This is to announce coreutils-9.4, a stable release.
This is a stabilization release coming about 19 weeks after the 9.3 release.
See the NEWS below for a summary of changes.
There have been 162 commits by 10 people in the 19 weeks since 9.3.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Andreas Schwab (1) Jim Meyering (1)
Bernhard Voelker (3) Paul Eggert (60)
Bruno Haible (11) Pádraig Brady (80)
Dragan Simic (3) Sylvestre Ledru (2)
Jaroslav Skarvada (1) Ville Skyttä (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v9.4
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v9.3..v9.4
Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.4.tar.gz (15MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.4.tar.xz (5.8MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
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Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
7dce42b8657e333ce38971d4ee512c4313b8f633 coreutils-9.4.tar.gz
X2ANkJOXOwr+JTk9m8GMRPIjJlf0yg2V6jHHAutmtzk= coreutils-9.4.tar.gz
7effa305c3f4bc0d40d79f1854515ebf5f688a18 coreutils-9.4.tar.xz
6mE6TPRGEjJukXIBu7zfvTAd4h/8O1m25cB+BAsnXlI= coreutils-9.4.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
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 coreutils-9.4.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096/0xDF6FD971306037D9 2011-09-23 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6C37 DC12 121A 5006 BC1D B804 DF6F D971 3060 37D9
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat@gnu.org>
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key P@draigBrady.com
gpg --recv-keys DF6FD971306037D9
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=coreutils&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify coreutils-9.4.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72c.32-cb6fb
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v0.1-6658-gbb5bb43a1e
Bison 3.8.2
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.4 (2023-08-29) [stable]
** Bug fixes
On GNU/Linux s390x and alpha, programs like 'cp' and 'ls' no longer
fail on files with inode numbers that do not fit into 32 bits.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
'b2sum --check' will no longer read unallocated memory when
presented with malformed checksum lines.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]
'cp --parents' again succeeds when preserving mode for absolute directories.
Previously it would have failed with a "No such file or directory" error.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]
'cp --sparse=never' will avoid copy-on-write (reflinking) and copy offloading,
to ensure no holes present in the destination copy.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
cksum again diagnoses read errors in its default CRC32 mode.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
'cksum --check' now ensures filenames with a leading backslash character
are escaped appropriately in the status output.
This also applies to the standalone checksumming utilities.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.25]
dd again supports more than two multipliers for numbers.
Previously numbers of the form '1024x1024x32' gave "invalid number" errors.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]
factor, numfmt, and tsort now diagnose read errors on the input.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
'install --strip' now supports installing to files with a leading hyphen.
Previously such file names would have caused the strip process to fail.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
ls now shows symlinks specified on the command line that can't be traversed.
Previously a "Too many levels of symbolic links" diagnostic was given.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
pinky, uptime, users, and who no longer misbehave on 32-bit GNU/Linux
platforms like x86 and ARM where time_t was historically 32 bits.
Also see the new --enable-systemd option mentioned below.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
'pr --length=1 --double-space' no longer enters an infinite loop.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
shred again operates on Solaris when built for 64 bits.
Previously it would have exited with a "getrandom: Invalid argument" error.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
tac now handles short reads on its input. Previously it may have exited
erroneously, especially with large input files with no separators.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
'uptime' no longer incorrectly prints "0 users" on OpenBSD,
and is being built again on FreeBSD and Haiku.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-9.2]
'wc -l' and 'cksum' no longer crash with an "Illegal instruction" error
on x86 Linux kernels that disable XSAVE YMM. This was seen on Xen VMs.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
** Changes in behavior
'cp -v' and 'mv -v' will no longer output a message for each file skipped
due to -i, or -u. Instead they only output this information with --debug.
I.e., 'cp -u -v' etc. will have the same verbosity as before coreutils-9.3.
'cksum -b' no longer prints base64-encoded checksums. Rather that
short option is reserved to better support emulation of the standalone
checksum utilities with cksum.
'mv dir x' now complains differently if x/dir is a nonempty directory.
Previously it said "mv: cannot move 'dir' to 'x/dir': Directory not empty",
where it was unclear whether 'dir' or 'x/dir' was the problem.
Now it says "mv: cannot overwrite 'x/dir': Directory not empty".
Similarly for other renames where the destination must be the problem.
[problem introduced in coreutils-6.0]
** Improvements
cp, mv, and install now avoid copy_file_range on linux kernels before 5.3
irrespective of which kernel version coreutils is built against,
reinstating that behavior from coreutils-9.0.
comm, cut, join, od, and uniq will now exit immediately upon receiving a
write error, which is significant when reading large / unbounded inputs.
split now uses more tuned access patterns for its potentially large input.
This was seen to improve throughput by 5% when reading from SSD.
split now supports a configurable $TMPDIR for handling any temporary files.
tac now falls back to '/tmp' if a configured $TMPDIR is unavailable.
'who -a' now displays the boot time on Alpine Linux, OpenBSD,
Cygwin, Haiku, and some Android distributions
'uptime' now succeeds on some Android distributions, and now counts
VM saved/sleep time on GNU (Linux, Hurd, kFreeBSD), NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Minix, and Cygwin.
On GNU/Linux platforms where utmp-format files have 32-bit timestamps,
pinky, uptime, and who can now work for times after the year 2038,
so long as systemd is installed, you configure with a new, experimental
option --enable-systemd, and you use the programs without file arguments.
(For example, with systemd 'who /var/log/wtmp' does not work because
systemd does not support the equivalent of /var/log/wtmp.)
This is to announce coreutils-9.3, a stable release.
This is a bug fix release coming about 4 weeks after the 9.2 release.
See the NEWS below for a summary of changes.
There have been 26 commits by 3 people in the 29 days since 9.2.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Nick Alcock (1)
Paul Eggert (5)
Pádraig Brady (20)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v9.3
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v9.2..v9.3
Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.3.tar.gz (14MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.3.tar.xz (5.6MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
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Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
b657a5fe51eed93cdafd9fe69594305ff040dd00 coreutils-9.3.tar.gz
oz0sC8Sb48eaR5SUTc2HEDv0l7U6FLr81DHIylOXUlI= coreutils-9.3.tar.gz
cd1fd7e27d46fd2497b8f2a670b54785530ef7d2 coreutils-9.3.tar.xz
rbz8/omSNbceh2jc8HzVMlILf1T5qAZIQ/jRmakEu6o= coreutils-9.3.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
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 coreutils-9.3.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096/0xDF6FD971306037D9 2011-09-23 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6C37 DC12 121A 5006 BC1D B804 DF6F D971 3060 37D9
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat@gnu.org>
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key P@draigBrady.com
gpg --recv-keys DF6FD971306037D9
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=coreutils&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify coreutils-9.3.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72c.17-0cc3
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v0.1-6046-g4b60490554
Bison 3.8.2
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.3 (2023-04-18) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp --reflink=auto (the default), mv, and install
will again fall back to a standard copy in more cases.
Previously copies could fail with permission errors on
more restricted systems like android or containers etc.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]
cp --recursive --backup will again operate correctly.
Previousy it may have issued "File exists" errors when
it failed to appropriately rename files being replaced.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]
date --file and dircolors will now diagnose a failure to read a file.
Previously they would have silently ignored the failure.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
md5sum --check again correctly prints the status of each file checked.
Previously the status for files was printed as 'OK' once any file had passed.
This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]
wc will now diagnose if any total counts have overflowed.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
`wc -c` will again correctly update the read offset of inputs.
Previously it deduced the size of inputs while leaving the offset unchanged.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.27]
Coreutils programs no longer fail for timestamps past the year 2038
on obsolete configurations with 32-bit signed time_t, because the
build procedure now rejects these configurations.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
** Changes in behavior
'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now issue an error diagnostic if skipping a file,
to correspond with -n inducing a nonzero exit status as of coreutils 9.2.
Similarly 'cp -v' and 'mv -v' will output a message for each file skipped
due to -n, -i, or -u.
** New features
cp and mv now support --update=none to always skip existing files
in the destination, while not affecting the exit status.
This is equivalent to the --no-clobber behavior from before v9.2.
This is to announce coreutils-9.2, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
There have been 209 commits by 14 people in the 48 weeks since 9.1.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Arsen Arsenović (1) Jim Meyering (7)
Bernhard Voelker (3) Paul Eggert (90)
Bruno Haible (1) Pierre Marsais (1)
Carl Edquist (2) Pádraig Brady (98)
ChuanGang Jiang (2) Rasmus Villemoes (1)
Dennis Williamson (1) Stefan Kangas (1)
Ivan Radić (1) Álvar Ibeas (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v9.2
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v9.1..v9.2
To summarize the 665 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v9.2
git submodule summary v9.1
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.2.tar.gz (14MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.2.tar.xz (5.6MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
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6afa9ce3729afc82965a33d02ad585d1571cdeef coreutils-9.2.tar.gz
ebWNqhmcY84g95GRF3NLISOUnJLReVZPkI4yiQFZzUg= coreutils-9.2.tar.gz
3769071b357890dc36d820c597c1c626a1073fcb coreutils-9.2.tar.xz
aIX/R7nNshHeR9NowXhT9Abar5ixSKrs3xDeKcwEsLM= coreutils-9.2.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
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 coreutils-9.2.tar.xz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096 2011-09-23 [SC]
6C37 DC12 121A 5006 BC1D B804 DF6F D971 3060 37D9
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat@gnu.org>
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key P@draigBrady.com
gpg --recv-keys DF6FD971306037D9
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=coreutils&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify coreutils-9.2.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.71
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v0.1-5857-gf17d397771
Bison 3.8.2
==================================================================
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.2 (2023-03-20) [stable]
** Bug fixes
'comm --output-delimiter="" --total' now delimits columns in the total
line with the NUL character, consistent with NUL column delimiters in
the rest of the output. Previously no delimiters were used for the
total line in this case.
[bug introduced with the --total option in coreutils-8.26]
'cp -p' no longer has a security hole when cloning into a dangling
symbolic link on macOS 10.12 and later.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]
'cp -rx / /mnt' no longer complains "cannot create directory /mnt/".
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]
cp, mv, and install avoid allocating too much memory, and possibly
triggering "memory exhausted" failures, on file systems like ZFS,
which can return varied file system I/O block size values for files.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
cp, mv, and install now immediately acknowledge transient errors
when creating copy-on-write or cloned reflink files, on supporting
file systems like XFS, BTRFS, APFS, etc.
Previously they would have tried again with other copy methods
which may have resulted in data corruption.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5 and enabled by default in coreutils-9.0]
cp, mv, and install now handle ENOENT failures across CIFS file systems,
falling back from copy_file_range to a better supported standard copy.
[issue introduced in coreutils-9.0]
'mv --backup=simple f d/' no longer mistakenly backs up d/f to f~.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]
rm now fails gracefully when memory is exhausted.
Previously it may have aborted with a failed assertion in some cases.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
rm -d (--dir) now properly handles unreadable empty directories.
E.g., before, this would fail to remove d: mkdir -m0 d; src/rm -d d
[bug introduced in v8.19 with the addition of this option]
runcon --compute no longer looks up the specified command in the $PATH
so that there is no mismatch between the inspected and executed file.
[bug introduced when runcon was introduced in coreutils-6.9.90]
'sort -g' no longer infloops when given multiple NaNs on platforms
like x86_64 where 'long double' has padding bits in memory.
Although the fix alters sort -g's NaN ordering, that ordering has
long been documented to be platform-dependent.
[bug introduced 1999-05-02 and only partly fixed in coreutils-8.14]
stty ispeed and ospeed options no longer accept and silently ignore
invalid speed arguments, or give false warnings for valid speeds.
Now they're validated against both the general accepted set,
and the system supported set of valid speeds.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
stty now wraps output appropriately for the terminal width.
Previously it may have output 1 character too wide for certain widths.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3]
tail --follow=name works again with non seekable files. Previously it
exited with an "Illegal seek" error when such a file was replaced.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.1.6]
'wc -c' will again efficiently determine the size of large files
on all systems. It no longer redundantly reads data from certain
sized files larger than SIZE_MAX.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
** Changes in behavior
Programs now support the new Ronna (R), and Quetta (Q) SI prefixes,
corresponding to 10^27 and 10^30 respectively,
along with their binary counterparts Ri (2^90) and Qi (2^100).
In some cases (e.g., 'sort -h') these new prefixes simply work;
in others, where they exceed integer width limits, they now elicit
the same integer overflow diagnostics as other large prefixes.
'cp --reflink=always A B' no longer leaves behind a newly created
empty file B merely because copy-on-write clones are not supported.
'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now exit with nonzero status if they skip their
action because the destination exists, and likewise for 'cp -i',
'ln -i', and 'mv -i' when the user declines. (POSIX specifies this
for 'cp -i' and 'mv -i'.)
cp, mv, and install again read in multiples of the reported block size,
to support unusual devices that may have this constraint.
[behavior inadvertently changed in coreutils-7.2]
du --apparent now counts apparent sizes only of regular files and
symbolic links. POSIX does not specify the meaning of apparent
sizes (i.e., st_size) for other file types, and counting those sizes
could cause confusing and unwanted size mismatches.
'ls -v' and 'sort -V' go back to sorting ".0" before ".A",
reverting to the behavior in coreutils-9.0 and earlier.
This behavior is now documented.
ls --color now matches a file extension case sensitively
if there are different sequences defined for separate cases.
printf unicode \uNNNN, \UNNNNNNNN syntax, now supports all valid
unicode code points. Previously is was restricted to the C
universal character subset, which restricted most points <= 0x9F.
runcon now exits with status 125 for internal errors. Previously upon
internal errors it would exit with status 1, which was less distinguishable
from errors from the invoked command.
'split -n N' now splits more evenly when the input size is not a
multiple of N, by creating N output files whose sizes differ by at
most 1 byte. Formerly, it did this only when the input size was
less than N.
'stat -c %s' now prints sizes as unsigned, consistent with 'ls'.
** New Features
cksum now accepts the --base64 (-b) option to print base64-encoded
checksums. It also accepts/checks such checksums.
cksum now accepts the --raw option to output a raw binary checksum.
No file name or other information is output in this mode.
cp, mv, and install now accept the --debug option to
print details on how a file is being copied.
factor now accepts the --exponents (-h) option to print factors
in the form p^e, rather than repeating the prime p, e times.
ls now supports the --time=modification option, to explicitly
select the default mtime timestamp for display and sorting.
mv now supports the --no-copy option, which causes it to fail when
asked to move a file to a different file system.
split now accepts options like '-n SIZE' that exceed machine integer
range, when they can be implemented as if they were infinity.
split -n now accepts piped input even when not in round-robin mode,
by first copying input to a temporary file to determine its size.
wc now accepts the --total={auto,never,always,only} option
to give explicit control over when the total is output.
** Improvements
cp --sparse=auto (the default), mv, and install,
will use the copy_file_range syscall now also with sparse files.
This may be more efficient, by avoiding user space copies,
and possibly employing copy offloading or reflinking,
for the non sparse portion of such sparse files.
On macOS, cp creates a copy-on-write clone in more cases.
Previously cp would only do this when preserving mode and timestamps.
date --debug now diagnoses if multiple --date or --set options are
specified, as only the last specified is significant in that case.
rm outputs more accurate diagnostics in the presence of errors
when removing directories. For example EIO will be faithfully
diagnosed, rather than being conflated with ENOTEMPTY.
tail --follow=name now works with single non regular files even
when their modification time doesn't change when new data is available.
Previously tail would not show any new data in this case.
tee -p detects when all remaining outputs have become broken pipes, and
exits, rather than waiting for more input to induce an exit when written.
tee now handles non blocking outputs, which can be seen for example with
telnet or mpirun piping through tee to a terminal.
Previously tee could truncate data written to such an output and fail,
and also potentially output a "Resource temporarily unavailable" error.
This is to announce coreutils-9.1, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
There have been 210 commits by 10 people in the 29 weeks since 9.0
Bernhard Voelker (3) Max Filippov (1)
Bruno Haible (1) Paul Eggert (136)
Christian Hesse (1) Pádraig Brady (64)
Daniel Knittl-Frank (1) Rohan Sable (1)
Jim Meyering (4) Ville Skyttä (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
https://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v9.1
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v9.0..v9.1
To summarize the 259 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v9.1
git submodule summary v9.0
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.tar.gz (14MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.tar.xz (5.5MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.tar.gz.sig
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
cab498ddc655fd3c7da553d80436d28bc9b17283 coreutils-9.1.tar.gz
YFXfkmhgPoI5pcnB1kyyW5qZJTDfZuM7jXimYO2zezU coreutils-9.1.tar.gz
aa7bf0be95eef29d98eb5c76d4455698b3b705b3 coreutils-9.1.tar.xz
YaH0ENeLp+fzelpPUObRMgrKMzdUhKMlXt3xejhYBCM coreutils-9.1.tar.xz
The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the
hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to.
[*] 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 coreutils-9.1.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to update
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key P@draigBrady.com
gpg --recv-keys DF6FD971306037D9
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NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.1 (2022-04-15) [stable]
** Bug fixes
chmod -R no longer exits with error status when encountering symlinks.
All files would be processed correctly, but the exit status was incorrect.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
If 'cp -Z A B' checks B's status and some other process then removes B,
cp no longer creates B with a too-generous SELinux security context
before adjusting it to the correct value.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.17]
'cp --preserve=ownership A B' no longer ignores the umask when creating B.
Also, 'cp --preserve-xattr A B' is less likely to temporarily chmod u+w B.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.7]
On macOS, 'cp A B' no longer miscopies when A is in an APFS file system
and B is in some other file system.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
On macOS, fmt no longer corrupts multi-byte characters
by misdetecting their component bytes as spaces.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
'id xyz' now uses the name 'xyz' to determine groups, instead of xyz's uid.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
'ls -v' and 'sort -V' no longer mishandle corner cases like "a..a" vs "a.+"
or lines containing NULs. Their behavior now matches the documentation
for file names like ".m4" that consist entirely of an extension,
and the documentation has been clarified for unusual cases.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
On macOS, 'mv A B' no longer fails with "Operation not supported"
when A and B are in the same tmpfs file system.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
'mv -T --backup=numbered A B/' no longer miscalculates the backup number
for B when A is a directory, possibly inflooping.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.3]
** Changes in behavior
cat now uses the copy_file_range syscall if available, when doing
simple copies between regular files. This may be more efficient, by avoiding
user space copies, and possibly employing copy offloading or reflinking.
chown and chroot now warn about usages like "chown root.root f",
which have the nonstandard and long-obsolete "." separator that
causes problems on platforms where user names contain ".".
Applications should use ":" instead of ".".
cksum no longer allows abbreviated algorithm names,
so that forward compatibility and robustness is improved.
date +'%-N' now suppresses excess trailing digits, instead of always
padding them with zeros to 9 digits. It uses clock_getres and
clock_gettime to infer the clock resolution.
dd conv=fsync now synchronizes output even after a write error,
and similarly for dd conv=fdatasync.
dd now counts bytes instead of blocks if a block count ends in "B".
For example, 'dd count=100KiB' now copies 100 KiB of data, not
102,400 blocks of data. The flags count_bytes, skip_bytes and
seek_bytes are therefore obsolescent and are no longer documented,
though they still work.
ls no longer colors files with capabilities by default, as file-based
capabilties are very rarely used, and lookup increases processing per file by
about 30%. It's best to use getcap [-r] to identify files with capabilities.
ls no longer tries to automount files, reverting to the behavior
before the statx() call was introduced in coreutils-8.32.
stat no longer tries to automount files by default, reverting to the
behavior before the statx() call was introduced in coreutils-8.32.
Only `stat --cached=never` will continue to automount files.
timeout --foreground --kill-after=... will now exit with status 137
if the kill signal was sent, which is consistent with the behavior
when the --foreground option is not specified. This allows users to
distinguish if the command was more forcefully terminated.
** New Features
dd now supports the aliases iseek=N for skip=N, and oseek=N for seek=N,
like FreeBSD and other operating systems.
dircolors takes a new --print-ls-colors option to display LS_COLORS
entries, on separate lines, colored according to the entry color code.
dircolors will now also match COLORTERM in addition to TERM environment
variables. The default config will apply colors with any COLORTERM set.
** Improvements
cp, mv, and install now use openat-like syscalls when copying to a directory.
This avoids some race conditions and should be more efficient.
On macOS, cp creates a copy-on-write clone if source and destination
are regular files on the same APFS file system, the destination does
not already exist, and cp is preserving mode and timestamps (e.g.,
'cp -p', 'cp -a').
The new 'date' option --resolution outputs the timestamp resolution.
With conv=fdatasync or conv=fsync, dd status=progress now reports
any extra final progress just before synchronizing output data,
since synchronizing can take a long time.
printf now supports printing the numeric value of multi-byte characters.
sort --debug now diagnoses issues with --field-separator characters
that conflict with characters possibly used in numbers.
'tail -f file | filter' now exits on Solaris when filter exits.
root invoked coreutils, that are built and run in single binary mode,
now adjust /proc/$pid/cmdline to be more specific to the utility
being run, rather than using the general "coreutils" binary name.
** Build-related
AIX builds no longer fail because some library functions are not found.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.32]
This is to announce coreutils-9.0, a stable release.
This is a new major release, with these significant changes:
- cp has changed how it handles data
- enables CoW by default (through FICLONE ioctl),
- uses copy offload where available (through copy_file_range),
- detects holes differently (though SEEK_HOLE)
- This also applies to mv and install.
- utilities are more tuned to the hardware available
- wc uses avx2 instructions to count lines
- cksum uses pclmul instructions for --algorithm=crc
- More amalgamation of utilities
- cksum now supports the -a option to select any digest.
- This is the preferred interface, rather than sha*sum etc.
- This is similar to the amalgamation of encoding utilities
introduced in the basenc command in v8.31.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
There have been 257 commits by 25 people in the 81 weeks since 8.32
Andreas Schwab (1) KOBAYASHI Takashi (2)
Arman Absalan (1) Kamil Dudka (4)
Assaf Gordon (1) Kristoffer Brånemyr (3)
Ben Pfaff (1) Nikolay Nechaev (1)
Benno Schulenberg (1) Nishant Nayan (1)
Bernhard Voelker (17) Paul Eggert (97)
Carl Edquist (2) Pádraig Brady (110)
Emanuele Giacomelli (1) Tianjia Zhang (1)
Erik Auerswald (1) Tim Gates (1)
Grigorii Sokolik (2) Tobias Stoeckmann (1)
Jason Kim (1) Zorro Lang (1)
Jim Meyering (7) nl6720 (1)
Justin Tracey (1)
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==================================================================
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NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.0 (2021-09-24) [stable]
** Bug fixes
chmod -v no longer misreports modes of dangling symlinks.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
cp -a --attributes-only now never removes destination files,
even if the destination files are hardlinked, or the source
is a non regular file.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
csplit --suppress-matched now elides the last matched line
when a specific number of pattern matches are performed.
[bug introduced with the --suppress-matched feature in coreutils-8.22]
df no longer outputs duplicate remote mounts in the presence of bind mounts.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
df no longer mishandles command-line args that it pre-mounts
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.29]
du no longer crashes on XFS file systems when the directory hierarchy is
heavily changed during the run.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.25]
env -S no longer crashes when given unusual whitespace characters
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.30]
expr no longer mishandles unmatched \(...\) in regular expressions.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
ls no longer crashes when printing the SELinux context for unstatable files.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.91]
mkdir -m no longer mishandles modes more generous than the umask.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
nl now handles single character --section-delimiter arguments,
by assuming a second ':' character has been specified, as specified by POSIX.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
pr again adjusts tabs in input, to maintain alignment in multi column output.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.9]
rm no longer skips an extra file when the removal of an empty directory fails.
[bug introduced by the rewrite to use fts in coreutils-8.0]
split --number=K/N will again correctly split chunk K of N to stdout.
Previously a chunk starting after 128KiB, output the wrong part of the file.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
tail -f no longer overruns a stack buffer when given too many files
to follow and ulimit -n exceeds 1024.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
tr no longer crashes when using --complement with certain
invalid combinations of case character classes.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
basenc --base64 --decode no longer silently discards decoded characters
on (1024*5) buffer boundaries
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.31]
** Changes in behavior
cp and install now default to copy-on-write (COW) if available.
cp, install and mv now use the copy_file_range syscall if available.
Also, they use lseek+SEEK_HOLE rather than ioctl+FS_IOC_FIEMAP on sparse
files, as lseek is simpler and more portable.
On GNU/Linux systems, ls no longer issues an error message on a
directory merely because it was removed. This reverts a change
that was made in release 8.32.
ptx -T no longer attempts to substitute old-fashioned TeX escapes
for 8-bit non-ASCII alphabetic characters. TeX indexes should
instead use '\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}' or equivalent.
stat will use decomposed (major,minor) device numbers in its default format.
This is less ambiguous, and more consistent with ls.
sum [-r] will output a file name, even if only a single name is passed.
This is consistent with sum -s, cksum, and other sum(1) implementations.
** New Features
cksum now supports the -a (--algorithm) option to select any
of the existing sum, md5sum, b2sum, sha*sum implementations etc.
cksum now subsumes all of these programs, and coreutils
will introduce no future standalone checksum utility.
cksum -a now supports the 'sm3' argument, to use the SM3 digest algorithm.
cksum --check now supports auto detecting the digest type to use,
when verifying tagged format checksums.
expr and factor now support bignums on all platforms.
ls --classify now supports the "always", "auto", or "never" flags,
to support only outputting classifier characters if connected to a tty.
ls now accepts the --sort=width option, to sort by file name width.
This is useful to more compactly organize the default vertical column output.
ls now accepts the --zero option, to terminate each output line with
NUL instead of newline.
nl --line-increment can now take a negative number to decrement the count.
stat supports more formats for representing decomposed device numbers.
%Hd,%Ld and %Hr,%Lr will output major,minor device numbers and device types
respectively. %d corresponds to st_dev and %r to std_rdev.
** Improvements
cat --show-ends will now show \r\n as ^M$. Previously the \r was taken
literally, thus overwriting the first character in the line with '$'.
cksum [-a crc] is now up to 4 times faster by using a slice by 8 algorithm,
and at least 8 times faster where pclmul instructions are supported.
A new --debug option will indicate if pclmul is being used.
md5sum --check now supports checksum files with CRLF line endings.
This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum.
df now recognizes these file systems as remote:
acfs, coda, fhgfs, gpfs, ibrix, ocfs2, and vxfs.
rmdir now clarifies the error if a symlink_to_dir/ has not been traversed.
This is the case on GNU/Linux systems, where the trailing slash is ignored.
stat and tail now know about the "devmem", "exfat", "secretmem", "vboxsf",
and "zonefs" file system types. stat -f -c%T now reports the file system
type, and tail -f uses polling for "vboxsf" and inotify for the others.
timeout now supports sub-second timeouts on macOS.
wc is up to 5 times faster when counting only new line characters,
where avx2 instructions are supported.
A new --debug option will indicate if avx2 is being used.
This is to announce coreutils-8.32, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
There have been 100 commits by 18 people in the 51 weeks since 8.31
Akim Demaille (1) Jeff Layton (3)
Andreas Dilger (1) Jim Meyering (1)
Assaf Gordon (6) Kamil Dudka (4)
Bernhard Voelker (6) Kevin Locke (1)
Bruno Haible (3) Martin Castillo (2)
Chris Meyering (1) Mike Swanson (1)
Colin Watson (1) Paul Eggert (31)
Emil Engler (1) Pádraig Brady (38)
Jan Nieuwenhuizen (1) Shugo Maeda (1)
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==================================================================
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git shortlog v8.31..v8.32
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NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.32 (2020-03-05) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp now copies /dev/fd/N correctly on platforms like Solaris where
it is a character-special file whose minor device number is N.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.1.6]
dd conv=fdatasync no longer reports a "Bad file descriptor" error
when fdatasync is interrupted, and dd now retries interrupted calls
to close, fdatasync, fstat and fsync instead of incorrectly
reporting an "Interrupted system call" error.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-6.0]
df now correctly parses the /proc/self/mountinfo file for unusual entries
like ones with '\r' in a field value ("mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /foo$'\r'bar"),
when the source field is empty ('mount -t tmpfs "" /mnt'), and when the
filesystem type contains characters like a blank which need escaping.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-8.24 with the introduction of reading
the /proc/self/mountinfo file]
factor again outputs immediately when stdout is a tty but stdin is not.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
ln works again on old systems without O_DIRECTORY support (like Solaris 10),
and on systems where symlink ("x", ".") fails with errno == EINVAL
(like Solaris 10 and Solaris 11).
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.31]
rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty now works correctly for directories
that fail to be removed due to permission issues. Previously the exit status
was reversed, failing for non empty and succeeding for empty directories.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.11]
'shuf -r -n 0 file' no longer mistakenly reads from standard input.
[bug introduced with the --repeat feature in coreutils-8.22]
split no longer reports a "output file suffixes exhausted" error
when the specified number of files is evenly divisible by 10, 16, 26,
for --numeric, --hex, or default alphabetic suffixes respectively.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
seq no longer prints an extra line under certain circumstances (such as
'seq -f "%g " 1000000 1000000').
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.10]
** Changes in behavior
Several programs now check that numbers end properly. For example,
'du -d 1x' now reports an error instead of silently ignoring the 'x'.
Affected programs and options include du -d, expr's numeric operands
on non-GMP builds, install -g and -o, ls's TABSIZE environment
variable, mknod b and c, ptx -g and -w, shuf -n, and sort --batch-size
and --parallel.
date now parses military time zones in accordance with common usage:
"A" to "M" are equivalent to UTC+1 to UTC+12
"N" to "Y" are equivalent to UTC-1 to UTC-12
"Z" is "zulu" time (UTC).
For example, 'date -d "09:00B" is now equivalent to 9am in UTC+2 time zone.
Previously, military time zones were parsed according to the obsolete
rfc822, with their value negated (e.g., "B" was equivalent to UTC-2).
[The old behavior was introduced in sh-utils 2.0.15 ca. 1999, predating
coreutils package.]
ls issues an error message on a removed directory, on GNU/Linux systems.
Previously no error and no entries were output, and so indistinguishable
from an empty directory, with default ls options.
uniq no longer uses strcoll() to determine string equivalence,
and so will operate more efficiently and consistently.
** New Features
ls now supports the --time=birth option to display and sort by
file creation time, where available.
od --skip-bytes now can use lseek even if the input is not a regular
file, greatly improving performance in some cases.
stat(1) supports a new --cached= option, used on systems with statx(2)
to control cache coherency of file system attributes,
useful on network file systems.
** Improvements
stat and ls now use the statx() system call where available, which can
operate more efficiently by only retrieving requested attributes.
stat and tail now know about the "binderfs", "dma-buf-fs", "erofs",
"ppc-cmm-fs", and "z3fold" file systems.
stat -f -c%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
** Build-related
gzip-compressed tarballs are distributed once again
This is to announce coreutils-8.31, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
There have been 88 commits by 15 people in the 35 weeks since 8.30
Achilles Gaikwad (1) Jim Meyering (1)
Assaf Gordon (7) Martin Bukatovic (1)
Ayappan (1) Martin Castillo (1)
Bernhard Voelker (10) Paul Eggert (24)
Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1) Pádraig Brady (39)
Chih-Hsuan Yen (1) Stéphane Campinas (1)
Daming Yang (1) Wodry (1)
Filipp Gunbin (1)
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==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
https://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
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or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.30..v8.31
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from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.31
git submodule summary v8.30
==================================================================
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NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.31 (2019-03-10) [stable]
** Bug fixes
'base64 a b' now correctly diagnoses 'b' as the extra operand, not 'a'.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
When B already exists, 'cp -il A B' no longer immediately fails
after asking the user whether to proceed.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
df no longer corrupts displayed multibyte characters on macOS.
[bug introduced with coreutils-8.18]
seq no longer outputs inconsistent decimal point characters
for the last number, when locales are misconfigured.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
shred, sort, and split no longer falsely report ftruncate errors
when outputting to less-common file types. For example, the shell
command 'sort /dev/null -o /dev/stdout | cat' no longer fails with
an "error truncating" diagnostic.
[bug was introduced with coreutils-8.18 for sort and split, and
(for shared memory objects only) with fileutils-4.1 for shred]
sync no longer fails for write-only file arguments.
[bug introduced with argument support to sync in coreutils-8.24]
'tail -f file | filter' no longer exits immediately on AIX.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.28]
'tail -f file | filter' no longer goes into an infinite loop
if filter exits and SIGPIPE is ignored.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.28]
** Changes in behavior
cksum, dd, hostid, hostname, link, logname, sleep, tsort, unlink,
uptime, users, whoami, yes: now always process --help and --version options,
regardless of any other arguments present before any optional '--'
end-of-options marker.
nohup now processes --help and --version as first options even if other
parameters follow.
'yes a -- b' now outputs 'a b' instead of including the end-of-options
marker as before: 'a -- b'.
echo now always processes backslash escapes when the POSIXLY_CORRECT
environment variable is set.
When possible 'ln A B' now merely links A to B and reports an error
if this fails, instead of statting A and B before linking. This
uses fewer system calls and avoids some races. The old statting
approach is still used in situations where hard links to directories
are allowed (e.g., NetBSD when superuser).
ls --group-directories-first will also group symlinks to directories.
'test -a FILE' is not supported anymore. Long ago, there were concerns about
the high probability of humans confusing the -a primary with the -a binary
operator, so POSIX changed this to 'test -e FILE'. Scripts using it were
already broken and non-portable; the -a unary operator was never documented.
wc now treats non breaking space characters as word delimiters
unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set.
** New features
id now supports specifying multiple users.
'date' now supports the '+' conversion specification flag,
introduced in POSIX.1-2017.
printf, seq, sleep, tail, and timeout now accept floating point
numbers in either the current or the C locale. For example, if the
current locale's decimal point is ',', 'sleep 0,1' and 'sleep 0.1'
now mean the same thing. Previously, these commands accepted only
C-locale syntax with '.' as the decimal point. The new behavior is
more compatible with other implementations in non-C locales.
test now supports the '-N FILE' unary operator (like e.g. bash) to check
whether FILE exists and has been modified since it was last read.
env now supports '--default-signal[=SIG]', '--ignore-signal[=SIG]', and
'--block-signal[=SIG], to setup signal handling before executing a program.
env now supports '--list-signal-handling' to indicate non-default
signal handling before executing a program.
** New commands
basenc is added to complement existing base64,base32 commands,
and encodes and decodes printable text using various common encodings:
base64,base64url,base32,base32hex,base16,base2,z85.
** Improvements
ls -l now better aligns abbreviated months containing digits,
which is common in Asian locales.
stat and tail now know about the "sdcardfs" file system on Android.
stat -f -c%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
stat now prints file creation time when supported by the file system,
on GNU Linux systems with glibc >= 2.28 and kernel >= 4.11.
This is to announce coreutils-8.30, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
There have been 65 commits by 14 people in the 26 weeks since 8.29
Adam Borowski (1) Jim Meyering (1)
Assaf Gordon (5) Kaxandra Labat (1)
Bernhard Voelker (2) Michael Orlitzky (2)
Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1) Paul Eggert (17)
Brent Petit (1) Pádraig Brady (34)
Carlos Santos (1) Roland Hieber (1)
Eric Blake (1) Tobias Stoeckmann (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
https://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.30
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.29..v8.30
To summarize the 262 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.30
git submodule summary v8.29
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.30.tar.xz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.30.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
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[*] 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 coreutils-8.30.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.15
Gnulib v0.1-1979-g16aa5a2
Bison 3.0.4
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.30 (2018-07-01) [stable]
** Bug fixes
'cp --symlink SRC DST' will again correctly validate DST.
If DST is a regular file and SRC is a symlink to DST,
then cp will no longer allow that operation to clobber DST.
Also with -d, if DST is a symlink, then it can always be replaced,
even if it points to SRC on a separate device.
[bugs introduced with coreutils-8.27]
'cp -n -u' and 'mv -n -u' now consistently ignore the -u option.
Previously, this option combination suffered from race conditions
that caused -u to sometimes override -n.
[bug introduced with coreutils-7.1]
'cp -a --no-preserve=mode' now sets appropriate default permissions
for non regular files like fifos and character device nodes etc.,
and leaves mode bits of existing files unchanged.
Previously it would have set executable bits on created special files,
and set mode bits for existing files as if they had been created.
[bug introduced with coreutils-8.20]
'cp --remove-destination file symlink' now removes the symlink
even if it can't be traversed.
[bug introduced with --remove-destination in fileutils-4.1.1]
ls no longer truncates the abbreviated month names that have a
display width between 6 and 12 inclusive. Previously this would have
output ambiguous months for Arabic or Catalan locales.
'ls -aA' is now equivalent to 'ls -A', since -A now overrides -a.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
'mv -n A B' no longer suffers from a race condition that can
overwrite a simultaneously-created B. This bug fix requires
platform support for the renameat2 or renameatx_np syscalls, found
in recent Linux and macOS kernels. As a side effect, ‘mv -n A A’
now silently does nothing if A exists.
[bug introduced with coreutils-7.1]
** Changes in behavior
'cp --force file symlink' now removes the symlink even if
it is self referential.
ls --color now matches file extensions case insensitively.
** New features
cp --reflink now supports --reflink=never to enforce a standard copy.
env supports a new -v/--debug option to show verbose information about
each processing step.
env supports a new -S/--split-string=S option to split a single argument
string into multiple arguments. Used to pass multiple arguments in scripts
(shebang lines).
md5sum accepts a new option: --zero (-z) to delimit the output lines with a
NUL instead of a newline character. This also disables file name escaping.
This also applies to sha*sum and b2sum.
rm --preserve-root now supports the --preserve-root=all option to
reject any command line argument that is mounted to a separate file system.
** Improvements
cut supports line lengths up to the max file size on 32 bit systems.
Previously only offsets up to SIZE_MAX-1 were supported.
stat and tail now know about the "exfs" file system, which is a
version of XFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type,
and tail -f uses inotify.
wc avoids redundant processing of ASCII text in multibyte locales,
which is especially significant on macOS.
This is to announce coreutils-8.29, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
There have been 62 commits by 11 people in the 17 weeks since 8.28
Assaf Gordon (3) Paul Eggert (4)
Bernhard Voelker (9) Pádraig Brady (41)
Jean Delvare (1) Thomas Deutschmann (1)
Jim Meyering (3) Thomas Jarosch (1)
Kamil Dudka (1) Vincent Lefevre (1)
Michael Stone (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
https://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.29
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.28..v8.29
To summarize the 175 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.29
git submodule summary v8.28
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
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[*] 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 coreutils-8.29.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.15
Gnulib v0.1-1719-g21d224d
Bison 3.0.4
NEWS
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.29 (2017-12-27) [stable]
** Bug fixes
b2sum no longer crashes when processing certain truncated check files.
[bug introduced with b2sum coreutils-8.26]
dd now ensures the correct cache ranges are specified for the "nocache"
and "direct" flags. Previously some pages in the page cache were not
invalidated. [bug introduced for "direct" in coreutils-7.5,
and with the "nocache" implementation in coreutils-8.11]
df no longer hangs when given a fifo argument.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.3]
ptx -S no longer infloops for a pattern which returns zero-length matches.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
shred --remove will again repeatedly rename files with shortening names
to attempt to hide the original length of the file name.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.28]
stty no longer crashes when processing settings with -F also specified.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.0]
tail --bytes again supports non seekable inputs on all systems.
On systems like android it always tried to process as seekable inputs.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
timeout will again notice its managed command exiting, even when
invoked with blocked CHLD signal, or in a narrow window where
this CHLD signal from the exiting child was missed. In each case
timeout would have then waited for the time limit to expire.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.27]
** New features
timeout now supports the --verbose option to diagnose forced termination.
** Improvements
dd now supports iflag=direct with arbitrary sized files on all file systems.
tail --bytes=NUM will efficiently seek to the end of block devices,
rather than reading from the start.
Utilities which do not support long options (other than the default --help
and --version), e.g. cksum and sleep, now use more consistent error diagnostic
for unknown long options.
** Build-related
Default man pages are now distributed which are used if perl is
not available on the build system, or when cross compiling.
This is to announce coreutils-8.28, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
There have been 108 commits by 18 people in the 25 weeks since 8.27
Andreas Schwab (1) Josef Cejka (1)
Assaf Gordon (5) Kamil Dudka (1)
Bo Rydberg (1) Ludovic Courtès (1)
Bogdan Drozdowski (1) Michael Heimpold (1)
Chris Davies (1) Paul Eggert (25)
Colin Watson (1) Philipp Thomas (1)
Jaak Ristioja (1) Prateek saxena (1)
Jacob Keller (1) Pádraig Brady (56)
Jim Meyering (10) Sebastian Kisela (2)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
https://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.28
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.27..v8.28
To summarize the 363 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.28
git submodule summary v8.27
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.28.tar.xz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.28.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.28.tar.xz
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[*] 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 coreutils-8.28.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.15
Gnulib v0.1-1546-ga20922f
Bison 3.0.4
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.28 (2017-09-01) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp and mv now merely warn about any failure to preserve symlink ownership.
Before, cp (without -p) would exit with a failure status, and a cross-device
mv would leave such symlinks behind in the source file system.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
When creating numbered backups, cp, install, ln, and mv now avoid
races that could lose backup data in unlikely circumstances. Since
the fix relies on the renameat2 system call of Linux kernel 3.15 and
later, the races are still present on other platforms.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
cp, install, ln, and mv no longer lose data when asked to copy a
backup file to its original via a differently-spelled file name.
E.g., 'rm -f a a~; : > a; echo data > a~; cp --backup=simple a~ ./a'
now fails instead of losing the data.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
cp, install, ln, and mv now ignore nonsensical backup suffixes.
For example, --suffix='/' and --suffix='' are now no-ops.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
date and touch no longer overwrite the heap with large
user specified TZ values (CVE-2017-7476).
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.27]
dd status=progress now just counts seconds; e.g., it outputs "6 s"
consistently rather than sometimes outputting "6.00001 s".
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
df no longer interacts with excluded file system types, so for example
specifying -x nfs no longer hangs with problematic nfs mounts.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.21]
df no longer interacts with dummy file system types, so for example
no longer hangs with problematic nfs mounted via system.automount(5).
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.21]
`groups inva:lid root` no longer exits immediately upon failure.
Now, it prints a diagnostic or a line to stdout for each argument.
[bug introduced in the bourne-shell-to-C rewrite for coreutils-6.11]
kill now converts from number to signal name correctly on AIX.
Previously it would have always returned the 'EXIT' name.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.1.9]
ls now quotes symlink targets consistently. Previously it may not
have quoted the target name if the link name itself didn't need quoting.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
split no longer exits when invocations of a --filter return EPIPE.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
md5sum --check no longer incorrectly enables BSD reversed format mode when
ignoring some non checksum lines. This also affects sha*sum and b2sum.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.14]
tail -F 'dir/file' is now monitored even when 'dir' is replaced.
[bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
tail -f with --pid=PID now processes all inotify events.
Previously events may have been ignored completely upon PID death,
or ignored until future events on the monitored files.
[bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
tail -f /dev/tty is now supported by not using inotify when any
non regular files are specified, as inotify is ineffective with these.
[bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
uptime no longer outputs the AM/PM component of the current time,
as that's inconsistent with the 24 hour time format used.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
expr now returns number of characters matched (instead of incorrect
number of bytes matched) with 'match'/':' operators on multibyte strings.
** New features
expand and unexpand now support specifying an offset for tab stops
by prefixing the last specified number like --tabs=1,+8 which is
useful for visualizing diff output for example.
ls supports a new --hyperlink[=when] option to output file://
format links to files, supported by some terminals.
split supports a new --hex-suffixes[=from] option to create files with
lower case hexadecimal suffixes, similar to the --numeric-suffixes option.
env now has a --chdir (-C) option to change the working directory before
executing the subsidiary program.
expr supports multibyte strings for all string operations.
** Improvements
mv --verbose now distinguishes rename and copy operations.
stat -f -c %l, used to output the max file name length on a file system,
is now supported on FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
tail -f now exits immediately if the output is piped
and the reader of the pipe terminates.
tail -f no longer erroneously warns about being ineffective
when following a single tty, as the simple blocking loop used
is effective in this case.
This is to announce coreutils-8.27, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
There have been 67 commits by 16 people in the 14 weeks since 8.26
Assaf Gordon (5) Nicolas Iooss (1)
Bernhard Voelker (4) Niels Möller (1)
Eric Blake (1) Paul Eggert (14)
Janne Snabb (1) Pádraig Brady (35)
Jim Meyering (1) Tobias Stoeckmann (1)
Manolis Ragkousis (1) Torbjörn Granlund (1)
Maxime de Roucy (1) William R. Fraser (1)
Mike Swanson (1) Zooko (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.27
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.26..v8.27
To summarize the 198 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.27
git submodule summary v8.26
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.27.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.27.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.27.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.27.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 coreutils-8.27.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.15
Gnulib v0.1-1185-g405cd67
Bison 3.0.4
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.27 (2017-03-08) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp --parents will now set an SELinux context for created directories,
as appropriate for the -a, --preseve=context, or -Z options.
[bug present since SELinux support added in coreutils-6.10]
date again converts from a specified time zone. Previously output was
not converted to the local time zone, and remained in the specified one.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
Commands like 'cp --no-dereference -l A B' are no longer quiet no-ops
when A is a regular file and B is a symbolic link that points to A.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.0]
factor no longer goes into an infinite loop for certain numbers like
158909489063877810457 and 222087527029934481871.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
stat and tail now know about the "rdt" file system, which is an interface
to Resource Director Technology. stat -f --format=%T now reports the
file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
tail no longer prints redundant file headers with interleaved inotify events,
which could be triggered especially when tail was suspended and resumed.
[bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
timeout no longer has a race that may terminate the wrong process.
The race is unlikely, as timeout(1) needs to receive a signal right
after the command being monitored finishes. Also the system needs
to have reallocated that command's pid in that short time window.
[bug introduced when timeout was added in coreutils-7.0]
wc --bytes --files0-from now correctly reports byte counts.
Previously it may have returned values that were too large,
depending on the size of the first file processed.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
** Improvements
The new 'date' option --rfc-email is now the long form for -R.
The new option spelling is intended to avoid the need to track the
Internet RFC number for email dates (currently RFC 5322). The old
option spellings --rfc-2822 and --rfc-822 still work.
date now outputs "-00" for a numeric time zone if the time is UTC
and the time zone abbreviation begins with "-", indicating that the
time zone is indeterminate.
nproc now honors the OMP_THREAD_LIMIT environment variable to
set the maximum returned value. OMP_NUM_THREADS continues to
set the minimum returned value, but is updated to support the
nested level syntax allowed in this variable.
stty now validates arguments before interacting with the device,
ensuring there are no side effects to specifying an invalid option.
If the file B already exists, commands like 'ln -f A B' and
'cp -fl A B' no longer remove B before creating the new link.
That is, there is no longer a brief moment when B does not exist.
** New features
expand and unexpand now support specifying a tab size to use
after explicitly specified tab stops, by prefixing the last
specified number like --tabs=2,4,/8.
This is to announce coreutils-8.26, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
There have been 135 commits by 18 people in the 45 weeks since 8.25
Antonio Ospite (1) KOBAYASHI Takashi (1)
Assaf Gordon (6) Kamil Dudka (6)
Bernhard Voelker (11) Paul Eggert (15)
Bishop Bettini (1) Peter Benie (1)
Daniel Lockyer (1) Philipp Thomas (1)
Eric Blake (2) Pádraig Brady (68)
George Burgess IV (1) Rishabh Dave (1)
Göran Uddeborg (1) Vincent Lefevre (1)
Jim Meyering (19) Yigal Korman (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.26
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.25..v8.26
To summarize the 313 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.26
git submodule summary v8.25
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.26.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.26.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.26.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.26.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 coreutils-8.26.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.15
Gnulib v0.1-989-gea96186
Bison 3.0.4
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.26 (2016-11-30) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp, mv, and install no longer run into undefined behavior when
handling ACLs on Cygwin and Solaris platforms. [bug introduced in
coreutils-8.24]
cp --parents --no-preserve=mode, no longer copies permissions from source
directories, instead using default permissions for created directories.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.93]
chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown, du, and rm, or specifically utilities
using the FTS interface, now diagnose failures returned by readdir().
[this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was
introduced in coreutils-8.0. du, chmod, chgrp and chown started using
fts in 6.0. chcon was added in coreutils-6.9.91 with fts support. ]
date, du, ls, and pr no longer mishandle time zone abbreviations on
System V style platforms where this information is available only
in the global variable 'tzname'. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
factor again outputs immediately when numbers are input interactively.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
head no longer tries to process non-seekable input as seekable,
which resulted in failures on FreeBSD 11 at least.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
install -DZ and mkdir -pZ now set default SELinux context correctly even if
two or more directories nested in each other are created and each of them
defaults to a different SELinux context.
ls --time-style no longer mishandles '%%b' in formats.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.2]
md5sum --check --ignore-missing no longer treats files with checksums
starting with "00" as missing. This also affects sha*sum.
[bug introduced with the --ignore-missing feature in coreutils-8.25]
nl now resets numbering for each page section rather than just for each page.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
pr now handles specified separator strings containing tabs correctly.
Previously it would have output random data from memory.
[This bug was detected with ASAN and present in "the beginning".]
sort -h -k now works even in locales that use blank as thousands separator.
stty --help no longer outputs extraneous gettext header lines
for translated languages. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
stty "sane" again sets "susp" to ^z on Solaris, and leaves "swtch" undefined.
[This bug previously fixed only on some older Solaris systems]
seq now immediately exits upon write errors.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
tac no longer crashes when there are issues reading from non-seekable inputs.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.15]
tail -F now continues to process initially untailable files that are replaced
by a tailable file. This was handled correctly when inotify was available,
and is now handled correctly in all cases.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.0h]
tail -f - 'untailable file' will now terminate when there is no more data
to read from stdin. Previously it behaved as if --retry was specified.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
tail -f 'remote file' will now avoid outputting repeated data on network
file systems that misreport file sizes through stale metadata.
[This bug was present in "the beginning" but exacerbated in coreutils-8.24]
tail -f --retry 'missing file' will now process truncations of that file.
Previously truncation was ignored thus not outputting new data in the file.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
tail -f will no longer continually try to open inaccessible files,
only doing so if --retry is specified.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
yes now handles short writes, rather than assuming all writes complete.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
** Changes in behavior
rm no longer accepts shortened variants of the --no-preserve-root option.
seq no longer accepts 0 value as increment, and now also rejects NaN
values for any argument.
stat now outputs nanosecond information for time stamps even if
they are out of localtime range.
sort, tail, and uniq now support traditional usage like 'sort +2'
and 'tail +10' on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2008 and later.
The 2008 edition of POSIX dropped the requirement that arguments
like '+2' must be treated as file names.
** Improvements
df now filters the system mount list more efficiently, with 20000
mount entries now being processed in about 1.1s compared to 1.7s.
du, shuf, sort, and uniq no longer fail to process a specified file
when their stdin is closed, which would have happened with glibc >= 2.14.
install -Z now also sets the default SELinux context for created directories.
ls is now fully responsive to signals until the first escape sequence is
written to a terminal.
ls now aligns quoted items with non quoted items, which is easier to read,
and also better indicates that the quote is not part of the actual name.
stat and tail now know about these file systems:
"balloon-kvm-fs" KVM dynamic RAM allocation support,
"cgroup2" Linux Control Groups V2 support,
"daxfs" Optical media file system,
"m1fs" A Plexistor file system,
"prl_fs" A parallels file system,
"smb2" Samba for SMB protocol V2,
"wslfs" Windows Subsystem for Linux,
"zsmalloc" Linux compressed swap support,
stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and
tail -f uses polling for "prl_fs" and "smb2", and inotify for others.
stat --format=%N for quoting file names now honors the
same QUOTING_STYLE environment variable values as ls.
** New programs
b2sum is added to support the BLAKE2 digest algorithm with
a similar interface to the existing md5sum and sha1sum, etc. commands.
** New Features
comm now accepts the --total option to output a summary at the end.
date now accepts the --debug option, to annotate the parsed date string,
display timezone information, and warn about potential misuse.
date now accepts the %q format to output the quarter of the year.
This is to announce coreutils-8.25, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
There have been 169 commits by 12 people in the 27 weeks since 8.24
Assaf Gordon (5) Jim Meyering (3)
Bernhard Voelker (11) Luther Thompson (1)
Dario Giovannetti (1) Paul Eggert (13)
Dave Chiluk (1) Peter Bray (2)
Dmitry Monakhov (1) Pádraig Brady (132)
Eric Blake (1) Richard Russon (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/software/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.25
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.24..v8.25
To summarize the 320 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.25
git submodule summary v8.24
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.25.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.25.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.25.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.25.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 coreutils-8.25.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.15
Gnulib v0.1-676-g85717b6
Bison 3.0.4
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.25 (2016-01-20) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp now correctly copies files with a hole at the end of the file,
and extents allocated beyond the apparent size of the file.
That combination resulted in the trailing hole not being reproduced.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.10]
cut --fields no longer outputs extraneous characters on some uClibc configs.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.11]
install -D again copies relative file names when absolute file names
are also specified along with an absolute destination directory name.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.2]
ls no longer prematurely wraps lines when printing short file names.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
mv no longer causes data loss due to removing a source directory specified
multiple times, when that directory is also specified as the destination.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
shred again uses defined patterns for all iteration counts.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.93]
sort --debug -b now correctly marks the matching extents for keys
that specify an offset for the first field.
[bug introduced with the --debug feature in coreutils-8.6]
tail -F now works with initially non existent files on a remote file system.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
** New commands
base32 is added to complement the existing base64 command,
and encodes and decodes printable text as per RFC 4648.
** New features
comm,cut,head,numfmt,paste,tail now have the -z,--zero-terminated option, and
tac --separator accepts an empty argument, to work with NUL delimited items.
dd now summarizes sizes in --human-readable format too, not just --si.
E.g., "3441325000 bytes (3.4 GB, 3.2 GiB) copied". It omits the summaries
if they would not provide useful information, e.g., "3 bytes copied".
Its status=progress output now uses the same format as ordinary status,
perhaps with trailing spaces to erase previous progress output.
md5sum now supports the --ignore-missing option to allow
verifying a subset of files given a larger list of checksums.
This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
printf now supports the '%q' format to print arguments in a form that
is reusable by most shells, with non-printable characters escaped
with the POSIX proposed $'...' syntax.
stty now supports the "[-]drain" setting to control whether to wait
for transmission of pending output before application of settings.
** Changes in behavior
base64 no longer supports hex or oct --wrap parameters,
thus better supporting decimals with leading zeros.
date --iso-8601 now uses +00:00 timezone format rather than +0000.
The standard states to use this "extended" format throughout a timestamp.
df now prefers sources towards the root of a device when
eliding duplicate bind mounted entries.
ls now quotes file names unambiguously and appropriate for use in a shell,
when outputting to a terminal.
join, sort, uniq with --zero-terminated, now treat '\n' as a field delimiter.
** Improvements
All utilities now quote user supplied arguments in error strings,
which avoids confusing error messages in the presence of '\r' chars etc.
Utilities that traverse directories, like chmod, cp, and rm etc., will operate
more efficiently on XFS through the use of "leaf optimization".
md5sum now ensures a single line per file for status on standard output,
by using a '\' at the start of the line, and replacing any newlines with '\n'.
This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
dircolors now supports globbing of TERM entries in its database.
For example "TERM *256color*" is now supported.
du no longer stats all mount points at startup, only doing so
upon detection of a directory cycle.
[issue introduced in coreutils-8.20]
ls -w0 is now interpreted as no limit on the length of the outputted line.
stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type for new Linux
pseudo file systems "bpf_fs", "btrfs_test", "nsfs", "overlayfs"
and "tracefs", and remote file system "acfs".
wc now ensures a single line per file for counts on standard output,
by quoting names containing '\n' characters; appropriate for use in a shell.
This is to announce coreutils-8.24, a stable release.
There have been 250 commits by 36 people in the 50 weeks since 8.23
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Alban Bedel (1) Kristoffer Brånemyr (1)
Anders Jonsson (1) Michael Witten (1)
Andreas Gruenbacher (1) Michal Nazarewicz (1)
Assaf Gordon (6) Mike Frysinger (1)
Bernhard Voelker (25) Mitchel Humpherys (1)
Boris Ranto (2) Nick Alcock (1)
Christoph Anton Mitterer (1) Paul Eggert (23)
Daiki Ueno (1) Pádraig Brady (158)
Dan Jacobson (1) Rasmus Borup Hansen (1)
David Sterba (1) Reuben Thomas (1)
Dylan Cali (1) Shane M Seymour (1)
Eric Blake (1) Stephane Chazelas (1)
Federico Simoncelli (1) Stéphane Aulery (1)
Fridolin Pokorny (1) Tobias Stoeckmann (1)
Giuseppe Scrivano (2) Wieland Hoffmann (1)
Jarosław Gruca (1) Yunlian Jiang (1)
Jim Meyering (6) Yurij Goncharuk (1)
KO Myung-Hun (3) Yury Usishchev (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.24
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.23..v8.24
To summarize the 320 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.24
git submodule summary v8.23
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.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 coreutils-8.24.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.15
Gnulib v0.1-504-gd03962a
Bison 3.0.2
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.24 (2015-07-03) [stable]
** Bug fixes
dd supports more robust SIGINFO/SIGUSR1 handling for outputting statistics.
Previously those signals may have inadvertently terminated the process.
df --local no longer hangs with inaccessible remote mounts.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.21]
du now silently ignores all directory cycles due to bind mounts.
Previously it would issue a warning and exit with a failure status.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.1 and partially fixed in coreutils-8.23]
chroot again calls chroot(DIR) and chdir("/"), even if DIR is "/".
This handles separate bind mounted "/" trees, and environments
depending on the implicit chdir("/").
[bugs introduced in coreutils-8.23]
cp no longer issues an incorrect warning about directory hardlinks when a
source directory is specified multiple times. Now, consistent with other
file types, a warning is issued for source directories with duplicate names,
or with -H the directory is copied again using the symlink name.
factor avoids writing partial lines, thus supporting parallel operation.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
head, od, split, tac, tail, and wc no longer mishandle input from files in
/proc and /sys file systems that report somewhat-incorrect file sizes.
mkdir --parents -Z now correctly sets the context for the last component,
even if the parent directory exists and has a different default context.
[bug introduced with the -Z restorecon functionality in coreutils-8.22]
numfmt no longer outputs incorrect overflowed values seen with certain
large numbers, or with numbers with increased precision.
[bug introduced when numfmt was added in coreutils-8.21]
numfmt now handles leading zeros correctly, not counting them when
settings processing limits, and making them optional with floating point.
[bug introduced when numfmt was added in coreutils-8.21]
paste no longer truncates output for large input files. This would happen
for example with files larger than 4GiB on 32 bit systems with a '\n'
character at the 4GiB position.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
rm indicates the correct number of arguments in its confirmation prompt,
on all platforms. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
shuf -i with a single redundant operand, would crash instead of issuing
a diagnostic. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
tail releases inotify resources when unused. Previously it could exhaust
resources with many files, or with -F if files were replaced many times.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
tail -f again follows changes to a file after it's renamed.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
tail --follow no longer misses changes to files if those files were
replaced before inotify watches were created.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
tail --follow consistently outputs all data for a truncated file.
[bug introduced in the beginning]
tail --follow=name correctly outputs headers for multiple files
when those files are being created or renamed.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
** New features
chroot accepts the new --skip-chdir option to not change the working directory
to "/" after changing into the chroot(2) jail, thus retaining the current wor-
king directory. The new option is only permitted if the new root directory is
the old "/", and therefore is useful with the --group and --userspec options.
dd accepts a new status=progress level to print data transfer statistics
on stderr approximately every second.
numfmt can now process multiple fields with field range specifications similar
to cut, and supports setting the output precision with the --format option.
split accepts a new --separator option to select a record separator character
other than the default newline character.
stty allows setting the "extproc" option where supported, which is
a useful setting with high latency links.
sync no longer ignores arguments, and syncs each specified file, or with the
--file-system option, the file systems associated with each specified file.
tee accepts a new --output-error option to control operation with pipes
and output errors in general.
** Changes in behavior
df no longer suppresses separate exports of the same remote device, as
these are generally explicitly mounted. The --total option does still
suppress duplicate remote file systems.
[suppression was introduced in coreutils-8.21]
mv no longer supports moving a file to a hardlink, instead issuing an error.
The implementation was susceptible to races in the presence of multiple mv
instances, which could result in both hardlinks being deleted. Also on case
insensitive file systems like HFS, mv would just remove a hardlinked 'file'
if called like `mv file File`. The feature was added in coreutils-5.0.1.
numfmt --from-unit and --to-unit options now interpret suffixes as SI units,
and IEC (power of 2) units are now specified by appending 'i'.
tee will exit early if there are no more writable outputs.
tee does not treat the file operand '-' as meaning standard output any longer,
for better conformance to POSIX. This feature was added in coreutils-5.3.0.
timeout --foreground no longer sends SIGCONT to the monitored process,
which was seen to cause intermittent issues with GDB for example.
** Improvements
cp,install,mv will convert smaller runs of NULs in the input to holes,
and cp --sparse=always avoids speculative preallocation on XFS for example.
cp will read sparse files more efficiently when the destination is a
non regular file. For example when copying a disk image to a device node.
mv will try a reflink before falling back to a standard copy, which is
more efficient when moving files across BTRFS subvolume boundaries.
stat and tail now know about IBRIX. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file
system type, and tail -f uses polling for files on IBRIX file systems.
wc -l processes short lines much more efficiently.
References from --help and the man pages of utilities have been corrected
in various cases, and more direct links to the corresponding online
documentation are provided.
This is to announce coreutils-8.23, a stable release.
There have been 157 commits by 23 people in the 31 weeks since 8.22
Executive summary: 8.23 is mainly a bug fix.
df(1) has had many fixes to better handle the more dynamic nature
of the list of mounted file systems presented by modern systems.
Various static and runtime analysis tools were used to identify
undefined and problematic behaviour, which was fixed in sort and ptx.
A significant new feature added was the ability to build coreutils
as a single multi-call binary, thus reducing the amount of storage
space needed for an installation. This is enabled with the
new --enable-single-binary configure option.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Aleksej Serdjukov (1) Jarkko Sakkinen (1)
Alex Deymo (2) Jim Meyering (12)
Assaf Gordon (4) John (1)
Ben Walton (2) Namhyung Kim (2)
Benno Schulenberg (1) Nicolas Iooss (1)
Bernhard Voelker (15) Niels Möller (1)
Chengwei Yang (1) Paul Eggert (18)
David Michael (1) Petr Stodůlka (1)
Dylan Simon (1) Pádraig Brady (90)
Edgars Irmejs (1) Shayan Pooya (1)
Edward Welbourne (1) Алексей Шилин (1)
Guilherme de Almeida Suckev
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.23
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.22..v8.23
To summarize the 150 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.23
git submodule summary v8.22
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.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 coreutils-8.23.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.14.1
Gnulib v0.1-186-g71be4c8
Bison 2.7
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.23 (2014-07-18) [stable]
** Bug fixes
chmod -Rc no longer issues erroneous warnings for files with special bits set.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
cp -a, mv, and install --preserve-context, once again set the correct SELinux
context for existing directories in the destination. Previously they set
the context of an existing directory to that of its last copied descendent.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
cp -a, mv, and install --preserve-context, no longer seg fault when running
with SELinux enabled, when copying from file systems that return an error
when reading the SELinux context for a file.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
cp -a and mv now preserve xattrs of symlinks copied across file systems.
[bug introduced with extended attribute preservation feature in coreutils-7.1]
date could crash or go into an infinite loop when parsing a malformed TZ="".
[bug introduced with the --date='TZ="" ..' parsing feature in coreutils-5.3.0]
dd's ASCII and EBCDIC conversions were incompatible with common practice and
with POSIX, and have been corrected as follows. First, conv=ascii now
implies conv=unblock, and conv=ebcdic and conv=ibm now imply conv=block.
Second, the translation tables for dd conv=ascii and conv=ebcdic have been
corrected as shown in the following table, where A is the ASCII value, W is
the old, wrong EBCDIC value, and E is the new, corrected EBCDIC value; all
values are in octal.
A W E
041 117 132
133 112 255
135 132 275
136 137 232
174 152 117
176 241 137
313 232 152
325 255 112
345 275 241
[These dd bugs were present in "the beginning".]
df has more fixes related to the newer dynamic representation of file systems:
Duplicates are elided for virtual file systems like tmpfs.
Details for the correct device are output for points mounted multiple times.
Placeholder values are output for inaccessible file systems, rather than
than error messages or values for the wrong file system.
[These bugs were present in "the beginning".]
df now outputs all appropriate entries in the presence of bind mounts.
On some systems, entries would have been incorrectly elided due to
them being considered "dummy" mounts.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
du now silently ignores directory cycles introduced with bind mounts.
Previously it would issue a warning and exit with a failure status.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
head --bytes=-N and --lines=-N now handles devices more
consistently, not ignoring data from virtual devices like /dev/zero,
or on BSD systems data from tty devices.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.0.1]
head --bytes=-N - no longer fails with a bogus diagnostic when stdin's
seek pointer is not at the beginning.
[bug introduced with the --bytes=-N feature in coreutils-5.0.1]
head --lines=-0, when the input does not contain a trailing '\n',
now copies all input to stdout. Previously nothing was output in this case.
[bug introduced with the --lines=-N feature in coreutils-5.0.1]
id, when invoked with no user name argument, now prints the correct group ID.
Previously, in the default output format, it would print the default group ID
in the password database, which may be neither real nor effective. For e.g.,
when run set-GID, or when the database changes outside the current session.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
ln -sf now replaces symbolic links whose targets can't exist. Previously
it would display an error, requiring --no-dereference to avoid the issue.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
ln -sr '' F no longer segfaults. Now works as expected.
[bug introduced with the --relative feature in coreutils-8.16]
numfmt now handles blanks correctly in all unibyte locales. Previously
in locales where character 0xA0 is a blank, numfmt would mishandle it.
[bug introduced when numfmt was added in coreutils-8.21]
ptx --format long option parsing no longer falls through into the --help case.
[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_22i]
ptx now consistently trims whitespace when processing multiple files.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
seq again generates correct output with start or end values = -0.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.20.]
shuf --repeat no longer dumps core if the input is empty.
[bug introduced with the --repeat feature in coreutils-8.22]
sort when using multiple threads now avoids undefined behavior with mutex
destruction, which could cause deadlocks on some implementations.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
tail -f now uses polling mode for VXFS to cater for its clustered mode.
[bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
** New features
od accepts a new option: --endian=TYPE to handle inputs with different byte
orders, or to provide consistent output on systems with disparate endianness.
configure accepts the new option --enable-single-binary to build all the
selected programs in a single binary called "coreutils". The selected
programs can still be called directly using symlinks to "coreutils" or
shebangs with the option --coreutils-prog= passed to this program. The
install behavior is determined by the option --enable-single-binary=symlinks
or --enable-single-binary=shebangs (the default). With the symlinks option,
you can't make a second symlink to any program because that will change the
name of the called program, which is used by coreutils to determine the
desired program. The shebangs option doesn't suffer from this problem, but
the /proc/$pid/cmdline file might not be updated on all the platforms. The
functionality of each program is not affected but this single binary will
depend on all the required dynamic libraries even to run simple programs.
If you desire to build some tools outside the single binary file, you can
pass the option --enable-single-binary-exceptions=PROG_LIST with the comma
separated list of programs you want to build separately. This flag
considerably reduces the overall size of the installed binaries which makes
it suitable for embedded system.
** Changes in behavior
chroot with an argument of "/" no longer implicitly changes the current
directory to "/", allowing changing only user credentials for a command.
chroot --userspec will now unset supplemental groups associated with root,
and instead use the supplemental groups of the specified user.
cut -d$'\n' again outputs lines identified in the --fields list, having
not done so in v8.21 and v8.22. Note using this non portable functionality
will result in the delayed output of lines.
ls with none of LS_COLORS or COLORTERM environment variables set,
will now honor an empty or unknown TERM environment variable,
and not output colors even with --colors=always.
** Improvements
chroot has better --userspec and --group look-ups, with numeric IDs never
causing name look-up errors. Also look-ups are first done outside the chroot,
in case the look-up within the chroot fails due to library conflicts etc.
install now allows the combination of the -D and -t options.
numfmt supports zero padding of numbers using the standard printf
syntax of a leading zero, for example --format="%010f".
Also throughput was improved by up to 800% by avoiding redundant processing.
shred now supports multiple passes on GNU/Linux tape devices by rewinding
the tape before each pass, avoids redundant writes to empty files,
uses direct I/O for all passes where possible, and attempts to clear
inode storage used for small files on some file systems.
split avoids unnecessary input buffering, immediately writing input to output
which is significant with --filter or when writing to fifos or stdout etc.
stat and tail work better with HFS+, HFSX, LogFS and ConfigFS. stat -f
--format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify,
rather than the default of issuing a warning and reverting to polling.
There have been 195 commits by 32 people in the 10 months since 8.21
Executive summary: 8.22 is mainly a bug fix and performance improvement release.
tail(1) has fixes for handling initially non existent files, and df now has
better handling of specified disk device nodes. On the performance side,
there have been many improvements to the memory usage of various tools, which
are detailed at http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/avoiding_large_buffers.html
There have been large throughput improvements in cut(1) and base64 encoding.
Also the md5sum and sha*sum utilities have support for using architecture
specific routines to improve performance, if allowed on your distribution.
There are also new features available, including SELinux "restorecon" support
in various file creation utilities through the -Z option, and shred has a new
--repeat option to continually select random items from the input.
See the NEWS below for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Andreas Mohr (1)
Anton Ovchinnikov (2)
Assaf Gordon (8)
Benno Schulenberg (2)
Bernhard Voelker (28)
Cojocaru Alexandru (4)
Colin Leitner (1)
D. Hugh Redelmeier (1)
Daniel J Walsh (1)
Enrico Scholz (1)
Eric Blake (1)
FUJIWARA Katsunori (1)
Filipus Klutiero (1)
Gian Piero Carrubba (1)
Jarkko Sakkinen (4)
Javier López (1)
Jim Meyering (6)
Joachim Schmitz (2)
John (1)
Karl Berry (1)
Ken Booth (1)
Mike Frysinger (1)
Ondrej Oprala (2)
Ondřej Vašík (2)
Paul Eggert (10)
Pádraig Brady (106)
Rasmus Villemoes (1)
Rémy Lefevre (1)
Sergio Durigan Junior (1)
Stefano Lattarini (3)
Tiger Lee (1)
Torbjörn Granlund (1)
Special thanks to Bernhard Voelker for his many considered patches and reviews,
and to Assaf Gordon for his work on new (and future) features.
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.22
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.21..v8.22
To summarize the 255 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.22
git submodule summary v8.21
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.22.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.22.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
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[*] 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 coreutils-8.22.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.13.4
Gnulib v0.1-38-g0658e50
Bison 2.7
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.22 (2013-12-13) [stable]
** Bug fixes
df now processes the mount list correctly in the presence of unstatable
mount points. Previously it may have failed to output some mount points.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.21]
df now processes symbolic links and relative paths to special files containing
a mounted file system correctly. Previously df displayed the statistics about
the file system the file is stored on rather than the one inside.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
df now processes disk device nodes correctly in the presence of bind mounts.
Now df shows the base mounted file system rather than the last one mounted.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
install now removes the target file if the strip program failed for any
reason. Before, that file was left behind, sometimes even with wrong
permissions.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
ln --relative now updates existing symlinks correctly. Previously it based
the relative link on the dereferenced path of an existing link.
[This bug was introduced when --relative was added in coreutils-8.16.]
ls --recursive will no longer exit with "serious" exit code (2), if there
is an error reading a directory not specified on the command line.
[Bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
mkdir, mkfifo, and mknod now work better when creating a file in a directory
with a default ACL whose umask disagrees with the process's umask, on a
system such as GNU/Linux where directory ACL umasks override process umasks.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
mv will now replace empty directories in the destination with directories
from the source, when copying across file systems.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
od -wN with N larger than 64K on a system with 32-bit size_t would
print approximately 2*N bytes of extraneous padding.
[Bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
rm -I now prompts for confirmation before removing a write protected file.
[Bug introduced in coreutils-6.8]
shred once again uses direct I/O on systems requiring aligned buffers.
Also direct I/O failures for odd sized writes at end of file are now handled.
[The "last write" bug was introduced in coreutils-5.3.0 but masked
by the alignment bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
tail --retry -f now waits for the files specified to appear. Before, tail
would immediately exit when such a file is initially inaccessible.
[This bug was introduced when inotify support was added in coreutils-7.5]
tail -F has improved handling of symlinks. Previously tail didn't respond
to the symlink target (re)appearing after being (re)created.
[This bug was introduced when inotify support was added in coreutils-7.5]
** New features
cp, install, mkdir, mknod, mkfifo and mv now support "restorecon"
functionality through the -Z option, to set the SELinux context
appropriate for the new item location in the file system.
csplit accepts a new option: --suppressed-matched, to elide the lines
used to identify the split points.
df --output now accepts a 'file' field, to propagate a specified
command line argument through to the output.
du accepts a new option: --inodes to show the number of inodes instead
of the blocks used.
id accepts a new option: --zero (-z) to delimit the output entries by
a NUL instead of a white space character.
id and ls with -Z report the SMACK security context where available.
mkdir, mkfifo and mknod with -Z set the SMACK context where available.
id can now lookup by user ID, in addition to the existing name lookup.
join accepts a new option: --zero-terminated (-z). As with the sort,uniq
option of the same name, this makes join consume and produce NUL-terminated
lines rather than newline-terminated lines.
uniq accepts a new option: --group to print all items, while separating
unique groups with empty lines.
shred accepts new parameters to the --remove option to give greater
control over that operation, which can greatly reduce sync overhead.
shuf accepts a new option: --repeat (-r), which can repeat items in
the output.
** Changes in behavior
cp --link now dereferences a symbolic link as source before creating the
hard link in the destination unless the -P,--no-deref option is specified.
Previously, it would create a hard link of the symbolic link, even when
the dereferencing options -L or -H were specified.
cp, install, mkdir, mknod and mkfifo no longer accept an argument to the
short -Z option. The --context equivalent still takes an optional argument.
dd status=none now suppresses all non fatal diagnostic messages,
not just the transfer counts.
df no longer accepts the long-obsolescent --megabytes option.
stdbuf now requires at least one buffering mode option to be specified,
as per the documented interface.
** Improvements
base64 encoding throughput for bulk data is increased by about 60%.
md5sum can use libcrypto hash routines where allowed to potentially
get better performance through using more system specific logic.
sha1sum for example has improved throughput by 40% on an i3-2310M.
This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
stat and tail work better with EFIVARFS, EXOFS, F2FS, HOSTFS, SMACKFS, SNFS
and UBIFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f
now uses inotify for files on all those except SNFS, rather than the default
(for unknown file system types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling.
shuf outputs subsets of large inputs much more efficiently.
Reservoir sampling is used to limit memory usage based on the number of
outputs, rather than the number of inputs.
shred increases the default write block size from 12KiB to 64KiB
to align with other utilities and reduce the system call overhead.
split --line-bytes=SIZE, now only allocates memory as needed rather
than allocating SIZE bytes at program start.
stty now supports configuring "stick" (mark/space) parity where available.
** Build-related
factor now builds on aarch64 based systems [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
This is to announce coreutils-8.21, a stable release.
There have been 121 commits by 18 poeple in the 16 weeks since 8.20.
Executive summary: 8.21 is mainly a bug fix release, including fixes
for recent regressions in cp, factor and seq. cut has received fixes for
many long standing issues. df is updated to better handle newer systems
that link /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts, and also provides a new --output
option to control which fields to display. A new numfmt utility was
included to provide various number formating and conversion functions.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Assaf Gordon (7):
Benno Schulenberg (6):
Bernhard Voelker (24):
Cojocaru Alexandru (2):
Colin Watson (1):
Daniel Schepler (1):
Jakob Truelsen (1):
Jim Meyering (13):
Karl Berry (2):
Mike Frysinger (2):
Ondrej Oprala (2):
Ondřej Vašík (1):
Paul Eggert (12):
Pádraig Brady (46):
Stefano Lattarini (1):
Stephan Krempel (1):
Zartaj Majeed (1):
Ángel González (1):
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.21
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.20..v8.21
To summarize the 173 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.21
git submodule summary v8.20
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.21.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.21.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
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[*] 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 coreutils-8.21.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.68
Automake 1.11.6
Gnulib v0.0-7848-g4a82904
Bison 2.4.3
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.21 (2013-02-14) [stable]
** New programs
numfmt: reformat numbers
** New features
df now accepts the --output[=FIELD_LIST] option to define the list of columns
to include in the output, or all available columns if the FIELD_LIST is
omitted. Note this enables df to output both block and inode fields together.
du now accepts the --threshold=SIZE option to restrict the output to entries
with such a minimum SIZE (or a maximum SIZE if it is negative).
du recognizes -t SIZE as equivalent, for compatibility with FreeBSD.
** Bug fixes
cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer exits non-zero.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
cut with a range like "N-" no longer allocates N/8 bytes. That buffer
would never be used, and allocation failure could cause cut to fail.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.10]
cut no longer accepts the invalid range 0-, which made it print empty lines.
Instead, cut now fails and emits an appropriate diagnostic.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
cut now handles overlapping to-EOL ranges properly. Before, it would
interpret "-b2-,3-" like "-b3-". Now it's treated like "-b2-".
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
cut no longer prints extraneous delimiters when a to-EOL range subsumes
another range. Before, "echo 123|cut --output-delim=: -b2-,3" would print
"2:3". Now it prints "23". [bug introduced in 5.3.0]
cut -f no longer inspects input line N+1 before fully outputting line N,
which avoids delayed output for intermittent input.
[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_8b]
factor no longer loops infinitely on 32 bit powerpc or sparc systems.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
install -m M SOURCE DEST no longer has a race condition where DEST's
permissions are temporarily derived from SOURCE instead of from M.
pr -n no longer crashes when passed values >= 32. Also, line numbers are
consistently padded with spaces, rather than with zeros for certain widths.
[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_22i]
seq -w ensures that for numbers input in scientific notation,
the output numbers are properly aligned and of the correct width.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
seq -w ensures correct alignment when the step value includes a precision
while the start value does not, and the number sequence narrows.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
seq -s no longer prints an erroneous newline after the first number, and
outputs a newline after the last number rather than a trailing separator.
Also seq no longer ignores a specified step value when the end value is 1.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-8.20]
timeout now ensures that blocking of ALRM signals is not inherited from
its parent, which would cause timeouts to be ignored.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
** Changes in behavior
df --total now prints '-' into the target column (mount point) of the
summary line, accommodating the --output option where the target field
can be in any column. If there is no source column, then df prints
'total' in the target column.
df now properly outputs file system information with bind mounts present on
the system by skipping duplicate entries (identified by the device number).
Consequently, df also elides the early-boot pseudo file system type "rootfs".
nl no longer supports the --page-increment option, which has been
deprecated since coreutils-7.5. Use --line-increment instead.
** Improvements
readlink now supports multiple arguments, and a complementary
-z, --zero option to delimit output items with the NUL character.
stat and tail now know about CEPH. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file
system type, and tail -f uses polling for files on CEPH file systems.
stty now supports configuring DTR/DSR hardware flow control where available.
** Build-related
Perl is now more of a prerequisite. It has long been required in order
to run (not skip) a significant percentage of the tests. Now, it is
also required in order to generate proper man pages, via help2man. The
generated man/*.1 man pages are no longer distributed. Building without
perl, you would create stub man pages. Thus, while perl is not an
official prerequisite (build and "make check" will still succeed), any
resulting man pages would be inferior. In addition, this fixes a bug
in distributed (not from clone) Makefile.in that could cause parallel
build failure when building from modified sources, as is common practice
for a patched distribution package.
factor now builds on x86_64 with x32 ABI, 32 bit MIPS, and all HPPA systems,
by avoiding incompatible asm. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
A root-only test predicate would always fail. Its job was to determine
whether our dummy user, $NON_ROOT_USERNAME, was able to run binaries from
the build directory. As a result, all dependent tests were always skipped.
Now, those tests may be run once again. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
This is to announce coreutils-8.20, a stable release.
There have been 173 commits by 15 people in the 9 weeks since 8.19.
Executive summary: 8.20 is mainly a bug fix release, including an important
regression fix for cp since 8.11, where cp could corrupt copies on very
fragmented sparse input files. A regression fix for factor since 7.0 was
included where it could output some composite numbers as prime.
The core of factor was rewritten to be much faster, and seq also
received a large performance boost (up to 70x) in the common case of
integers being incremented by 1.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Benno Schulenberg (3)
Bernhard Voelker (4)
Eric Blake (2)
Erik Auerswald (1)
Jim Meyering (60)
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1)
Nick Alcock (1)
Niels Möller (1)
Nikolas Kallis (1)
Ondrej Oprala (3)
Pozsár Balázs (1)
Pádraig Brady (14)
Rob Day (1)
Stefano Lattarini (78)
Torbjörn Granlund (3)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
==================================================================
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.20
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.19..v8.20
To summarize the 94 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.20
git submodule summary v8.19
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.20.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.20.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
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[*] 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 coreutils-8.20.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 DF6FD971306037D9
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.68
Automake 1.11.6
Gnulib v0.0-7675-gd245e6d
Bison 2.4.3
NEWS
** New features
dd now accepts 'status=none' to suppress all informational output.
md5sum now accepts the --tag option to print BSD-style output with GNU
file name escaping. This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum,
sha384sum and sha512sum.
** Bug fixes
cp could read from freed memory and could even make corrupt copies.
This could happen with a very fragmented and sparse input file,
on GNU/Linux file systems supporting fiemap extent scanning.
This bug also affects mv when it resorts to copying, and install.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.11]
cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer preserves the original file's
permissions but correctly sets mode specified by 0666 & ~umask
du no longer emits a "disk-corrupted"-style diagnostic when it detects
a directory cycle that is due to a bind-mounted directory. Instead,
it detects this precise type of cycle, diagnoses it as such and
eventually exits nonzero.
factor (when using gmp) would mistakenly declare some composite numbers
to be prime, e.g., 465658903, 2242724851, 6635692801 and many more.
The fix makes factor somewhat slower (~25%) for ranges of consecutive
numbers, and up to 8 times slower for some worst-case individual numbers.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.0, with GNU MP support]
ls now correctly colors dangling symlinks when listing their containing
directories, with orphaned symlink coloring disabled in LS_COLORS.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.14]
rm -i -d now prompts the user then removes an empty directory, rather
than ignoring the -d option and failing with an 'Is a directory' error.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.19, with the addition of --dir (-d)]
rm -r S/ (where S is a symlink-to-directory) no longer gives the invalid
"Too many levels of symbolic links" diagnostic.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
seq now handles arbitrarily long non-negative whole numbers when the
increment is 1 and when no format-changing option is specified.
Before, this would infloop:
b=100000000000000000000; seq $b $b
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
** Changes in behavior
nproc now diagnoses with an error, non option command line parameters.
** Improvements
factor's core has been rewritten for speed and increased range.
It can now factor numbers up to 2^128, even without GMP support.
Its speed is from a few times better (for small numbers) to over
10,000 times better (just below 2^64). The new code also runs a
deterministic primality test for each prime factor, not just a
probabilistic test.
seq is now up to 70 times faster than it was in coreutils-8.19 and prior,
but only with non-negative whole numbers, an increment of 1, and no
format-changing options.
stat and tail know about ZFS, VZFS and VMHGFS. stat -f --format=%T now
reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify for files on
ZFS and VZFS file systems, rather than the default (for unknown file
system types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling. tail -f
still uses polling for files on VMHGFS file systems.
** Build-related
root-only tests now check for permissions of our dummy user,
$NON_ROOT_USERNAME, before trying to run binaries from the build directory.
Before, we would get hard-to-diagnose reports of failing root-only tests.
Now, those tests are skipped with a useful diagnostic when the root tests
are run without following the instructions in README.
We now build most directories using non-recursive make rules. I.e.,
rather than running make in man/, lib/, src/, tests/, instead, the top
level Makefile.am includes a $dir/local.mk that describes how to build
the targets in the corresponding directory. Two directories remain
unconverted: po/, gnulib-tests/. One nice side-effect is that the more
accurate dependencies have eliminated a nagging occasional failure that
was seen when running parallel "make syntax-check".
This is to announce coreutils-8.19, a stable release.
There have been 13 commits by 4 people in the 8 days since 8.18.
This release is primarily to fix two data loss bugs in sort -u.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
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.
Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
git shortlog v8.18..v8.19
To summarize the 9 gnulib-related changes, run these commands from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.19
git submodule summary v8.18
or use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
[*] 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 coreutils-8.19.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:
perl -le 'print "a\n"."0"x900'|valgrind sort --p=1 -S32b -u
New features
This is to announce coreutils-8.18, a stable release.
There have been 72 commits by 11 people in the 13 weeks since 8.17.
Executive summary: 8.18 removes the su program, fixes an 8.17 regression in ls --color and tweaks sort's memory constraints. All other fixes are for old (present since "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:
Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
git shortlog v8.17..v8.18
To summarize the 197 gnulib-related changes, run these commands from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.18
git submodule summary v8.17
or use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
[*] 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 coreutils-8.18.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:
New features
Changes in behavior
Improvements