We plan to release coreutils-9.5 in the coming week
so any testing you can do on various different systems
between now and then would be most welcome.
This release comes about 30 weeks after the 9.4 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) = c02ee9334bc0ca33055d9b0e3523ada2
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To test, follow this standard procedure:
tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
cd coreutils-9.4.170-7b206/
./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
Failures are shown, 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 v0.1-7239-gaf32ee824e
Bison 3.8.2
Changes in coreutils since v9.4 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:
Aearil (1):
wc: fix -w with breaking space over UCHAR_MAX
Bruno Haible (2):
sort: make the startup time optimization effective on glibc < 2.34
join: avoid test failure on systems with no French UTF-8 locale
Christian Göttsche (1):
copy,install: avoid unnecessary security context translations
Collin Funk (4):
maint: avoid -Wshadow warning under clang
maint: prefer #include <...> for gnulib substitute headers
doc: add basic documentation for 'pinky'
maint: prefer minmax.h instead of defining our own
Daan De Meyer (1):
cp: add --keep-directory-symlink option
Greg Wooledge (1):
doc: fix typo in shred example
Grisha Levit (2):
build: strengthen 16 bit float support checks
env,kill,timeout: support unnamed signals
Michel Lind (1):
dircolors: update list of archive file extensions
Paul Eggert (89):
maint: remove need for mbsalign
maint: remove rename macro
kill: rely on Gnulib strsignal
maint: use modern Gnulib LIB_ macros
maint: rely on Gnulib fdatasync
maint: regularize struct initializers
maint: tune for single thread & locale
maint: assume non-rare encodings
maint: Gnulib module gc
chown: port to mingw and MSVC 14
maint: simplify set_owner
cp,mv,install: fix chown on Linux CIFS
cp,mv,install: fix chmod on Linux CIFS
cp,mv,install: a bit more up-to-date source stat
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
maint: prefer psame_inode, PSAME_INODE, STP_*
cp,mv,install: simplify copy_internal
cp,mv,install: fix comment punctuation
cp,mv,install: minor copy_internal refactoring
cp: avoid needless unlinkat after fstatat ELOOP
cp,mv,install: add copy_internal comment
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
expr: use mcel
wc: stop worrying about EBCDIC, shift-JIS, etc
maint: prefer mcel
maint: use mbszero
wc: avoid undefined conversion state
wc: simplify #if MB_LEN_MAX
maint: prefer char32_t to wchar_t
sort: not a special case for mbrtowc
maint: omit some unused function tests
wc: fix word count bug
wc: treat encoding errors as non white space
wc: 3× speedup in C locale
wc: simplify by removing SUPPORT_OLD_MBRTOWC
doc: mention Unicode exceptions for wc
factor,tail: avoid quadratic reallocation
wc: improve avx2 API
wc: prefer signed integers
wc: goto considered harmful
wc: distribute src/wc.h
wc: pacify ‘make syntax-check’
sort: improve --help
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
basenc: tweak checks to use unsigned char
basenc: fix unlikely locale issue; tune
maint: prefer c_isxdigit when that is the intent
digest: omit unnecessary b2sum includes
maint: move field_sep into separate module
maint: include ctype.h selectively
maint: port to oddball tolower
dircolors: assume C-locale spaces
stdbuf: port to oddball toupper
test: allow non-blank white space in numbers
join,uniq: support multi-byte separators
maint: copy join, uniq tests from Fedora
maint: pacify ‘make syntax-check’
join: fix recently introduced NUL bug
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
maint: port randread to FreeBSD 14
pinky: fix string size calculation
maint: DECIMAL_DIGIT_ACCUMULATE uses stdckdint.h
uniq: prefer signed integers
uniq: simplify and fix unlikely bug by using bool
uniq: prefer static init
uniq: change macro to function
tests: omit inapplicable test code
uniq: fix bug with -w in multibyte locales
split: omit bad_cast
ls: omit bad_cast
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
maint: pacify clang -Winclude-next-absolute-path
maint: pacify recent clang better
split: do not shrink hold buffer
seq: say why not ‘x += step’
maint: remove unneeded suggest-attributes pragmas
maint: document fix for GCC bug 109628
maint: update GCC version comment
ls: remove unnecessary pragmas
nohup: document GCC bug number
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
doc: de-“note” the documentation
sort: dynamically link -lcrypto if -R
doc: mention -lcrypto change in NEWS
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
mv: new option --exchange
doc: clarify mv --exchange
cp,ln,mv: improve dir vs nondir diagnostics
mv: treat --exchange more like non-exchange
Petr Malat (1):
mv: add --swap (-x) option to atomically swap 2 paths
Pádraig Brady (59):
maint: post-release administrivia
maint: avoid syntax check failure
doc: add subsections for cksum nodes
maint: use C99 int size specifiers rather than PRI.MAX defines
build: avoid build failures on gcc <= 10, or clang
doc: rm --help: mention that '.' or '..' are rejected
basenc: auto pad base32 and base64 inputs when decoding
tests: move all basenc tests to their own directory
doc: fix RFC references
basenc: --base16: support lower case hex digits
basenc: --base16: also allow lower case with --ignore-garbage
base32,base64: disallow non-canonical encodings
maint: fix syntax check issue
ls: fix recent regression in size alignment
numfmt: support lowercase 'k' for Kilo and Kibi
doc: touch: clarify --time description in man page
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
maint: add list/obstack.h to .gitignore
doc: ls: fix regression in -f description
maint: remove obsolete AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL
chgrp: add --from parameter similar to chown
doc: cp --no-clobber: improve documentation
maint: avoid false positive warning with newer gcc
build: update gnulib to latest
maint: merge chgrp and chown sources
maint: distribute new header from previous commit
tests: run locale tests on more systems
tests: numfmt: fix test related to lower case 'k' SI unit
sort: fix thousands grouping handling on single byte locales
maint: update all copyright year number ranges
tests: make ulimit -v interact better with ASAN
doc: split -C: test and document a heap overflow
od: support half precision floating point
build: fix od build on clang < 17
doc: add '[' to the info index
maint: avoid sc_tight_scope failure in sort.c
build: fix libcrypto version linked by sort at runtime
cp,mv: reinstate that -n exits with success if files skipped
cp,mv: add --update=none-fail to fail if existing files
build: improve libcrypto library detection
tests: simplify treatment of the $LOCALE_FR_UTF8 variable
tests: move join tests to their own directory
cat,cp,mv,dd,install,split: set the default IO size to 256KiB
doc: fix spellings in NEWS
cksum: consistently validate --length attributes
mv: revert add --swap (-x) option
cksum: ensure appropriate "binary" mode with --untagged
timeout: fix race where we might kill arbitrary processes
timeout: fix narrow race in failing to kill processes
build: add caching for involved configure checks
build: provide a cross-compiling default for 16 bit float checks
doc: fix stale --dereference info for chown/chgrp
pinky: disable location canonicalization by default
maint: basenc: consistently check buffer bounds when encoding
chmod: add support for -h, -H,-L,-P, --dereference options
chmod: fix TOCTOU security issue with symlink replacement
doc: pr: give solution to expanding TABs in multicolumn output
env: add -a,--argv0 to set the first argument passed to exec
doc: remove older ChangeLog items
Samuel Tardieu (1):
maint: add attributes to two functions without side effects
Stephen Kitt (1):
tail: allow multiple PIDs
Sylvestre Ledru (3):
tests: improve ls --dired testing
ls: --dired now implies long format with hyperlinks disabled
tests: ls: add a test to verify that '+' is added
Ville Skyttä (1):
dircolors: add more archive extensions
dann frazier (1):
tail: fix tailing sysfs files where PAGE_SIZE > BUFSIZ
lvgenggeng (1):
mktemp: fix template diagnostic with --suffix
thank you!
Pádraig
