I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.5 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 4.5.x release series is intended to allow people to try out, comment on or contribute to new features of findutils. During the 4.5.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). 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. Please note that the key being used is not the same as the key that was used to sign previous releases. * Major changes in release 4.5.5, 2009-07-06 xargs now handles the case where the system's actual exec limits are smaller than the value of ARG_MAX at compile time. Very few platforms normally have this property, but it is possible to configure some Unix systems this way. ** Bug Fixes #26587: Fix a typo in -execdir documentation (it says -exec by mistake in the text). #26537: find -prune now makes sure it has valid stat() information. #22708: Exit status 126 and 127 from the utility invoked from xargs now makes xargs return 123, meaning that exit status values 126 and 127 now unambigously mean that the utility could not be run or could not be found, respectively. -- James Youngman <[email protected]> GNU findutils maintainer
