There have been enough interesting changes that it seems worthwhile to make a release soon. As I see it, the most notable are the new program, stdbuf, and tail's addition of inotify support.
Here are the NEWS entries: --------------------------------------------- ** Bug fixes truncate -s failed to skip all whitespace in the option argument in some locales. sort now correctly ignores fields whose ending position is specified before the start position. Previously in numeric mode the remaining part of the line after the start position was used as the sort key. [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning".] ** New programs stdbuf: A new program to run a command with modified stdio buffering for its standard streams. ** Changes in behavior ls --color: files with multiple hard links are no longer colored differently by default. That can be enabled by changing the LS_COLORS environment variable. You can control that using the MULTIHARDLINK dircolors input variable which corresponds to the 'mh' LS_COLORS item. Note these variables were renamed from 'HARDLINK' and 'hl' which were available since coreutils-7.1 when this feature was introduced. ** New features chroot now accepts the options --userspec and --groups. sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc. tail uses inotify when possible. --------------------------------------------- If anyone has pending patches or unaddressed issues, please report them to this list. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
