We plan to release coreutils-9.4 in the coming week
so any testing you can do on various different systems
between now and then would be most welcome.
This is a stabilization release coming about 18 weeks after the 9.3 release.
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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.7 MiB) 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) = c56f1e62205fa34f6258fdf6cc6bdc1b
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To test follow this standard procedure:
tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
cd coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab/
./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
Failures are reported, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
Please report/attach any issues to coreutils@gnu.org
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This snapshot was bootstrapped with:
Autoconf 2.72c.32-cb6fb
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v0.1-6650-gc5a5f46e54
Bison 3.8.2
Changes in coreutils since v9.3 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):
tests: avoid failure when cp fails for proc files
Bernhard Voelker (3):
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
doc: reference install(1) and cp(1) from each other
maint: fix typo in NEWS
Bruno Haible (8):
build: ensure that makeinfo ≥ 6.8 checks the @menu structure
uptime: output correct user count on OpenBSD
maint: Simplify after gnulib changed
pinky,users,who: optimize read_utmp invocation
build: fix link errors with gcc < 4.8
build: fix recent compilation error on GNU/Hurd
uptime: Include VM sleep time in the "up" duration
uptime: simplify following gnulib changes
Dragan Simic (3):
maint: reformat text width in HACKING
cut: promptly diagnose write errors, continued
maint: minor comment cleanups
Jaroslav Skarvada (1):
build: fix build with -mno-ssse3
Jim Meyering (1):
cksum: improve problematic_chars function
Paul Eggert (56):
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
csplit: pacify GCC 13
chmod: pacify GCC 13
maint: suppress GCC 13 false alarms
maint: simplify --enable-gcc-warnings='expensive'
cp: -p --parents: minor cleanup of previous patch
doc: new subsection for date format specs
doc: time zone conversion example
dd: fix ‘error’ name issue without macros
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
wc: port to kernels that disable XSAVE YMM
cksum: fix bug in check for cksum_pclmul
cksum,wc: don’t include <cpuid.h>
cksum,wc: clean up hw capability checking
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
doc: mention fix for bug#64123
maint: update GCC bug number in comment
maint: prefer C23-style nullptr
maint: fix indenting in previous change
maint: improve static and dynamic checking
maint: go back to using ‘error’
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
maint: stop pacifying Parfait
maint: pacify GCC bug#109613 better
df: omit GCC 5 ‘assume’s
who: don’t crash if clock gyrates
maint: prefer ckd_add to INT_ADD_WRAPV etc
maint: sync bootstrap from Gnulib
stty: fix untranslated diagnostics
maint: update .gitignore
mv: better diagnostic for 'mv dir x' failure
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
who: fix only-theoretical overflow
maint: include idx.h everywhere
factor: prefer signed types
join: prefer signed types
cksum,df,digest: prefer signed types
od: prefer signed types
dircolors,du,expr: prefer signed types
groups,id: don’t assume gid_t fits in unsigned long
kill: prefer signed types
mktemp,seq: prefer signed types
numfmt: prefer signed types
pathchk: prefer signed types
pinky: prefer signed types
pinky: fix "d" typo
uptime: fix Y5881633 bug
maint: Update after gnulib module 'readutmp' changed
pinky,who: omit pragma
who: simplify based on readutmp changes
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
doc: improve NEWS discussion of systemd
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
uptime: be more generous about read_utmp failure
maint: update uptime NEWS
Pádraig Brady (71):
maint: post-release administrivia
install: support stripping files with a leading hyphen
cksum: fix failure to diagnose read errors with crc32
tsort: diagnose errors reading the input
numfmt: diagnose errors reading the input
factor: diagnose errors reading the input
tests: ensure all utilities that read input diagnose errors
copy: reduce verbosity of -i and -u with --verbose
pr: fix infinite loop when double spacing
uniq: be more specific when diagnosing read errors
tests: more cases for read input diagnostics
maint: remove redundant exit status handling
doc: provide more info on the default 32-bit cksum digest
tests: provide more info on DEBUG=yes
cp: -p --parents: fix failure to preserve permissions for absolute paths
pr: fix parsing of empty arguments
doc: adjust build instructions for disabling year 2038 support
split: advise the kernel of sequential access pattern
maint: cleanups to NEWS
build: gnulib: avoid false -Wstringop-overflow warning
build: avoid false -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings
build: revert -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings avoidance
build: pacify GCC 13 with -flto
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
build: modernize bootstrap prerequsite tools
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
maint: augment syntax checks to cater for more "error" functions
maint: adjust code to handle "error" syntax-check changes
split: --additional-suffix: disallow trailing '/'
maint: use consistent make variable interpolation syntax
doc: NEWS: mention the more defensive copy_file_range avoidance
maint: avoid syntax-check failure
doc: reference COPYING from README
ls: use more standard symlink traversal
ls: display command line symlinks that return ELOOP
maint: ls.c: update stale comment for previous commit
doc: od --strings: clarify operation
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
dd: fix parsing of numbers with more than two multipliers
doc: mention cksum error fix with cpu feature checks changes
b2sum: fix UAR with --check with malformed checksum lines
maint: avoid static analysis failure for ignored dup2 return
cksum: support transparent emulation of older utils
cksum: escape filenames with a leading '\' in --check status
maint: give a new function the "pure" attribute
tests: ensure utilties exit promptly upon write error
all: avoid repeated diagnostic upon write error
od: promptly diagnose write errors
uniq: promptly diagnose write errors
cut: promptly diagnose write errors
comm: promptly diagnose write errors
join: promptly diagnose write errors
maint: add syntax check to ensure safe mkstemp usage
tac: fall back to /tmp if $TMPDIR is unavailable
split: honor $TMPDIR for temp files
tests: split: provide more isolated /tmp handling
maint: add a syntax check to prevent use of NULL
doc: clarify tail -n/-c +NUM operation
tac: handle short reads on input
od: fix issues with recent format string changes
pinky: fix buffer size on 32 bit builds
doc: separate out description of 2038 time stamp change
maint: allow use of printf C99 integer size specifiers
maint: avoid syntax-check failure
tests: fix false failure due to locale on alpine
maint: remove extraneous line in NEWS
maint: comment spelling fix
cp: with --sparse=never, avoid COW and copy offload
doc: cksum: remove -b description from texinfo
doc: reorg texinfo for the checksumming utilities
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Sylvestre Ledru (2):
tests: move tests to a directory per utility
tests: mktemp -t: $TMPDIR has higher priority than -p
Ville Skyttä (1):
dircolors: update list of backup file extensions
thank you!
Pádraig
