* NEWS: Describe the changes in behavior. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4dad878b0..ee4d04fee 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- 'ls' -w,--width no longer includes '\n' in the width of a line. I.e., the width or $COLUMNS is interpreted to be an _inclusive_ maximum. + 'stat' now uses shell quoting when required, to more robustly escape + file names. Previously it only quoted file names with the %N format. + Like %N, this default quoting honors the QUOTING_STYLE env variable. + Also %Qn is a newly supported format combination to quote file names, + leaving the existing %n format for when quoting is not desired. + ** Improvements 'sort' will now better use available memory and parallel operation -- 2.54.0
