I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.3.4 of GNU findutils.
The main purpose of this release is to fix bugs in findutils-4.3.3. 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. It can be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. The 4.3.x release series is intended to allow people to try out, comment on or contribute to new features of findutils. During the 4.3.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). This release includes a range of changes, including bugfixes, documentation improvements and small functional changes. All the changes since the previous release are summarised below. 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. Alternatively, you could query a PGP keyserver, but you will need to use one that can cope with subkeys containing photos. Many older key servers cannot do this. I use subkeys.pgp.net. I think that one works. See also the "Downloading" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. I would like to thank Eric Blake and the members of the bug-findutils mailing list for their help in preparing this release. * Major changes in release 4.3.4 ** Bug Fixes #19634: Test suite now passes (again) if "." is on your $PATH. #19619: Findutils builds once again on Cygwin. #19617: Nonexistent start points are (once again) diagnosed in ftsfind. This bug affected only findutils-4.3.3. #19616: Fix leaf optimisation and loop detection (which were unreliable in findutils 4.3.3). This bug affected only findutils-4.3.3. #19615: find --version no longer claims to be using FTS_CWDFD when it isn't. This bug affected only findutils-4.3.3. #19613: "find -L . -type f" no longer causes an assertion failure when it encounters a symbolic link loop. This bug affected only findutils-4.3.3. #19605: Issue an error message (and later return nonzero exit status) if a symbolic link loop was encountered during directory traversal. #19484: bigram.c and code.c fail if the first pathname recorded begins with a space #19483: Inconsistent option highlighting in updatedb manpage #18414: Tests for "find -readable" are skipped for the superuser, as on some systems (e.g. Cygwin with an Administrative user) users can read mode-000 files. ** Translations Findutils 4.3.4 includes a translation for the Ukranian language. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
