We plan to release coreutils-8.21 next week, so any testing you can do between now and Tuesday would be most welcome.
Here's the NEWS: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS coreutils snapshot: http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 5.1 MB http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-8.20.113-1f1f4.tar.xz ========================================================== Changes in coreutils since v8.20: Assaf Gordon (6): maint: adjust HACKING instructions to run a single test doc: mention "git stash" in HACKING maint: update gitignore entries doc: tweak 'lcov' in HACKING numfmt: a new command to format numbers doc: fix a numfmt help section typo Benno Schulenberg (5): doc: with cp -n, option -f is not redundant but ignored doc: chcon: add descriptions for three undocumented options doc: make a --help text fragment identical to three others uptime: gettextize an overlooked string, and normalize another maint: improve error messages upon failed read, write, access, close Bernhard Voelker (23): tests: shorten factor's inordinately-long test file names tests: fix syntax error in setuidgid_has_perm_ maint: fix factor's test file name pattern in .gitignore df: add --output to select which fields to display df: document the new --output option df: add a test for the --output option tests: fix factor's tests to use coreutil's own sha1sum cut: do not accept the invalid range 0- doc: remove already implemented items from TODO nl: remove deprecated --page-increment option df: reorder default field list of --output option doc: cp: clarify behavior of the --preserve=xattr option maint: remove now auto-added entry from THANKS.in tests: fix regex to match "-" in ipcent field in df/total-verify.sh cp: fix --no-preserve=mode to not exit 1 maint: fix typos found by misspellings tail,stat: improve support for the ceph file system tests: add tests for basename's --zero option maint: fix alphabetical order in .gitignore tests: remove test case du/slink maint: define usage note about mandatory args centrally doc: fix order of du options in usage and texinfo manual df: do not treat rootfs specially Cojocaru Alexandru (2): cut: improve error reporting cut: avoid a redundant heap allocation Colin Watson (1): factor: fix infinite loop on 32 bit powerpc Daniel Schepler (1): build: fix compilation failure on x32 Jakob Truelsen (1): du: add -t SIZE, --threshold=SIZE option Jim Meyering (13): maint: remove an obsolete test comment maint: tweak sc_check-I18N-AUTHORS maint: avoid unnecessary #include to fix syntax-check failure maint: avoid i686-specific syntax-check failure maint: correct indentation of W_TYPE_SIZE-defining cpp directives maint: reenable accidentally-disabled cppi-check syntax-check rule cut: treat -b2-,3- like -b2-, not like -b3- cut: do not print extraneous delimiters in some unusual cases tests: add test case and note that last week's cut change is a bug fix maint: adjust NEWS entry wording build: update gnulib submodule to latest maint: update all copyright year number ranges tests: avoid actual/expected mismatch due to changed diagnostic Karl Berry (2): doc: remove stale pr news in the manual doc: avoid @sc in texinfo; it is unnecessary Mike Frysinger (2): build: do not redefine _FORTIFY_SOURCE factor: disable x86_64 assembly code for x32 builds Ondrej Oprala (2): df: do not print duplicate entries and rootfs by default df: prefer fullpath entries when deduplicating Ondřej Vašík (1): stty: add support for DTR/DSR hardware control flow Paul Eggert (12): df: port the new df test to POSIX sed, larger file systems factor: port to systems with rpl_malloc factor: maintainer builds primes.h, not builder factor: improve primes.h change factor: cleanup for primes.h factor: tidy up primes.h again doc: explain why dd is called "dd" install: fix security race install: fix security race doc: sync parse-datetime from gnulib build: update gnulib submodule to latest doc: say how to tac char-by-char Pádraig Brady (38): maint: post-release administrivia maint: refactor tests/misc/pr.pl into tests/pr/pr-tests.pl build: ensure factor links the iconv library pr: fix -n to pad consistently and not crash build: don't rely on support for '%*j' printf format build: don't rely on support for '%j' printf format build: don't assume uintmax_t is 64 bits build: avoid build failure on some HPPA systems maint: fix the error message from sc_check-I18N-AUTHORS seq: ensure correct output width for scientific notation input tests: don't rely on sed -i being available tests: accept EEXIST from rm -d doc: clarify that renice is needed to adjust niceness tests: use sub-second timeouts to speed up a timeout test doc: update info cross reference to bash maint: remove a redundant odd sized alloc from factor.c maint: adjust instructions to run a single test tests: cut.pl: adjust for changed diagnostic maint: fix a referenced coreutils version in a test comment readlink: support multiple command line arguments maint: consistently use @dots{} in coreutils.texi build: avoid --enable-gcc-warnings on GCC <= 4.5 tests: avoid a race in timeout-group.sh doc: clarify when dd iflag=fullblock is useful maint: rewrap a long line noticed by make syntax-check seq: fix newline output when -s specified dd: fix a printf format mismatch in an error message tests: avoid false positive valgrind failures doc: improve od --help and man page factor: apply a more general fix to enable correct assembly doc: fix an example in the od man page cut: with -f, process each line independently cut: fix -f to work with the -d$'\n' edge case seq: fix misaligment with -w when no precision for start value seq: fix to always honor the step value cut: fix a segfault with disjoint open ended ranges numfmt: correct a printf format build: update gnulib submodule; also bootstrap to latest Stefano Lattarini (1): build: man page generation: degrade gracefully when perl is lacking Stephan Krempel (1): timeout: ensure a blocked SIGALRM from the parent is unblocked Zartaj Majeed (1): build: fix cygwin build issues Ángel González (1): timeout: add --preserve-status to always propagate the exit status