We plan to release coreutils-8.26 in about a week, so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then would be most welcome.
-------------------------------------- You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.4 MB) from: https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz And verify with gpg or md5sum with: https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = 8b23df84039d6a48291f7f7b1bf81c2c -------------------------------------- To test follow this standard procedure: tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz cd coreutils-8.25.120-ca99c/ ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log -------------------------------------- Changes in coreutils since v8.25 are summarized at http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS and all commits grouped by author are as follows: Antonio Ospite (1): dircolors: highlight Motion JPEG multimedia files Assaf Gordon (6): seq: detect and report I/O errors immediately tests: sort-debug-warn: add progress information lines sort: modify 'leading spaces' debug warning scenarios tests: improve recent seq EPIPE test maint: refactor common expand(1) and unexpand(1) code date: add '--debug' option Bernhard Voelker (11): seq: do not allow 0 as increment value seq: do not allow NaN arguments tests: let mkdir/p-v.sh fail when compare fails maint: fix dependency of man/arch.1 build: update gnulib submodule to latest maint: pacify GCC 6 with -Wnull-dereference maint: add 'returns_' to exclude list in sc_prohibit_and_fail_1 comm: add --total option maint: add build-aux/ar-lib to .gitignore maint: fix 'syntax-check' targets for VPATH builds doc: clarify that readlink's --quiet option is on by default Bishop Bettini (1): doc: fix typo in stdbuf man page Daniel Lockyer (1): date: free timezone variable to avoid valgrind warning Eric Blake (2): test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable build: update gnulib submodule to latest George Burgess IV (1): pinky,who: remove redeclarations of ttyname Göran Uddeborg (1): stty: fix translated --help so the gettext header is not printed Jim Meyering (19): tests: avoid false-failure of split/filter.sh on XFS maint: remove gl/lib/reg*.c.diff; no longer needed maint: avoid new warning from gcc (GCC) 7.0.0 20160503 (experimental) maint: skip a check when en_US.UTF-8 collation rules are broken ptx: avoid new warning/error from upcoming gcc-7.x tr: move decls "down" maint: tr: tweak/make-consistent a pair of loop indices dircolors: recognize .zst and .tzst suffixes gnulib: update to latest, for getprogname fixes who: avoid new warning from upcoming gcc-7 gnulib: update to latest and adapt printf-quote.sh test maint: pr: avoid new GCC 7 warning build: add die.h; avoid new warnings from GCC 7 build: also distribute new file, src/die.h maint: we use die; remove now-unnecessary uses of abort tests: use "returns_" rather than explicit comparison with "$?" tests: use "returns_" rather than explicit comparison with "$?" maint: avoid "make distcheck" failure due to excess .deps directories build: avoid racy failure of "make -jN install" KOBAYASHI Takashi (1): nl: reset numbering for each section Kamil Dudka (5): install: with -Z, set default SELinux context for created directories maint: sort.c: deduplicate code for traversing numbers sort: make -h work with -k and blank used as thousands separator sort: with -h, disallow thousands separator between number and unit ls: allow interruption when reading slow directories Paul Eggert (12): split: fix problems with /dev/zero tests: don't wait forever on GNU/Hurd doc: document sort -o F F danger all: be less strict about usage if POSIX 2008 date ls pr: fix time zone abbrs on SysV platforms maint: work even if argc == INT_MAX maint: simplify partial writes etc. in 'yes' build: update gnulib submodule to latest sort: port to strict C + valgrind cp: use FICLONE instead of BTRFS_IOC_CLONE ls: fix %%b format and precompute more pr: fix integer overflow in buffer size calcs Peter Benie (1): tests: verify that fts diagnoses readdir() failures Philipp Thomas (1): df: improve performance with many mount points Pádraig Brady (54): maint: post-release administrivia build: avoid dynamic linking issue on Solaris sparc split: adjust recent --number changes stat: report type for "prl_fs" file systems tests: fix recent false failure due to a race tests: avoid potential overflows with `expr` sleep,timeout: support overflowing floating point values yes: avoid redundant diagnostics on write error stat,tail: add support for Windows Subsystem for Linux tests: avoid false failure when df lists no root file system stat,tail: add support for the SMB2 remote file system dircolors: output colors for any $TERM matching *color* doc: clarify sort --key handling of default field separators yes: fix copy and paste issue with previous commit yes: handle short writes all: update gnulib submodule and tests/init.sh to latest stty: fix sane setting of susp to ^z on Solaris tests: avoid false failure on 32 bit in readdir() test doc: make date(1) synopsis consistent with output +FORMAT doc: revert recent date(1) synopsis change doc: fix ambiguous multiplier info in dd man page cp: with --parents --no-preserve=mode don't copy dir perms doc: fix typo in date example factor: reinstate immediate output with interactive use tail: -F now always processes initially untailable files rm: disallow --n alias for --no-preserve-root all: use die() rather than error(EXIT_FAILURE) md5sum,sha*sum: fix --ignore-missing with checksums starting with 00 dd: warn about counts specified with confusing 0x prefix doc: improve the --help description of ls -N stat: make --format=%N honor the QUOTING_STYLE env var doc: clarify in texinfo that cut doesn't reorder fields all: update gnulib submodule to latest date: add %q to output the quarter of the year maint: refactor printing of backup suffix --help maint: misc tweaks to recent changes tail: terminate when following pipes and untailable non pipes tail: avoid outputting repeated data with remote files tail: ensure -f --retry 'missing' handles truncation tail: only retry file open if --retry specifed all: reduce usage of proper_name_utf8() tests: fix false failure on OS X tests: fix non portable date in recent test cp: improve status message when omitting directories b2sum: a new checksum utility with md5sum like interface ls: improve alignment of quoted names tests: fix recent tail-2 test regressions tests: fix false fails due to passing env vars to returns_ tests: fix false failure with FreeBSD 11 multibyte quoting all: update gnulib submodule to latest tail: fix checking of remoteness when not using inotify split: fix memory corruption during chunk extraction tests: fix false failure with ASAN in rm-readdir-fail ptx: fix an invalid heap reference with short --width Rishabh Dave (1): maint: simplify handling of backup --suffix in various tools Vincent Lefevre (1): doc: fix the --iso-8601 example in date --help Yigal Korman (1): stat,tail: add support for M1FS thanks! 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