I announce the release of version 4.3.13 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/findutils-4.3.13.tar.gz. 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 bug-fix 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/. I would like to thank Eric Blake, Ralf Wildenhues, Andreas Metzler, Justin Pryzby, Marc Haber and Marc Aurele La France for their help in preparing this release. * Major changes in release 4.3.13, 2008-02-14 ** Bug Fixes #22057: Actually rename the old locate database to the new one atomically, instead of just claiming the rename is atomic in a comment. #22056: -Xtime tests are off by one second (e.g. rm -f x; touch x; find x -mtime 0 should print x). #21960: xargs should collect the exit status of child processes even if the total count of unreaped children has not yet reached the maximum allowed. ** Documentation Fixes Documented various useful techniques with invoking "sh -c" from xargs in the Texinfo documentation. ** Translations Updated the German, Irish, Dutch, Polish and Vietnamese translations. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer
