I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.18 of GNU findutils. This is a bugfix release; the list of bugs fixed appears below.
GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". This is a "stable" release of findutils. It can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils. The ftp.gnu.org site is very busy, so you may find it more convenient to download findutils from one of the mirror sites listed at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. The previous stable release of findutils was version 4.2.15 (versions 4.2.16 and 4.2.17 were available only on alpha.gnu.org). More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. Version 4.2.18 of findutils was previously available from alpha.gnu.org. This release is the identical file; the only difference is that it is now available on ftp.gnu.org. All releases of findutils are digitally signed; the GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) keyring containing the keys used to sign all GNU software packages on ftp.gnu.org can be downloaded from the GNU Project's FTP site at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg. More information on the GNU Privacy Guard can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/. Bugs in GNU findutils should be reported to the findutils bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils. Reporting bugs via the web interface will ensure that you are automatically informed when the bug has been fixed. General discussion of findutils takes place on the bug-findutils mailing list. To join the 'bug-findutils' mailing list, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. * Major changes in release 4.2.18 ** Bug Fixes *** "find -depth" was missing out non-leaf directories when they contain non-directories. This affected findutils releases 4.2.15, 4.2.16 and 4.2.17, but the bug is now fixed. *** Find no longer hangs on systems which are clients of unresponsive NFS servers. ** Documentation improvements *** Improvements and corrections to the find.1 manpage, including corrections to the descriptions of -H and -L. * Major changes in release 4.2.17 ** Bug Fixes *** bug #11861 undefined symbol "basename" on IRIX 5.3 *** bug #11865 xargs -i regression (as compared to findutils-4.2.12) *** bug #11866 Typo in pred_okdir renders it useless (affecting 4.2.16 only) *** patch #3723 fix recent process_top_path change (for -execdir on /) *** Fixing bug #11866 and applying patch #3723 made -execdir work much better. *** find bar/baz/ugh now works again if baz is a symbolic link (broken in 4.2.15). * Major changes in release 4.2.16 ** Functionality Changes *** Updated the message catalogues for the translated messages. *** The subfs filesystem is now treated the same as the autofs filesystem is. *** New translations: Belarusian, Catalan, Greek, Esperanto, Finnish, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Japanese, Luganda, Malay, Romanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Chinese (simplified). ** Bug Fixes *** The -execdir action now works correctly for files named on the command line. I would like to thank Dmitry V. Levin, Bas van Gompel, Peter Breitenlohner, Jim Meyering, Karl Berry and Andreas Metzler for their recent help. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
