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idutils-4.5 released [stable]

Item posted by Jim Meyering <meyering> on Thu 17 Jun 2010 07:21:56 AM UTC.


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 been almost four years since the preceding stable
release, idutils-4.2.  Since *then* there have been interesting changes.
See the NEWS below for a summary.

Here are the compressed sources:
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/idutils/idutils-4.5.tar.gz   (1.5MB)
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/idutils/idutils-4.5.tar.xz   (868KB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/idutils/idutils-4.5.tar.gz.sig
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/idutils/idutils-4.5.tar.xz.sig

To reduce load on the main server, use a mirror listed at:
  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

[*] You can use either of the above signature files 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 idutils-4.5.tar.gz.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 000BEEEE

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.65.88-7f65b
  Automake 1.11a
  Gnulib v0.0-4005-gb96ebff

==============================================================
NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 4.5 (2010-06-17) [stable]

* Noteworthy changes in release 4.4 (2009-10-30) [beta]

** New features

  mkid and xtokid accept a new option --files0-from=FILE, to make them
  process only the files named in FILE.  FILE must contain a list of
  NUL-terminated file names.

** Bug fixes

  mkid and xtokid now accept language specific options via the command line.


* Noteworthy changes in release 4.3.92 (2008-10-18) [beta]

** Bug fixes

  fid: avoid a buffer overrun
  handle failed allocation, e.g., by strdup
  avoid potential realloc overflow
  mkid: avoid an infloop on some .el files
  all programs: detect write error on stdout

** Miscellaneous improvements

  revamp code and infrastructure, bringing it closer to coreutils' standards
  add automatically-generated man pages
  mkid recognize more suffixes: .ac, .mk, .bz2, .lzma.


 

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