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coreutils-8.19 released (fixes sort -u data loss bugs)

Item posted by Jim Meyering <meyering> on Mon 20 Aug 2012 08:13:40 AM UTC.

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]




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 v8.18..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




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-8.19.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:




NEWS

Bug fixes




perl -le 'print "a\n"."0"x900'|valgrind sort --p=1 -S32b -u


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