[coreutils-announce] coreutils-8.24 released [stable]

From: Pádraig Brady Subject: [coreutils-announce] coreutils-8.24 released [stable] Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 23:19:43 +0100 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To: address@hidden Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden Mail-Followup-To: address@hidden Subject: coreutils-8.24 released [stable] 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 '

' 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. - ----- also posted at: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8309 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVlwp2AAoJEN9v2XEwYDfZeMkP/33R2hgV0mpwMp/LGxiNO7vC TL5bSz9NxwWYlLMX/pSzhrQB3BZRf6xgBxjrxpZEf5RNhfPn/1eITl0rqoxM5AuZ 3UF/4pVDnhxvU7N+bnql5UDkLkSROPPxkCmsAv8O6iXJWxrb29fdAp31SYLmpAAn CLCuA4uxk2mgizRxJTeO+m5KaArCisukcPpROFPA3GEFtJqGeSnLkeTMGul2eWeq H4uz/cHAdG2zsZKX3/zALdwP9odFlUXimHN1+ebFH37E0xxG5IeQsr74u4eL/288 7IS8pCZjnlDG+j4By19YzPXwBX2tYtIeGU6FKHl1tRTPzuB0s02pxJ3upc3DA4jm xaA2S2V/BUpOG5dFwVoGhecxVidFeS6OGG0tEJiV4PXMfNbizK4nRrBxP8aFIr7t 8BE5ZkDJloR6IRz14q82jE2QrI+gRDToZd05rr/DoueoLVVNEKGaARhcA5E7BbmZ mBnRe13A9vbiXz1cSWHtyALYPKkqBz5RTQm1ezqoPV13rGkx0SP7GgJUstPlkbVr 4kkMuTKFu0tljAge4fXpfhOwJYY/p06csZoSGtt3CxwBDBDWuO5lWEfnBW/quVfA do5SL35CYlzVgY0hfQniJxcCBiQLWBgV7nJirTgOT37eWPlSmVSbSOAj0DLbCkTV rPQ2deFSdTy26VYy7JlP =z/aJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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