coreutils 8.20 was released on 2012-10-23 So given the current stack of changes: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=754b2cf8 I think it's worth cutting a release soon.
I was hoping to do a release in maybe 2.5 weeks including, latest gnulib, numfmt, selinux enhancements to cp,mv, and this cut adjustment http://bugs.gnu.org/13498, since there are already a lot of cut fixes in this release. BTW, I'm wary about adding dd [io]flag=seekable support, as I'm unsure of its usefulness. I'm waiting for more +1s on that thread before merging/discarding. So I hope to release a snapshot Jan 30th, and after a week of testing release on Feb 7th. thanks, Pádraig.
