I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.29 of GNU findutils.
GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. This is a "stable" release of findutils. It can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils. The ftp.gnu.org site is very busy, so you may find it more convenient to download findutils from one of the mirror sites listed at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. This release includes a range of changes, including bugfixes, documentation improvements and small functional changes. All the changes since the previous stable release are summarised below. Bugs in GNU findutils should be reported to the findutils bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils. Reporting bugs via the web interface will ensure that you are automatically informed when the bug has been fixed. General discussion of findutils takes place on the bug-findutils mailing list. To join the 'bug-findutils' mailing list, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public key of the findutils maintainer, James Youngman. You can download this from http://savannah.gnu.org/users/jay. Alternatively, you could query a PGP keyserver, but you will need to use one that can cope with subkeys containing photos. Many older key servers cannot do this. I use subkeys.pgp.net. I think that one works. See also the "Downloading" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. I would like to thank Chris Evans, Tavis Ormandy, Rob Holland, Sylvain Bertrand, WANG Yunfeng, Eric Blake, Jim Meyering and Andreas Metzler as well as the members of the bug-findutils mailing list for their help in preparing this release. * Major changes in release 4.2.29 ** Documentation Fixes The global effect of options (other than -daystart and -follow) is now explained more clearly in the manual page. Savannah bug #15360. ** Bug Fixes #17782: find -execdir now correctly puts the prefix "./" before the expansion of "{}" rather than at the start of the argument it appears in. Please note that if you use the -exec or -execdir actions with a shell, then you may be vulnerable to shell code injection attacks, so don't do that. It's not a security defect in find - you should not be passing untrusted data (such as file names chosen by other people) to the shell. #17477: find -printf '%' (that is, where the format has a trailing %) now generates an error message. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu