail --retry testing
      doc: clarify the description of du --separate-dirs
      maint: update gitignore entries
      tests: use appropriate precision when printing float limits
      doc: clarify that truncate --size represents bytes by default
      stdbuf: make it mandatory to specify a buffering option
      id: don't show SMACK errors unless -Z is specified
      maint: refactor SMACK interface to a separate module
      stat: ensure --context emits an "unrecognized option" diagnostic
      tests: fix "shuf unreadable" test to work when run as root
      df: fix mount list processing with unstatable mount dirs
      maint: adjust indentation in df.c
      build: fix a build warning on 32 bit systems in shuf.c
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: avoid a valgrind memory leak warning from pinky
      head: avoid redundant allocations when reading empty files
      dd: make status=none suppress all diagnostics
      tests: fix intermittent failure in test/du/inodes.sh
      maint: avoid clang static analysis issues in csplit
      doc: clarify that cp by default doesn't adjust existing file perms
      doc: clarify that uniq -d outputs a single entry per group
      df: fix "blocks" translation in header
      maint: update out of date confusing comments
      build: fix corrupted patch causing bootstrap failures
      tests: avoid a failure when there isn't a name for all user IDs
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest; also bootstrap to latest
      id: support specifying the user by user ID
      maint: remove unused parameters to parse_user_spec()
      tests: parameterize the "root" username
      maint: move all id(1) tests to the same directory
      mktemp: synchronize the -p option with docs
      mktemp: with --quiet, only suppress I/O errors
      mktemp: fix incorrect exit status from previous commit
      doc: clarify the example for cp --preserve=links
      maint: update the instructions for building prerequisites
      maint: simplify printing of md5sum file names
      md5sum, sha*sum: improve help for --check related options
      shred: enable direct I/O when possible
      shred: write larger chunks when possible
      shred: fix direct I/O failures for last write to file
      shred: increase I/O block size for periodic pattern case
      shred: avoid data write pass with --size=0
      base64: improve encoding I/O efficiency
      tests: fix false rm -I test failure when run as root
      doc: clarify the operation of ls -k
      sort: avoid issues when issuing diagnostics from child processes
      tests: ensure factor tests can be regenerated
      timeout: avoid unlikely issues with --kill-after
      df: add --output=file to directly output specified arguments
      tail: improve inotify handling of symlinks
      shred: provide --remove methods to avoid excessive syncing
      selinux: adjust utils to run restorecon with -Z
      build: avoid build failure on non selinux systems
      build: avoid more selinux build failures
      build: fix selinux.c build failure on 32 bit
      build: fix potential factor build failure on arm and powerpc
      doc: remove obsolete info on terminal alignment bugs
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      df: dereference symlinks to disk device nodes
      df: handle bind mounts when processing device nodes
      md5sum, sha*sum: use libcrypto where available
      selinux: fix --context=CTX for cp and diagnose defaultcon() errors
      tests: fix false failure with disabled SELinux support

Rasmus Villemoes (1):
      rm: output number of arguments at the interactive prompt

Rémy Lefevre (1):
      ln: --relative: fix updating of existing symlinks

Sergio Durigan Junior (1):
      rm: with -I, prompt before deleting a write protected file

Stefano Lattarini (3):
      maint: don't reset PATH in the commit-msg git hook
      maint: choose editor in the commit-msg git hook the same way git does
      tests: numfmt: use the printf program, not the shell builtin

Torbjörn Granlund (1):
      build: fix factor build failure on aarch64

thanks!
Pádraig.