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new snapshot available: coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e.tar.xz


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e.tar.xz
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 02:18:19 -0800
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We plan to release coreutils-8.31 in the coming 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 (5.3 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) = ad9c680207e266c6cb59bde2bea4a5af

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e/
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

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

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Changes in coreutils since v8.30 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:


Achilles Gaikwad (1):
      id: support multiple specified users

Assaf Gordon (6):
      maint: rename base64.c to basenc.c
      basenc: A new program complementary to base64/base32
      base64,base32: fix 'extra operand' error message
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      basenc: allocate buffers on heap
      env: new options --{default,ignore,block}-signal[=SIG]

Ayappan (1):
      tail: fix recent ineffective AIX change

Bernhard Voelker (10):
      test: avoid FP in chroot-credentials.sh for different group list order
      test: remove support for the ambigous -a unary operator
      test: simplify redundant code
      test: add -N unary operator
      tests: provide 100% coverage for echo
      sync: add NEWS and test for the fix in the previous commit
      maint: mention base32 in the title line of common basenc.c
      build: use distributed man pages when running with --help fails
      all: detect --help and --version more consistently
      doc: further clarify 'yes' alternative in seq invocation

Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1):
      doc: fix minor mistakes in "env.x"

Chih-Hsuan Yen (1):
      df: avoid multibyte character corruption on macOS

Daming Yang (1):
      ls: better align month abbreviations containing digits

Filipp Gunbin (1):
      doc: fix typo referencing RFC 2822

Jim Meyering (1):
      maint: init.cfg: fix a minor test-related quoting bug

Martin Bukatovic (1):
      stat: print birth time on systems supporting statx

Martin Castillo (1):
      doc: fix join examples in texinfo

Paul Eggert (24):
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      df: avoid multibyte character corruption on macOS
      df: tune slightly
      df: omit redundant comparison
      doc: add chmod examples
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      cp: 'cp -il A B' no longer fails if user OKs it
      ln: avoid directory hard-link races
      doc: tidy up setuid commentary
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      ln: use linkat and symlinkat
      sync: fix open fallback bug
      shred,sort,split: fix ftruncate error reporting
      shred,sort,split: add NEWS item
      sleep: improve doc
      doc: update Goldberg URL
      printf,seq,sleep,tail,timeout: accept current-locale floats
      printf,seq: improve long double accuracy
      printf,seq: remove c-strtod dependency
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      date: ‘+’ conversion specification flag
      doc: fix typo in previous patch
      doc: give date +%+F example
      doc: more date +%F clarifications

Pádraig Brady (28):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      tests: fix skipping in some tests
      tests: avoid false failure on sparc 32 bit
      doc: csplit: clarify input may not be reproducible from output
      echo: always process escapes when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
      doc: mention that more than 8 colors are supported by ls
      doc: adjust URLs in help to avoid wrapping
      tail: don't exit immediately with filters on AIX
      ls: with --group-directories-first, also group symlinked dirs
      gnulib: update to the latest
      build: ensure VLAs are not used
      tail: fix handling of broken pipes with SIGPIPE ignored
      maint: fix new syntax-check failure from recent change
      build: fix recent build failure on systems without strtold
      tests: add test for locale decimal processing
      stat,tail: fix android build and support inotify
      build: ensure sys/select.h is included
      seq: output decimal points consistently with invalid locales
      gnulib: update to use new strtold module
      comm,join: ensure warnings are apparent upon exit
      sort: clarify in --debug; only text comparisons affected
      gnulib: update to the latest
      wc: treat non breaking space as a word separator
      maint: tidy up recent additions to NEWS
      df: support different file system encodings when not using tty
      env: add --list-signal-handling to output non default handling
      build: revert recent change with distributed man page handling
      doc: remove older ChangeLog items

Stéphane Campinas (1):
      doc: csplit: clarify handling of regexps with negative offsets

Wodry (1):
      doc: improve documentation of binary prefixes


thank you!
Pádraig

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