I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.28 of GNU findutils. 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". More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.
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. This release includes a range of changes, including bugfixes, documentation improvements and small functional changes. All the changes since the previous stable release are summarised below. 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/. I would like to thank Geoff Clare, Andreas Metzler and Miloslav Trmac as well as the members of the bug-findutils mailing list for their help in preparing this release. * Major changes in release 4.2.28 ** Bug Fixes Savannah bug #15800: If find finds more subdirectories within a parent directory than it previously expected to based on the link count of the parent, the resulting error message now gives the correct directory name (previously an error message was issued but it specified the wrong directory). Savannah bug #16738: "find .... -exec ... {} +" now works if you have a large environment and many files must be passed to the -exec action. The same problem affected the -execdir action, though since the number of files in a given directory will normally be smaller, the problem was worse for -exec. Savannah bug #16579: Updatedb now works if it is running as a user whose login shell is not actually a shell. ** Translations The following translations have been updated: Vietnamese, Belarusian, Catalan, Danish, German, Greek, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Galician, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Luganda, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Bulgarian -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
