I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.1 of GNU findutils. GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.
This is a "development" release of findutils, and in fact it is the first release in a new development branch. This release is largely similar to the recent stable release 4.4.0 with some changes described below. Findutils 4.5.x can be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. The 4.5.x release series is intended to allow people to try out, comment on or contribute to new features of findutils. During the 4.5.x release series some features may be introduced and then changed or removed as a result of feedback or experience. In short, please don't rely on backward compatibility later in the release series. While this is a development release, it is tested before being released, principally with the regression test suite (run "make check" to use it). The Savannah website (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils) contains a current list of known bugs in findutils (for both the stable and development branches). Bugs in GNU findutils should be reported to the findutils bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils. Reporting bugs via the web interface will ensure that you are automatically informed when the bug has been fixed. General discussion of findutils takes place on the bug-findutils mailing list. To join the 'bug-findutils' mailing list, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public key of the findutils maintainer, James Youngman. You can download this from http://savannah.gnu.org/users/jay. Please note that the key being used is not the same as the key that was used to sign previous releases. * Major changes in release 4.5.1, 2008-06-21 ** Bug Fixes #22662: find -printf %AX appends nanoseconds in the right place now. #23663: crash in some locales for -printf %AX (this problem seems to have affected only the CVS code, and not any public releases). ** Translations New translation: Lithuanian. Updated translations: Chinese (simplified). ** Documentation Enhancements Added a worked example describing how to find the shallowest instances of a given directory name (or names) in a directory hierarchy. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer
