I checked the git log since c67264238d9487d5313a131674cd7a01ca299927 for things we had missed out of the NEWS file and made some small changes. I pushed the attached patch.
From 3e01056d635f5df0ab239958baef590a5e998ac1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Youngman <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 22:52:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: add a 2024 POSIX change and predict the future of -perm /000.
* NEWS (Documentation Changes): "find -iname" is in IEEE Std 1003.1-2024. Improvements to the portability of the man pages to other nroff implementations. (Future Changes): we're going to remove the warning about -perm /000 in a future release. --- NEWS | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cffd084f..f64d292c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -58,8 +58,10 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) ** Documentation Changes - The forthcoming Issue 8 of the POSIX standard will standardise "find - -print0" and "xargs -0". Our documentation now points this out. + The most recent version of the POSIX standard (IEEE Std 1003.1-2024, + also known as The Open Group Base Specifications, Issue 8) has + standardised "find -print0" and "xargs -0". Our documentation now + points this out. Similarly for 'find -iname'. The code example for "Finding the Shallowest Instance" in the Texinfo manual and the corresponding one in the EXAMPLES section in the find.1 man page have @@ -70,7 +72,14 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) The list of actions that suppress the default -print action has been supplemented with the missing '-print0' and '-fprint0' actions. + The manual pages have been updated to give better and/or more + consistent output with manpage formatters other than GNU roff. +** Future Changes + + A future release will remove the warning message find prints about + the 2007 change in the meaning of "-perm /000". Everybody who is + likely to care probably knows about this change by now. * Noteworthy changes in release 4.10.0 (2024-06-01) [stable] ** Bug Fixes -- 2.47.3
