We plan to release coreutils-8.28 towards the end of this 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 (5.2 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) = f38d980b63f88b66bf2415c3edf6313b -------------------------------------- To test follow this standard procedure: tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz cd coreutils-8.27.99-3ebdc3/ ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log -------------------------------------- Changes in coreutils since v8.27 are summarized at https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS and all commits grouped by author are as follows: Andreas Schwab (1): nproc: fix indentation of usage output Assaf Gordon (5): expr: add multibyte support doc: fix join example realpath: improve usage description for --relative-{to,base} doc: fix realpath index entry doc: add 'realpath usage examples' section Bo Rydberg (1): doc: fix awk example for getting penultimate field Bogdan Drozdowski (1): shred: fix invalid pattern generation for certain sizes Chris Davies (1): doc: clarify in dd man page that bs= overrides [io]bs= Colin Watson (1): env: add --chdir option Jaak Ristioja (1): doc: Fixed typo in timeout man page Jacob Keller (1): expand,unexpand: add support for incremental tab stops Jim Meyering (10): maint: update to work with GCC7's -Werror=implicit-fallthrough=5 maint: avoid spurious "make distcheck" failure doc: tweak wording tests: groups-dash.sh: avoid false failure groups: do not exit early maint: fix grammar in a shred.c comment doc: correct technicality in chroot's --help output chroot: fix typo in preceding change: didn't compile gnulib: update to latest and adjust gl/modules/tempname.diff build: adjust warning options to work with latest GCC Josef Cejka (1): df: avoid stat() for dummy file systems with -l Ludovic Courtès (1): tests: avoid false ulimit failure on some systems Michael Heimpold (1): split: add new --hex-suffixes option Paul Eggert (25): tests: port to tzdb-2017a sort: update comment tty: handle misconfigured namespaces build: update gnulib submodule to latest date: adjust to gnulib parse-datetime changes maint: remove unused functions and constants build: update gnulib submodule to latest dd: status=progress outputs "6 s", not "6.00001 s" dd: simplify translator’s jobs build: update gnulib submodule to latest shred: use explicit_bzero build: update gnulib submodule to latest shred: avoid rename race copy: make backup files more reliably copy: sanity-check --suffix copy: go back to failing 'cp --backup a~ a' build: update gnulib submodule to latest copy: more-accurate warning about destruction build: update gnulib submodule to latest build: update gnulib submodule to latest sort: file descriptor discipline sort: minor cleanups sort: use pthread_sigmask, not sigprocmask nohup: simplify by using fcntl ptx: fix some integer overflow bugs Philipp Thomas (1): df: avoid querying excluded file systems Prateek saxena (1): uptime: remove inconsistent AM/PM from current time Pádraig Brady (45): maint: post-release administrivia doc: rearrange a recent bug entry to an improvement in NEWS build: for factor use C in more cases for arm64 and ppc64 build: fix missing renameat() on OS X 10.5.8 tests: avoid a false failure on OS X 10.5.8 split: ensure input is processed when filters exit early split: process more efficiently when filters exit early maint: avoid a static analysis warning in expand-common md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: don't erroneously trigger BSD reversed mode maint: avoid syntax check failure with wrapped returns_ doc: refactor and update expand and unexpand --help maint: fix syntax-check issues in previous tty commit build: update gnulib submodule to latest date,touch: test and document large TZ security issue doc: update the instructions for generating a coverage report maint: fix various typos in recent commits mv: distinguish copy and rename operations with --verbose copy: don't fail when unable to chown symlinks tests: fix issues with recently added tail test tail: with --pid, ensure all inotify events are processed tail: exit promptly when output no longer writable tail: with -f don't warn if doing a blocking read of a tty tail: only use inotify with regular files maint: use C99 for loop initial declarations where possible tests: avoid a false failure on AIX maint: resync with blake2 upstream shred: remove redundant zeroing of freed memory maint: fix recent syntax-check failures maint: avoid a syntax-check failure tests: fix false failure with large printf formats seq: produce consistent error messages upon write error sort: handle musl locale differences in --debug reporting tests: avoid false failures on AIX build: use the appropriate single file include option with xlc kill: fix signal number to name lookup on AIX tests: fix issues on alpine linux maint: avoid a syntax check failure tail: reinstate inotify use with FIFOs ls: consistently quote symlink targets tests: don't fail tests when failing to write files doc: remove older ChangeLog items ls: support --hyperlink to output file:// URIs runcon: disable use of the TIOCSTI ioctl all: update gnulib submodule to latest stat,tail: support "AAFS" AppArmor file system Sebastian Kisela (2): tail: revert to polling if a followed directory is replaced doc: mention `setpriv --no-new-privs` feature in runcon info thanks! Pádraig
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