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This is mostly a bug-fix release, but with a significant batch of infrastructure changes coming in through gnulib. Since some of those changes are so new, I've labeled this a test release, but as the subject implies, I believe this release is better than "unstable". Thanks to all of the people who have contributed patches, suggestions, and bug reports. Their names are listed in the ChangeLog files. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the compressed sources: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.8.tar.gz (7.7MB) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.8.tar.bz2 (5.2MB) Here are the xdelta-style diffs: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7-6.8.xdelta (816KB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.8.tar.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.8.tar.bz2.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 76a8f1a9985cfe925f6fbfb84db9b706 coreutils-6.8.tar.gz 85d40c5fa6b42aec4596e6aaae0ec4ee coreutils-6.8.tar.bz2 aac36824b75af4d059abc5166a8b170c coreutils-6.7-6.8.xdelta a816624f710699341f748cab5f81223667279d80 coreutils-6.8.tar.gz 83b221bfb030489c3c9abf705592f9a78ea0fbec coreutils-6.8.tar.bz2 4c572fb4d1be303ca86ed1dffea3abea58909bff coreutils-6.7-6.8.xdelta [*] 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 coreutils-6.8.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 wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys D333CBA1 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.61a Automake 1.10 Bison 2.3a CVS Gnulib sources from 2007-02-24 18:43:15 +0000 ***************** How can you help? ***************** If you're interested in lending a hand, or just want to use the latest versions right now, you can build these programs and run the test suite like this: gzip -dc coreutils-6.8.tar.gz | tar xf - cd coreutils-6.8 ./configure make make -k check >& log grep FAIL log Be sure to use make's -k option so that make doesn't stop just because one of the earlier tests fails. Please report any build problems or test failures to the [email protected] mailing list. There are detailed instructions in the `Reporting bugs:' section of the README file. For further reading, see the coreutils home page http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ and the FAQ list: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ ***************** NEWS ***************** * Noteworthy changes in release 6.8 (2007-02-24) [not-unstable] ** Bug fixes chgrp, chmod, and chown now honor the --preserve-root option. Before, they would warn, yet continuing traversing and operating on /. chmod no longer fails in an environment (e.g., a chroot) with openat support but with insufficient /proc support. "cp --parents F/G D" no longer creates a directory D/F when F is not a directory (and F/G is therefore invalid). "cp --preserve=mode" would create directories that briefly had too-generous permissions in some cases. For example, when copying a directory with permissions 777 the destination directory might temporarily be setgid on some file systems, which would allow other users to create subfiles with the same group as the directory. Fix similar problems with 'install' and 'mv'. cut no longer dumps core for usage like "cut -f2- f1 f2" with two or more file arguments. This was due to a double-free bug, introduced in coreutils-5.3.0. dd bs= operands now silently override any later ibs= and obs= operands, as POSIX and tradition require. "ls -FRL" always follows symbolic links on Linux. Introduced in coreutils-6.0. A cross-partition "mv /etc/passwd ~" (by non-root) now prints a reasonable diagnostic. Before, it would print this: "mv: cannot remove `/etc/passwd': Not a directory". pwd and "readlink -e ." no longer fail unnecessarily when a parent directory is unreadable. "rm -rf /etc/passwd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic. Before it would print nothing. "rm --interactive=never F" no longer prompts for an unwritable F ** New features sort's new --compress-program=PROG option specifies a compression program to use when writing and reading temporary files. This can help save both time and disk space when sorting large inputs. sort accepts the new option -C, which acts like -c except no diagnostic is printed. Its --check option now accepts an optional argument, and --check=quiet and --check=silent are now aliases for -C, while --check=diagnose-first is an alias for -c or plain --check.
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