We plan to release coreutils-8.29 in the next few days, 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) = fecfcefd7c393bd3ee1691c183ff5c84 -------------------------------------- To test follow this standard procedure: tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz cd coreutils-8.28.61-70c84/ ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log -------------------------------------- Changes in coreutils since v8.28 are summarized at https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS and all commits grouped by author are as follows: Assaf Gordon (3): expr: add detailed syntax error messages stat: output default formats for --terse in usage doc: add github issue/pull-request templates Bernhard Voelker (9): ptx: avoid infloop due to zero-length matches with -S regex doc: fix "Up" field of realpath usage examples maint: update gnulib to latest maint: include the module year2038 from gnulib timeout: also support short -v option all: use consistent diagnostics for unknown long options tests: verify usage vs. getopt maint: adjust for the renamed nstrfime gnulib module doc: mention which privileges are needed to chmod Jean Delvare (1): tests: make ls/block-size more readable Jim Meyering (3): build: ls.c: apply _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE to more functions maint: shorten https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/... links maint: make hook script reject "/archive/html" in lists.gnu.org URLS Kamil Dudka (1): doc: fix default QUOTING_STYLE for %N format of stat(1) Michael Stone (1): doc: mention QUOTING_STYLE env var in ls man page Paul Eggert (4): copy: check for vulnerable target dirs all: prefer HTTPS in URLs maint: copy bootstrap from Gnulib copy: revert recent patch for vulnerable dirs Pádraig Brady (36): maint: post-release administrivia shred: reinstate --remove file name length obfuscation maint: fix new syntax check failures from copy restrictions maint: fix new syntax-check failures from HTTPS adjustments tests: avoid a false failure in expr test with UTF8 tests: fix test hang on case insenitive file systems maint: remove a duplicate entry from THANKS build: reinstate distribution of man pages timeout: fix a small race that would ignore command exit stty: fix processing of options when -F is specified b2sum: fix crash with --check and truncated input maint: apply suggested cleanup to recent stty.c change dd: fix nocache regions passed to posix_fadvise() tests: avoid false failure when O_DIRECT isn't supported df: fix hang with fifo argument maint: ensure https:// URLs are used in --help and man pages tail: seek to the end of block devices timeout: add --verbose to diagnose timeouts dd: support iflag=direct with arbitrary sized files build: update gnulib submodule to latest build: update gnulib submodule to latest test: fix issues with tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh readlink: remove superfluous comma from usage output doc: clarify that cp --force may recreate files doc: shred: change 'truncate' to the more descriptive 'deallocate' doc: clarify numeric setuid handling in chmod man page doc: reorganize ls -k and --time-style help build: avoid build failure without sys/mtio.h tail: fix tailing non seekable files on certain systems tests: fix false failure in new dd/nocache_eof test build: update gnulib submodule to latest build: avoid a signed overflow warning in ptx tests: fix recent regressions with dash doc: remove older ChangeLog items maint: add doc/coverage to .gitignore maint: remove reference to excluded changelog item Thomas Deutschmann (1): tests: avoid false failure with inaccessible mount points Thomas Jarosch (1): timeout: fix regression when invoked with blocked SIGCHLD Vincent Lefevre (1): doc: reference statfs(2) in the stat(1) man page thanks! Pádraig
