I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.13 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. 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 <bug-findutils-requ...@gnu.org>. 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. I'd like to thank the following people for their contributions to this and other recent releases: Bernhard Voelker Eric Blake Eric S. Raymond Benedikt Morbach * Major changes in release 4.5.13, 2014-07-16 ** Documentation Changes Some minor documentation improvements are listed in "Bug Fixes" below. ** Bug Fixes #40339: Fix leaked directory handle when listing mounted file systems. #40094: The xargs --help output has a small number of cosmetic improvements. #39197: Small fix to find's manual page to remove an unwanted backslash, which made the troff incompatible with Eric Raymond's doclifter software. #39162: -printf reads beyond arguments terminated by \ #35753: Check the success/failure of material I/O operations where these are important to the use of the output (i.e. check the output for "find -ok" but not debugging output). #31005: The find manual page and Texinfo manual now more clearly state that -exec ... + always returns true. ** Translations Updated translations: Estonian, Polish, Ukranian. -- James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> GNU findutils maintainer
