An updated package, coreutils-8.5-1 release has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you, leaving coreutils 8.4-2 as previous.
NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release, with upstream details listed below. It also includes a change to base64 to always operate in binary mode on input even on text mounts. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. Help in porting the stdbuf utility to cygwin would be appreciated. DESCRIPTION: ============ GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment. It comprises the former textutils, sh-utils, and fileutils packages. The following executables are included: [ arch base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold gkill groups head hostid hostname id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions, and look for 'coreutils' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.5 (2010-04-23) [stable] ** Bug fixes cp and mv once again support preserving extended attributes. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.4] cp now preserves "capabilities" when also preserving file ownership. ls --color once again honors the 'NORMAL' dircolors directive. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.11] sort -M now handles abbreviated months that are aligned using blanks in the locale database. Also locales with 8 bit characters are handled correctly, including multi byte locales with the caveat that multi byte characters are matched case sensitively. sort again handles obsolescent key formats (+POS -POS) correctly. Previously if -POS was specified, 1 field too many was used in the sort. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.2] ** New features join now accepts the --header option, to treat the first line of each file as a header line to be joined and printed unconditionally. timeout now accepts the --kill-after option which sends a kill signal to the monitored command if it's still running the specified duration after the initial signal was sent. who: the "+/-" --mesg (-T) indicator of whether a user/tty is accepting messages could be incorrectly listed as "+", when in fact, the user was not accepting messages (mesg no). Before, who would examine only the permission bits, and not consider the group of the TTY device file. Thus, if a login tty's group would change somehow e.g., to "root", that would make it unwritable (via write(1)) by normal users, in spite of whatever the permission bits might imply. Now, when configured using the --with-tty-group[=NAME] option, who also compares the group of the TTY device with NAME (or "tty" if no group name is specified). ** Changes in behavior ls --color no longer emits the final 3-byte color-resetting escape sequence when it would be a no-op. join -t '' no longer emits an error and instead operates on each line as a whole (even if they contain NUL characters).
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