GNU Automake - News: automake-1.16.3 released [stable]

automake-1.16.3 released [stable]

Item posted by Jim Meyering <meyering> on Thu 19 Nov 2020 04:47:29 AM UTC.

This is to announce automake-1.16.3, a stable release.

There have been 62 commits by 15 people in the 35 weeks since 1.16.2.
Special thanks to Karl Berry and Zack Weinberg for doing so much of the work.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

  Akim Demaille (1)
  Colomban Wendling (1)
  Felix Yan (1)
  Issam E. Maghni (1)
  Jim Meyering (12)
  Karl Berry (23)
  Miro Hron\v{c}ok (1)
  Paul Eggert (4)
  Reuben Thomas (3)
  Robert Menteer (1)
  Robert Wanamaker (1)
  Samuel Tardieu (1)
  Samy Mahmoudi (1)
  Vincent Lefevre (1)
  Zack Weinberg (10)

Jim [on behalf of the automake maintainers]
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Here is the GNU automake home page:
    http://gnu.org/s/automake/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.16.3
or run this command from a git-cloned automake directory:
  git shortlog v1.16.2..v1.16.3

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.3.tar.xz (1.6MB)
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.3.tar.gz (2.3MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.3.tar.xz.sig
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.3.tar.gz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

[*] 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 automake-1.16.3.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.

Please report bugs and problems to <bug-automake@gnu.org>,
and send general comments and feedback to <automake@gnu.org>.

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NEWS

* New features added

  - In the testsuite summary, the "for $(PACKAGE_STRING)" suffix
    can be overridden with the AM_TESTSUITE_SUMMARY_HEADER variable.

* Bugs fixed

  - Python 3.10 version number no longer considered to be 3.1.

  - Broken links in manual fixed or removed, and new script
    contrib/checklinkx (a small modification of W3C checklink) added,
    with accompany target checklinkx to recheck urls.

  - install-exec target depends on $(BUILT_SOURCES).

  - valac argument matching more precise, to avoid garbage in DIST_COMMON.

  - Support for Vala in VPATH builds fixed so that both freshly-generated and
    distributed C files work, and operation is more reliable with or without
    an installed valac.

  - Dejagnu doesn't break on directories containing spaces.

* Distribution

  - new variable AM_DISTCHECK_DVI_TARGET, to allow overriding the
    "make dvi" that is done as part of distcheck.

* Miscellaneous changes

  - install-sh tweaks:
    . new option -p to preserve mtime, i.e., invoke cp -p.
    . new option -S SUFFIX to attempt backup files using SUFFIX.
    . no longer unconditionally uses -f when rm is overridden by RMPROG.
    . does not chown existing directories.

  - Removed function up_to_date_p in lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm.
    We believe this function is completely unused.

  - Support for in-tree Vala libraries improved.