Thank you! On Fri, Sep 24, 2021, at 10:01, Pádraig Brady wrote: > This is to announce coreutils-9.0, a stable release. > > This is a new major release, with these significant changes: > - cp has changed how it handles data > - enables CoW by default (through FICLONE ioctl), > - uses copy offload where available (through copy_file_range), > - detects holes differently (though SEEK_HOLE) > - This also applies to mv and install. > > - utilities are more tuned to the hardware available > - wc uses avx2 instructions to count lines > - cksum uses pclmul instructions for --algorithm=crc > - Other digest tunings remain delegated to libcrypto > > - More amalgamation of utilities > - cksum now supports the -a option to select any digest. > - This is the preferred interface, rather than sha*sum etc. > - This is similar to the amalgamation of encoding utilities > introduced in the basenc command in v8.31. > See the NEWS below for more details. > > Thanks to everyone who has contributed! > There have been 257 commits by 25 people in the 81 weeks since 8.32 > Andreas Schwab (1) KOBAYASHI Takashi (2) > Arman Absalan (1) Kamil Dudka (4) > Assaf Gordon (1) Kristoffer Brånemyr (3) > Ben Pfaff (1) Nikolay Nechaev (1) > Benno Schulenberg (1) Nishant Nayan (1) > Bernhard Voelker (17) Paul Eggert (97) > Carl Edquist (2) Pádraig Brady (110) > Emanuele Giacomelli (1) Tianjia Zhang (1) > Erik Auerswald (1) Tim Gates (1) > Grigorii Sokolik (2) Tobias Stoeckmann (1) > Jason Kim (1) Zorro Lang (1) > Jim Meyering (7) nl6720 (1) > Justin Tracey (1) > > Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers] > > ================================================================== > > Here is the GNU coreutils home page: > https://gnu.org/software/coreutils/ > > For a summary of changes and contributors, see: > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v9.0 > or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory: > git shortlog v8.32..v9.0 > > To summarize the 1615 gnulib-related changes, run these commands > from a git-cloned coreutils directory: > git checkout v9.0 > git submodule summary v8.32 > > ================================================================== > > > Here are the compressed sources: > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.0.tar.gz (14MB) > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.0.tar.xz (5.4MB) > > Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.0.tar.gz.sig > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.0.tar.xz.sig > > Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: > https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html > > Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: > > 027a318930f295cb5bbc0dd06fb47a3b8552fc80 coreutils-9.0.tar.gz > b9TriKUVAEl3/HLX9HtAYgQJzEHfrwBBn90b4XZjxDQ coreutils-9.0.tar.gz > e2623469f37259d4a89ced5f91af5eaf0ab8792d coreutils-9.0.tar.xz > zjCs30pBvFuzDdlV6eqnX6IWtOPesIiJ7TJDPHs7l84 coreutils-9.0.tar.xz > > The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the > hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to. > > [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the > .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file > and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: > > gpg --verify coreutils-9.0.tar.gz.sig > > If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, > then run this command to import it: > > gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys DF6FD971306037D9 > > and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. > > This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: > Autoconf 2.71 > Automake 1.16.4 > Gnulib v0.1-4937-g9aca7b673 > Bison 3.7.4 > > ================================================================== > > NEWS > > * Noteworthy changes in release 9.0 (2021-09-24) [stable] > > ** Bug fixes > > chmod -v no longer misreports modes of dangling symlinks. > [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0] > > cp -a --attributes-only now never removes destination files, > even if the destination files are hardlinked, or the source > is a non regular file. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] > > csplit --suppress-matched now elides the last matched line > when a specific number of pattern matches are performed. > [bug introduced with the --suppress-matched feature in coreutils-8.22] > > df no longer outputs duplicate remote mounts in the presence of bind > mounts. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26] > > df no longer mishandles command-line args that it pre-mounts > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.29] > > du no longer crashes on XFS file systems when the directory hierarchy is > heavily changed during the run. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.25] > > env -S no longer crashes when given unusual whitespace characters > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.30] > > expr no longer mishandles unmatched \(...\) in regular expressions. > [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0] > > ls no longer crashes when printing the SELinux context for unstatable > files. > [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.91] > > mkdir -m no longer mishandles modes more generous than the umask. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22] > > nl now handles single character --section-delimiter arguments, > by assuming a second ':' character has been specified, as specified by > POSIX. > [This bug was present in "the beginning".] > > pr again adjusts tabs in input, to maintain alignment in multi column > output. > [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9] > > rm no longer skips an extra file when the removal of an empty > directory fails. > [bug introduced by the rewrite to use fts in coreutils-8.0] > > split --number=K/N will again correctly split chunk K of N to stdout. > Previously a chunk starting after 128KiB, output the wrong part of the > file. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26] > > tail -f no longer overruns a stack buffer when given too many files > to follow and ulimit -n exceeds 1024. > [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] > > tr no longer crashes when using --complement with certain > invalid combinations of case character classes. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] > > basenc --base64 --decode no longer silently discards decoded characters > on (1024*5) buffer boundaries > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.31] > > ** Changes in behavior > > cp and install now default to copy-on-write (COW) if available. > > cp, install and mv now use the copy_file_range syscall if available. > Also, they use lseek+SEEK_HOLE rather than ioctl+FS_IOC_FIEMAP on sparse > files, as lseek is simpler and more portable. > > On GNU/Linux systems, ls no longer issues an error message on a > directory merely because it was removed. This reverts a change > that was made in release 8.32. > > ptx -T no longer attempts to substitute old-fashioned TeX escapes > for 8-bit non-ASCII alphabetic characters. TeX indexes should > instead use '\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}' or equivalent. > > stat will use decomposed (major,minor) device numbers in its default > format. > This is less ambiguous, and more consistent with ls. > > sum [-r] will output a file name, even if only a single name is passed. > This is consistent with sum -s, cksum, and other sum(1) implementations. > > ** New Features > > cksum now supports the -a (--algorithm) option to select any > of the existing sum, md5sum, b2sum, sha*sum implementations etc. > cksum now subsumes all of these programs, and coreutils > will introduce no future standalone checksum utility. > > cksum -a now supports the 'sm3' argument, to use the SM3 digest algorithm. > > cksum --check now supports auto detecting the digest type to use, > when verifying tagged format checksums. > > expr and factor now support bignums on all platforms. > > ls --classify now supports the "always", "auto", or "never" flags, > to support only outputting classifier characters if connected to a tty. > > ls now accepts the --sort=width option, to sort by file name width. > This is useful to more compactly organize the default vertical column > output. > > ls now accepts the --zero option, to terminate each output line with > NUL instead of newline. > > nl --line-increment can now take a negative number to decrement the count. > > stat supports more formats for representing decomposed device numbers. > %Hd,%Ld and %Hr,%Lr will output major,minor device numbers and device types > respectively. %d corresponds to st_dev and %r to std_rdev. > > ** Improvements > > cat --show-ends will now show \r\n as ^M$. Previously the \r was taken > literally, thus overwriting the first character in the line with '$'. > > cksum [-a crc] is now up to 4 times faster by using a slice by 8 algorithm, > and at least 8 times faster where pclmul instructions are supported. > A new --debug option will indicate if pclmul is being used. > > md5sum --check now supports checksum files with CRLF line endings. > This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum. > > df now recognizes these file systems as remote: > acfs, coda, fhgfs, gpfs, ibrix, ocfs2, and vxfs. > > rmdir now clarifies the error if a symlink_to_dir/ has not been traversed. > This is the case on GNU/Linux systems, where the trailing slash is ignored. > > stat and tail now know about the "devmem", "exfat", "secretmem", "vboxsf", > and "zonefs" file system types. stat -f -c%T now reports the file system > type, and tail -f uses polling for "vboxsf" and inotify for the others. > > timeout now supports sub-second timeouts on macOS. > > wc is up to 5 times faster when counting only new line characters, > where avx2 instructions are supported. > A new --debug option will indicate if avx2 is being used. > > - > Also posted at https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10052 > > -- > If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like > to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, > see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
-- Geoffrey S. Knauth | https://knauth.org/gsk
