We plan to release coreutils-9.5 in the next few days 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.
Changes since the last pre-release (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2024-03/msg00058.html) are as follows: build: update with gnulib fixes tests: numfmt: fix false failures on some systems ls: avoid ENOENT from readdir() on FreeBSD 14 tests: avoid false failure due to mismatched isblank() cp: with --no-preserve=mode ensure set-group-ID bits maintained on dirs tests: avoid false failure with partial locale info tests: avoid triggering obsolete tail option processing tests: remove debugging from a test tests: fix false failure on systems that can chmod symlinks doc: fix translation issue in chown/chgrp amalgamation doc: fix various translation issues test: avoid false failure with setgid directories tests: avoid false failure on new mv --exchange test doc: update THANKS related to env --argv0 option doc: ls: detail output format for device files -------------------------------------- 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) = 2a1eab11c7dcd9cee88181de0d7f1c78 -------------------------------------- To test follow this standard procedure: tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz cd coreutils-9.4.185-541b02/ ./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 thank you! Pádraig