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coreutils-8.18 released [stable]

Item posted by Jim Meyering <meyering> on Sun 12 Aug 2012 10:23:14 AM UTC.

*coreutils-8.18*

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]




GNU coreutils home page

For a summary of changes and contributors, see the gitweb shortlog or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:

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




Download

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:


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:




NEWS -- noteworthy changes in coreutils-8.18

Bug fixes










New features


Changes in behavior


Improvements



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