new snapshot available: coreutils-8.27.99-3ebdc3

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.28 towards the end of this week,
so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
would be most welcome.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.2 MB) from:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = f38d980b63f88b66bf2415c3edf6313b

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.27.99-3ebdc3/
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

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

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Changes in coreutils since v8.27 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Andreas Schwab (1):
      nproc: fix indentation of usage output

Assaf Gordon (5):
      expr: add multibyte support
      doc: fix join example
      realpath: improve usage description for --relative-{to,base}
      doc: fix realpath index entry
      doc: add 'realpath usage examples' section

Bo Rydberg (1):
      doc: fix awk example for getting penultimate field

Bogdan Drozdowski (1):
      shred: fix invalid pattern generation for certain sizes

Chris Davies (1):
      doc: clarify in dd man page that bs= overrides [io]bs=

Colin Watson (1):
      env: add --chdir option

Jaak Ristioja (1):
      doc: Fixed typo in timeout man page

Jacob Keller (1):
      expand,unexpand: add support for incremental tab stops

Jim Meyering (10):
      maint: update to work with GCC7's -Werror=implicit-fallthrough=5
      maint: avoid spurious "make distcheck" failure
      doc: tweak wording
      tests: groups-dash.sh: avoid false failure
      groups: do not exit early
      maint: fix grammar in a shred.c comment
      doc: correct technicality in chroot's --help output
      chroot: fix typo in preceding change: didn't compile
      gnulib: update to latest and adjust gl/modules/tempname.diff
      build: adjust warning options to work with latest GCC

Josef Cejka (1):
      df: avoid stat() for dummy file systems with -l

Ludovic Courtès (1):
      tests: avoid false ulimit failure on some systems

Michael Heimpold (1):
      split: add new --hex-suffixes option

Paul Eggert (25):
      tests: port to tzdb-2017a
      sort: update comment
      tty: handle misconfigured namespaces
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      date: adjust to gnulib parse-datetime changes
      maint: remove unused functions and constants
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      dd: status=progress outputs "6 s", not "6.00001 s"
      dd: simplify translator’s jobs
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      shred: use explicit_bzero
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      shred: avoid rename race
      copy: make backup files more reliably
      copy: sanity-check --suffix
      copy: go back to failing 'cp --backup a~ a'
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      copy: more-accurate warning about destruction
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      sort: file descriptor discipline
      sort: minor cleanups
      sort: use pthread_sigmask, not sigprocmask
      nohup: simplify by using fcntl
      ptx: fix some integer overflow bugs

Philipp Thomas (1):
      df: avoid querying excluded file systems

Prateek saxena (1):
      uptime: remove inconsistent AM/PM from current time

Pádraig Brady (45):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      doc: rearrange a recent bug entry to an improvement in NEWS
      build: for factor use C in more cases for arm64 and ppc64
      build: fix missing renameat() on OS X 10.5.8
      tests: avoid a false failure on OS X 10.5.8
      split: ensure input is processed when filters exit early
      split: process more efficiently when filters exit early
      maint: avoid a static analysis warning in expand-common
      md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: don't erroneously trigger BSD reversed mode
      maint: avoid syntax check failure with wrapped returns_
      doc: refactor and update expand and unexpand --help
      maint: fix syntax-check issues in previous tty commit
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      date,touch: test and document large TZ security issue
      doc: update the instructions for generating a coverage report
      maint: fix various typos in recent commits
      mv: distinguish copy and rename operations with --verbose
      copy: don't fail when unable to chown symlinks
      tests: fix issues with recently added tail test
      tail: with --pid, ensure all inotify events are processed
      tail: exit promptly when output no longer writable
      tail: with -f don't warn if doing a blocking read of a tty
      tail: only use inotify with regular files
      maint: use C99 for loop initial declarations where possible
      tests: avoid a false failure on AIX
      maint: resync with blake2 upstream
      shred: remove redundant zeroing of freed memory
      maint: fix recent syntax-check failures
      maint: avoid a syntax-check failure
      tests: fix false failure with large printf formats
      seq: produce consistent error messages upon write error
      sort: handle musl locale differences in --debug reporting
      tests: avoid false failures on AIX
      build: use the appropriate single file include option with xlc
      kill: fix signal number to name lookup on AIX
      tests: fix issues on alpine linux
      maint: avoid a syntax check failure
      tail: reinstate inotify use with FIFOs
      ls: consistently quote symlink targets
      tests: don't fail tests when failing to write files
      doc: remove older ChangeLog items
      ls: support --hyperlink to output file:// URIs
      runcon: disable use of the TIOCSTI ioctl
      all: update gnulib submodule to latest
      stat,tail: support "AAFS" AppArmor file system

Sebastian Kisela (2):
      tail: revert to polling if a followed directory is replaced
      doc: mention `setpriv --no-new-privs` feature in runcon info


thanks!
Pádraig

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