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idutils-4.5 released [stable]

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

This is to announce a stable release of idutils.
The idutils package contains tools to create and efficiently search
an index of "identifiers" from specified files:

    http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/

Since 4.4 (beta) there have been build and portability improvements,
but little else. It's been almost four years since the preceding stable
release, idutils-4.2. Since *then* there have been interesting changes.
See the NEWS below for a summary.

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

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

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

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify idutils-4.5.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 000BEEEE

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

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

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

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

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

** New features

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

** Bug fixes

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

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

** Bug fixes

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

** Miscellaneous improvements

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