I needed to know when cp -p started preserving timestamps to ns resolution and found that there was no NEWS item for that, so I added one:
--- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 291ce13..c3aaa3d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1130,6 +1130,12 @@ * Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (2008-05-31) [stable] +** New features + + cp, install, mv, and touch now preserve nanosecond resolution on + file timestamps, on platforms that have the 'utimensat' and + 'futimens' system calls. + ** Bug fixes chcon, runcon: --help output now includes the bug-reporting address
