I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.20 of GNU findutils. This is another bugfix release; the list of bugs fixes 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 4.2.18 (version 4.2.19 was available only on alpha.gnu.org). The 'recent changes' described below include all the significant changes made since the 4.2.18 release. More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. 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]>. To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public key of the findutils maintainer, James Youngman. You can download this from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg. Alternatively, you could query a PGP keyserver, but you will need to use one that can cope with subkeys containing photos. Many older key servers cannot do this. I use subkeys.pgp.net. I think that one works. See also the "Downloading" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. * Major changes in release 4.2.20 ** Internationalization and Localization Updated Vietnamese and Dutch translations. ** Bug Fixes Minor bugfix affecting only those who compile from the CVS repository, as opposed to those who compile from the source releases. * Major changes in release 4.2.19 ** Bug Fixes find should now no longer hang on systems which lack the O_NOFOLLOW flag to open(2) and which are clients of an unresponsive NFS server (Savannah bug #12044). We now avoid inappropriately failing for "find -L foo" or "find -H foo" if foo is a symbolic link (Savannah bug #12181). Previously we used to fail with the error message "Too many levels of symbolic links". "find . -false -exec foo {} +" no longer runs an extra instance of foo when find exits (Savannah bug #12230). If the chdir() safety check fails but we can no longer get back to where we started, exit with an explanatory (fatal) error message. This does not happen on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD because the safety check is not needed (the security problem the safety check protects against is prevented in a cleaner way on those systems). "make distclean" no longer deletes regex.c (which "make all" needs). ** Functionality Changes "find -printf "%h\n" will now print "." for files in the current directory. Previously it printed nothing (but there was a bug in the %h implementation anyway). This fixes Savannah bug #12085. Should now build (again) on non-C99-compliant systems. ** Documentation enhancements Fixed some typos and clarified wording in "Working with automounters". ** Internationalization and Localization New Vietnamese message translation. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
