coreutils-5.92 released [stable]

2005-10-23 Thread Jim Meyering
The GNU coreutils package contains the following programs: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head hostid hostname id join kill link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfi

coreutils-5.93 released [stable]

2005-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
This is a stable, bug-fix-only release. Most of the changes since 5.92 are summarized below. Development will continue on the trunk (6.x), probably with an eventual bug-fix release or two from the 5.9x branch. The GNU coreutils package contains the following programs: [ basename cat chgrp chmod

coreutils-5.94 released [stable]

2006-02-14 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The GNU coreutils package contains the following programs: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head hostid hostname id jo

coreutils-5.95 released

2006-05-13 Thread Jim Meyering
The GNU coreutils package contains the following programs: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head hostid hostname id join kill link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfif

coreutils-5.96 released

2006-05-22 Thread Jim Meyering
The GNU coreutils package contains the following programs: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head hostid hostname id join kill link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfif

coreutils-5.97 released

2006-06-24 Thread Jim Meyering
This is a stable release. Two points are worth special mention. I built it using autoconf tools from cvs of June 23. Normally, I would not use development infrastructure to create a stable coreutils release, but since autoconf-2.60 is so near, and since I did it for 5.96, too, I think it's a goo

coreutils-6.0 released

2006-08-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.0 has been released. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ Coreutils development branched after the stable 5.92 release. Since then, there have been five releases from the stable branch: 5.93

coreutils-6.3 released (stable)

2006-09-30 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.3 has been released. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: . This is a stable release. Changes since 6.2 have been solely to fix bugs and to improve portability and robustness. A summary of

coreutils-6.4 released (stable)

2006-10-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.4 has been released. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: . This is a stable release. Changes since 6.3 have been solely to fix bugs and to improve portability and robustness. A summary of

coreutils-6.5 released (stable)

2006-11-19 Thread Jim Meyering
If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: . This is a stable release. There has been only one significant bug fix since the last release, but it's an important one, affecting recursive traversals by chmod, chgrp, ch

coreutils-6.6 released [stable. Yes, really, this time.]

2006-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
The version of ls in coreutils-6.5 had a serious bug. For example, "ls -l" would segfault when processing a file whose numeric user ID or group ID has no associated name. As usual, details are in the ChangeLog files, but note that for changes in Gnulib-owned files (as most were, this time), the C

coreutils-6.7 released

2006-12-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.7 has been released. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: . There were still some significant bugs in coreutils-6.6, so this is yet another bug-fix-only release. For details, see the NEWS s

coreutils-6.9 released [stable]

2007-03-22 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coreutils version 6.9 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix-only release. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: . The previous stable release was 6.7, on Dec

coreutils-6.9.90 released

2007-12-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.9.90 has been released. This is a feature release, but it includes a surprising number of fixes for very old bugs. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: . It's been more than 8 months and alm

coreutils-6.9.91 released (bug-fix-only)

2007-12-16 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coreutils version 6.9.91 has been released. This is a bug-fix-only release. There has been unusually few reports of problems with the previous release. I hope this is a trend. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to s

coreutils-6.9.92 released

2008-01-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.9.92 has been released. This is a bug-fix-only release. I expect the next release to be coreutils-6.10, with a well-deserved "stable" rating. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release. For a summary of changes and contributors, see here: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gi

coreutils-6.10 released (stable)

2008-01-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.10 has been released. This is a stable release. Since the previous stable release, 6.9, there have been three test releases: 6.9.90,91,92 and almost 500 change sets in coreutils proper. That doesn't include the 1100+ change sets in gnulib (most of the files in coreutils/{lib,m

coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.11 has been released. This is a stable release. Since 6.10, there have been 200 change sets in coreutils proper and almost 300 in gnulib (most of the files in coreutils/{lib,m4} come from gnulib). Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release. This time, a trio from

coreutils-6.12 released

2008-06-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.12 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v6.12 or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory: git shortlog v6.11..v6.12 To summarize the g

coreutils-7.0 released (beta)

2008-10-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 7.0 has been released. Considering the two new programs, and that several of the existing programs acquired new options or other non-trivial improvements, this qualifies as a feature release and gets the "beta" label. However, most changes have been local and well-tested. For a

coreutils-7.1 released [stable]

2009-02-22 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-7.1, a release we're calling "stable", because we think it's solid enough for general use. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v7.1 or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory: gi

coreutils-7.2 released [stable]

2009-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-7.2, a "stable" release. While there is a nominal feature addition, it affects only "pwd", and the program from coreutils typically shadows the shell built-in, so few use it. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.g

coreutils-7.3 released [stable]

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-7.3, a "stable" release. It is mainly to fix the sort -m -o regression, but there have been a few other interesting fixes and improvements. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v7.3 or run this co

coreutils-7.4 released [stable]

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-7.4, a "stable" release. It fixes a 7.3-release-related snafu and a minor, but long-standing bug in date. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v7.4 or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils

coreutils-7.5 released

2009-08-22 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-7.5, a "stable" release. We're calling it "stable" in spite of the fact that there is a new program, stdbuf, and there are some interesting new features. Thanks to everyone who has been helping! For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/g

vc-dwim-1.2 released

2009-09-09 Thread Jim Meyering
There have been a few vc-chlog enhancements, and one vc-dwim bug fix: In case you're wondering what this package does, see http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/ Very briefly, there are two tools: vc-dwim is a version-control-agnostic ChangeLog diff and commit tool. vc-chlog is a helper to

gzip-1.3.13 released [major]

2009-10-03 Thread Jim Meyering
There have been a few minor bug fixes as well as many build infrastructure updates. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gzip.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.3.13 or run this command from a git-cloned gzip directory: git shortlog v1.3.12..v1.3.13 Here are the co

coreutils-8.0 released [beta]

2009-10-06 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.0. We're calling this a beta release partly because rm has been rewritten (now it uses gnulib's fts for its hierarchy traversal), and partly because there have been so many changes in the gnulib infrastructure involving file-system primitives. Thanks to everyone who

parted-2.0 released [beta]

2009-10-06 Thread Jim Meyering
GNU Parted is a partition table editor. While most of the changes since parted-1.9.0 were to make it support disks with larger-than-512-byte sectors, there have been a few bug fixes, too. The former changes are big enough that we're calling this a beta release

gzip-1.3.14 released [beta]

2009-11-02 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce a beta release of gzip. http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ Actually I'm convinced that this is production quality software, but there has been so little feedback, I'm going to err on the side of caution and call it "beta". Besides, there were a few portability problems wit

coreutils-8.1 released [stable]

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.1. We consider it to be "stable" in spite of a few new features, a new program and minor changes in behavior. Eric Blake deserves special thanks for making an impressive number of improvements to the portability and robu

coreutils-8.2 released [stable]

2009-12-11 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.2. This is a bug-fix-only "stable" release. Not only does this release fix a few bugs in the tools, but it fixes two exploitable bugs in the build rules. One (the "make dist" vulnerability) was fixed by regenerating all Makefile.in files using a fixed version of au

parted-2.1 released [stable]

2009-12-21 Thread Jim Meyering
While this release adds some features, they are new interfaces or changes enabled only via a new option, or via the presence of a new on-disk bit. As such, they should be "safe" enough that I can still call this a stable release. Special thanks to Hans De Goede for numerous fixes and additions. F

coreutils-8.3 released [stable]

2010-01-09 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.3, a bug-fix-only "stable" release. This release fixes an eclectic mix of bugs, mostly subtle and tricky to reproduce, from tail races to work-arounds for file-system-specific kernel bugs and for misbehavior that is seen only if you have a bleeding edge glibc fix th

coreutils-8.4 released [stable]

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.4, a bug-fix-only "stable" release. The main purpose of this release is to fix a build failure on some systems using glibc-2.7..2.9. Here's the GNU Coreutils home page, in case you're wondering what it is: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ Thanks to everyo

gzip-1.4 released [stable/security]

2010-01-20 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce a stable release of the gzip compression tools. The most important change is the one that addresses CVE-2010-0001, mentioned in NEWS below. http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gzip.git;a=shortl

diffutils-2.9 released [stable]

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce diffutils-2.9. I'm calling it stable because not much has changed, in spite of the long interval since the last release. Here's the diffutils home page, in case you're wondering what it is: http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/ *** Note these are not the usual URLs ***

parted-2.2 released [stable]

2010-02-26 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce parted-2.2, a stable release. Here's its soon-to-be-updated home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ Thanks to everyone else who has been contributing, helping to manage the mailing list and reporting bugs. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://gi

cppi-1.14 released [stable]

2010-03-03 Thread Jim Meyering
GNU cppi is a cpp directive indenter. Its documentation is no more than its --help output (included below). It converts unindented (or inconsistently indented) code like this: #ifdef ... #if defined ... || defined ... #define a b #else #define a c #endif #endif to thi

cppi-1.15 released [stable]

2010-03-18 Thread Jim Meyering
The only significant change didn't make it into NEWS: cppi now generates a .pot file, so the next release will ship with translated messages. Here are the compressed sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cppi/cppi-1.15.tar.xz (412KB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu

grep-2.6 released [stable]

2010-03-23 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce grep-2.6. grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. This release fixes an unexpectedly large number of flaws, from outright bugs (surprisingly many, considering this is "grep") to some occasionally debilitating performance problems. Special thanks to Paolo Bonzini fo

grep-2.6.1 released [stable]

2010-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce grep-2.6.1. grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. It's been barely two days since the release of 2.6, but... This release fixes two new bugs as well as one that was introduced in grep-2.5.2. There were also some build, portability and test fixes. Special thanks

grep-2.6.2 released [stable]

2010-03-30 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce grep-2.6.2. grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. It's been only a few days since the release of 2.6.1, but... This release fixes at least two new bugs as well as one that dates back to the beginning. There were also some build, portability and test fixes. Detai

grep-2.6.3 released [stable]

2010-04-02 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce grep-2.6.3. grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. Some are probably wondering... What?!? That makes four, (yes, 4!) releases in 11 days. Can't you guys get it right? Time will tell. This release fixes another fgrep-infloop bug as well as a build-vs-PC

coreutils-8.5 released [stable]

2010-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.5, a bug-fix-only "stable" release. This is a good time for a release. It's been over three months, during which we've seen a few bug fixes. In addition, a few features are nearly ready, and it is good to get a stable release out before adding those to the mix. Her

diffutils-3.0 released [stable]

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce diffutils-3.0, a stable release, with only three items in NEWS and 30 change-sets (most build/test/maintenance-related). There have been hundreds of improvements in gnulib, but that should have little effect on diffutils, unless your system is old or unusual. Here's the diffuti

parted-2.3 released [stable]

2010-05-29 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce parted-2.3, a stable release. This is mainly a bug-fix release. Each of the three "feature additions" is small and safe-looking. Here's its home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ Thanks to everyone who has been contributing. Here are the compressed sources: ftp

idutils-4.5 released [stable]

2010-06-17 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce a stable release of idutils. The idutils package contains tools to create and efficiently search an index of "identifiers" from specified files: http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/ Since 4.4 (beta) there have been build and portability improvements, but little else. It's

grep-2.7 released [stable]

2010-09-20 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce grep-2.7. grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. This release fixes a few bug fixes and includes two features. See the NEWS below, or for a more complete summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.7 or run

coreutils-8.6 released [stable]

2010-10-15 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.6, a "stable" release. It's been over five months, with 200 change-sets in coreutils and 550 in gnulib. There have been a handful of new features (all relatively safe, imho), several bug fixes, and numerous minor "changes in behavior". See NEWS below for a summary

vc-dwim-1.3 released [stable]

2010-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
This release includes the bug fix mentioned below and a portability tweak, but not much else. In case you're wondering what this package does, see http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/ Very briefly, there are two tools: vc-dwim is a version-control-agnostic ChangeLog diff and commit tool.

coreutils-8.7 released [stable]

2010-11-13 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.7, a stable, bug-fix-only release. It's been a month since coreutils-8.6 with 37 change-sets in coreutils proper and 59 in gnulib. This was supposed to have been a snap release solely to revert the stat %[XYZ] time stamp handling change introduced in 8.6, but that

coreutils-8.8 released [stable]

2010-12-22 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.8, a stable, bug-fix release. There are numerous fixes for our newly-parallelized sort. The only significant non-bug-fix change was to add a useful set of features to split that lets you split input into N roughly-equal pieces, with options to split on line boundari

coreutils-8.9 released [stable]

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.9, a stable, bug-fix release. The sole bug was in split, introduced in 8.8. See NEWS below for a summary. Here's the GNU Coreutils home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers] Here are the compressed sources:

coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-05 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.10, a stable release. There have been some minor bug fixes, along with two new features. The join feature is enabled via a new option, "-o auto". The cp feature makes copying sparse files much more efficient on several common file systems. It takes advantage of a

vc-dwim-1.4 released [stable]

2011-03-19 Thread Jim Meyering
There are only two changes listed in NEWS, so here they are: vc-chlog can now handle two-word function names like "operator delete" vc-chlog now accepts --dirty-workdir for 'git add -i' workflows. Thanks to Ralf Wildenhues for the new option. Here are the compressed sources: http://ftp.gnu

coreutils-8.11 released [stable]

2011-04-13 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce coreutils-8.11, a stable release. This time we have an interesting variety of bug fixes, two new features for "dd", and a few "changes in behavior". See NEWS below for a brief summary. Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers

coreutils-8.12 released [stable]

2011-04-26 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce coreutils-8.12, a stable release. We released coreutils-8.11 less than two weeks ago. Why a new release so soon? Because under unusual conditions, coreutils-8.11's copying code could cause trouble. Data loss trouble. The troubl

grep-2.8 released [stable]

2011-05-13 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce grep-2.8. grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. This release fixes three bugs. See the NEWS below, or for a more complete summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=short

parted-2.4 released [stable]

2011-05-18 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce parted-2.4, a stable bug-fix release. See the NEWS below for a summary of noteworthy changes. Here is Parted's home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ For a summary of all changes and contributors, see: http://git.

vc-dwim-1.5 released [stable]

2011-05-20 Thread Jim Meyering
I fixed an annoying long-standing bug (details below), so here's 1.5. In case you're wondering what this package does, see http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/ Very briefly, there are two tools: vc-dwim is a version-control-agnostic ChangeLog diff and commit tool. vc-chlog is a helper too

parted-3.0 released [stable]

2011-05-30 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce parted-3.0, a release that removes the deprecated file-system-manipulation capabilities. See the NEWS below for a summary of noteworthy changes. Here is Parted's home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ For a summary

grep-2.9 released [stable]

2011-06-22 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce grep-2.9, a bug-fix release. Well, there is one "enhancement" that might be seen as fixing a performance bug: grep is faster on regular expressions that match multibyte characters in brackets (such as '[áéíóú]'). Thanks

diffutils-3.1 released [stable]

2011-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce diffutils-3.1, a stable, bug-fix release. There have been more than 50 build, test and portability-related changes in diffutils proper, as well as over 2100 in gnulib. In spite of all that, there have been only a few bug fixes, an

diffutils-3.2 released [stable]

2011-09-02 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce diffutils-3.2, a stable, bug-fix release. Not much has changed on the surface (see the NEWS, below), but we have inherited more than 50 change-sets via gnulib. Here's the diffutils home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/diffu

coreutils-8.14 released [stable]

2011-10-12 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce coreutils-8.14, a stable release. With three bug fixes in less than a month, one for a regression introduced in coreutils-8.13, it was time for a new release. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has c

grep-2.10 released [stable]

2011-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is to announce grep-2.10, a bug-fix release. http://www.gnu.org/s/grep/ grep searches files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern It's been nearly five months and 80 commits since 2.9, yet few big changes in grep proper.

vc-dwim-1.6 released [stable]

2011-12-23 Thread Jim Meyering
It's been six months and a few bug fixes, here's 1.6: In case you're wondering what this package does, see http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/ Very briefly, there are two tools: vc-dwim is a version-control-agnostic ChangeLog diff and commit tool. vc-chlog is a helper tool for writing GN

coreutils-8.15 released [stable]

2012-01-06 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.15, yet another stable release. There have been over 120 commits by 12 people in the 12 weeks since 8.14. This adds a new program, realpath, and several bug fixes. Reassuringly, the trend continues: most fixes are for bugs off in the dusty corners of the code, and f

cppi-1.16 released [stable]

2012-01-26 Thread Jim Meyering
GNU cppi is a cpp directive indenter. It converts unindented (or inconsistently indented) code like this: #ifdef ... #if defined ... || defined ... #define a b #else #define a c #endif #endif to this, without modifying non-cpp lines. #ifdef ... # if defined ..

idutils-4.6 released [stable]

2012-02-03 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce a stable release of idutils. The idutils package contains tools to create and efficiently search an index of "identifiers" from specified files: http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/ Since 4.5 there have been two bug fixes and some build and portability improvements inherit

grep-2.11 released [stable]

2012-03-03 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce grep-2.11, a bug-fix release. http://www.gnu.org/s/grep/ grep searches files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern In just 2.5 months, we've seen more changes than in the five months leading up to 2.10, addressing a surprising number of old bugs. Special

parted-3.1 released [stable]

2012-03-03 Thread Jim Meyering
est for GPT PMBR pmbr_boot flag doc: update parted documentation Christoph Hellwig (1): tests: add FS-resize test driver H. Peter Anvin (1): libparted: simplify kernel version-parsing logic Jim Meyering (90): post-release administrivia libparted: accommodate

coreutils-8.16 released [stable]

2012-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! I'll be listing committers here, from now on. These people contributed changes to this release[*]: Bernhard Voelker (4) Eric Blake (7) Harald Hoyer (1) Jim Meyering (44) Jérémy Compostella (11) Paul Eggert (5) Pádraig Brad

grep-2.12 released [stable]

2012-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
the use of gnulib's fts and the change to how -r (--recursive) works. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Allan McRae (1) Jim Meyering (17) Paul Eggert (4) Jim [on behalf of the g

coreutils-8.17 released [stable]

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Meyering
release: Andreas Schwab (1) Bernhard Voelker (2) Bruce Korb (1) Jim Meyering (38) Karl Berry (1) Kevin Lyda (1) Paul Eggert (4) Pádraig Brady (4) Stefano Lattarini (1) Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers] == Here

gzip-1.5 released [stable]

2012-06-18 Thread Jim Meyering
release: Dmitry V. Levin (3) Eric Blake (3) Jim Meyering (84) Mark Adler (1) Paul Eggert (24) Paul R. Eggert (2) Rob Vermaas (1) Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers] == Here is the GNU gzip home page: http

grep-2.13 released [stable]

2012-07-04 Thread Jim Meyering
output. There have been 24 commits by 4 people in the 10 weeks since 2.12. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Aharon Robbins (2) Jim Meyering (12) Paolo Bonzini (3) Paul Eggert (7) Jim [o

cppi-1.17 released [stable]

2012-08-05 Thread Jim Meyering
release: Akim Demaille (2) Jim Meyering (26) Jim [on behalf of the cppi maintainers] == Here is the GNU cppi home page: http://gnu.org/s/cppi/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb

coreutils-8.18 released [stable]

2012-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
"the beginning") and relatively obscure bugs. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Andrew D Warshall (1) Bernhard Voelker (4) Bruno Haible (1) Erik Auerswald (1) Jim Meyering

coreutils-8.19 released (fixes sort -u data loss bugs)

2012-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
changes to this release: Bernhard Voelker (1) Jim Meyering (9) Krzysztof Goj (1) Paul Eggert (2) Special thanks to Rasmus Borup Hansen for reporting the sort -u problem along with a reproducer, and to Paul Eggert for spotting the second bug and for his minimal patch that fixed both bugs

grep-2.14 released [stable]

2012-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
ple in the 7 weeks since 2.13. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Jim Meyering (12) Paul Eggert (5) Jim [on behalf of the grep m

vc-dwim-1.7 released [stable]

2013-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
This release fixes a minor bug with --author and bzr, and updates the slightly risky[*] Makefile.in files from the previous release. In case you're wondering what this package does, see http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/ Very briefly, there are two tools: vc-dwim is a version-control-agnost

cppi-1.18 released [stable]

2013-03-16 Thread Jim Meyering
below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Akim Demaille (1) Eric Blake (2) Jim Meyering (9) Jim [on behalf of the cppi maintainers] == Here is the

diffutils-3.3 released [stable]

2013-03-25 Thread Jim Meyering
following people contributed changes to this release: Andreas Gruenbacher (1) Bruno Haible (1) Claudio Bley (1) Eric Blake (2) Jim Meyering (18) Paul Eggert (18) Stefano Lattarini (3) Jim [on behalf of the diffutils maintainers

gzip-1.6 released [stable]

2013-06-09 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce gzip-1.6, a stable release. There have been 35 commits by 4 people in the 51 weeks since 1.5. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Eric Blake (1) Jim Meyering (15

grep-2.15 released [stable]

2013-10-26 Thread Jim Meyering
to this release: Corinna Vinschen (1) Eric Blake (2) Jaroslav Škarvada (1) Jim Meyering (31) Mike Haertel (1) Paolo Bonzini (3) Paul Eggert (15) Petr Pisar (1) Stefano Lattarini (2) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers

grep-2.16 released [stable]

2014-01-01 Thread Jim Meyering
een 23 commits by 3 people in the 10 weeks since 2.15. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Jim Meyering (21) Santiago Ruano Rincón (1) behoffski (1) Jim [on behalf of the grep maint

grep-2.17 released [stable]

2014-02-18 Thread Jim Meyering
below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Aharon Robbins (1) Benno Schulenberg (2) Jim Meyering (7) Mike Frysinger (1) Norihiro Tanaka (3) Paolo Bonzini (1) Paul Eggert (3) Pádraig Brady (1) Ji

grep-2.18 released [stable]

2014-02-21 Thread Jim Meyering
spotting grep-2.17's performance regression so quickly. The following people contributed changes to this release: Jim Meyering (5) Paul Eggert (2) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers] == Here is the GNU grep home page:

grep-2.19 released [stable]

2014-05-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Eggert for all of that work, as well as for numerous bug fixes. There have been 152 commits by 4 people in the 13 weeks since 2.18. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Jim Meyering (22) Norihiro

grep-2.20 released [stable]

2014-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
reports since grep-2.19. The following people contributed changes to this release: behoffski (1) Jim Meyering (6) Norihiro Tanaka (5) Paul Eggert (2) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers] == Here is the GNU grep home page

grep-2.21 released [stable]

2014-11-23 Thread Jim Meyering
release: Jim Meyering (26) Norihiro Tanaka (17) Paul Eggert (51) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers] == Here is the GNU grep home page: http://gnu.org/s/grep/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http

grep-2.22 released [stable]

2015-11-02 Thread Jim Meyering
to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Jim Meyering (34) Norihiro Tanaka (17) Paul Eggert (32) Santiago Ruano Rincón (1) Yuliy Pisetsky (1) Zev Weiss (1) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers

grep-2.23 released [stable]

2016-02-04 Thread Jim Meyering
summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Jim Meyering (14) Paul Eggert (21) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers] == Here is the GNU grep home page: http

grep-2.24 released [stable]

2016-03-11 Thread Jim Meyering
been 8 commits by 2 people in the 5 weeks since 2.23. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Jim Meyering (7) Paul Eggert (1) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers

gzip-1.7 released [stable]

2016-03-28 Thread Jim Meyering
release: Jason Leschnik (1) Jim Meyering (23) Paul Eggert (35) Rusty Russell (1) Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers] Here is the GNU gzip home page: http://gnu.org/s/gzip/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see

grep-2.25 released [stable]

2016-04-22 Thread Jim Meyering
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is to announce grep-2.25, a stable release. Yet another bug-fix release. This one was prompted primarily by the realization that even with LC_ALL=C, grep-2.24 could still report "Binary file F matches". Special thanks to Paul Eggert for doing s

gzip-1.8 released [stable]

2016-04-26 Thread Jim Meyering
: Jim Meyering (3) Paul Eggert (3) Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers] = Here is the GNU gzip home page: http://gnu.org/s/gzip/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gzip.git;a

diffutils-3.4 released [stable]

2016-08-08 Thread Jim Meyering
this release: Andreas Grünbacher (1) Giuseppe Scrivano (5) Glenn Morris (1) Jim Meyering (30) KO Myung-Hun (2) Paul Eggert (20) Stefano Lattarini (1) Special thanks to Giuseppe Scrivano for the new colorized-output option and to Paul Eggert for numerous bug fixes and improvements. Jim

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