I announce the release of version 4.3.10 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. 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 is primarily a bugfix release. 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/. There is only one change in this release. That change correctly updates the version of the gnulib library used by findutils. Findutils version 4.3.9 claimed to use gnulib 2007-11-10, but in fact because the gnulib CVS repository had moved, the code was out of date. Findutils 4.3.10 fixes this problem. * Major changes in release 4.3.10, 2007-11-13 ** Bug Fixes #21568: findutils gnulib code does not match the date in import-gnulib.config. We now check out the gnulib code via git-cvs-pserver. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer
