This is to announce diffutils-3.8, a stable release. There have been 47 commits by 5 people in the 2.6 years since 3.7.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Bruno Haible (2)
Dave Odell (1)
Jim Meyering (23)
KO Myung-Hun (1)
Paul Eggert (20)
Jim [on behalf of the diffutils maintainers]
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Here is the GNU diffutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/diffutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=diffutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v3.8
or run this command from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
git shortlog v3.7..v3.8
To summarize the 2453 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
git checkout v3.8
git submodule summary v3.7
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz.sig
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify diffutils-3.8.tar.xz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.71
Automake 1.16d
Gnulib v0.1-4758-gb48905892
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 3.8 (2021-08-01) [stable]
** Incompatible changes
diff no longer treats a closed stdin as representing an absent file
in usage like 'diff --new-file - foo <&-'. This feature was rarely
if ever used and was not portable to POSIX platforms that reopen
stdin on exec, such as SELinux if the process underwent an AT_SECURE
transition, or HP-UX even if not setuid.
[bug#33965 introduced in 2.8]
** Bug fixes
diff and related programs no longer get confused if stdin, stdout,
or stderr are closed. Previously, they sometimes opened files into
file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 and then mistakenly did I/O with them
that was intended for stdin, stdout, or stderr.
[bug#33965 present since "the beginning"]
cmp, diff and sdiff no longer treat negative command-line
option-arguments as if they were large positive numbers.
[bug#35256 introduced in 2.8]
Also announced here:
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10031
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