-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Coreutils version 6.9 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix-only release.
If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/>. The previous stable release was 6.7, on Dec 8, 2006. Then there was a nearly-stable 6.8 release on Feb 24, 2007. Since 6.8 was a test release, I've included its NEWS entries below, along with the few for 6.9. Thanks to all of the people who have contributed patches, suggestions, and bug reports. Their names are listed in the ChangeLog files. A lot of coreutils' portability infrastructure comes from gnulib, <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib>, so ChangeLog entries for the vast majority of files in lib/ and m4/ are no longer included here. P.S., I'm considering no longer distributing .xdelta difference files. If you use those files, please send a message to the bug-coreutils mailing list. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz (7.9MB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 (5.2MB) Here are the xdelta-style diffs: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7-6.9.xdelta (916KB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 62032af4d79cd99743e06d5c40c4989c coreutils-6.9.tar.gz c9607d8495f16e98906e7ed2d9751a06 coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 e220fb14f517790bc08d692eeb81a6e9 coreutils-6.7-6.9.xdelta 41c36653f6e9a4a1c086c78ac293ede8cf86beb1 coreutils-6.9.tar.gz 10310a78c4e1d9f742f3815ac28e9bf1086a5885 coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 a8e7b62a0f62fdccf451af854bbda0009d285204 coreutils-6.7-6.9.xdelta [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify coreutils-6.9.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys D333CBA1 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.61a Automake 1.10 Bison 2.3a CVS Gnulib sources from 2007-03-22 08:05:40 +0000 ***************** How can you help? ***************** If you're interested in lending a hand, or just want to use the latest versions right now, you can build these programs and run the test suite like this: gzip -dc coreutils-6.9.tar.gz | tar xf - cd coreutils-6.9 ./configure make make -k check >& log grep FAIL log Be sure to use make's -k option so that make doesn't stop just because one of the earlier tests fails. Please report any build problems or test failures to the bug-coreutils@gnu.org mailing list. There are detailed instructions in the `Reporting bugs:' section of the README file. For further reading, see the coreutils home page http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ and the FAQ list: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ ***************** NEWS ***************** * Noteworthy changes in release 6.9 (2007-03-22) [stable] ** Bug fixes cp -x (--one-file-system) would fail to set mount point permissions The default block size and output format for df -P are now unaffected by the DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, and BLOCKSIZE environment variables. It is still affected by POSIXLY_CORRECT, though. Using pr -m -s (i.e. merging files, with TAB as the output separator) no longer inserts extraneous spaces between output columns. * Noteworthy changes in release 6.8 (2007-02-24) [not-unstable] ** Bug fixes chgrp, chmod, and chown now honor the --preserve-root option. Before, they would warn, yet continuing traversing and operating on /. chmod no longer fails in an environment (e.g., a chroot) with openat support but with insufficient /proc support. "cp --parents F/G D" no longer creates a directory D/F when F is not a directory (and F/G is therefore invalid). "cp --preserve=mode" would create directories that briefly had too-generous permissions in some cases. For example, when copying a directory with permissions 777 the destination directory might temporarily be setgid on some file systems, which would allow other users to create subfiles with the same group as the directory. Fix similar problems with 'install' and 'mv'. cut no longer dumps core for usage like "cut -f2- f1 f2" with two or more file arguments. This was due to a double-free bug, introduced in coreutils-5.3.0. dd bs= operands now silently override any later ibs= and obs= operands, as POSIX and tradition require. "ls -FRL" always follows symbolic links on Linux. Introduced in coreutils-6.0. A cross-partition "mv /etc/passwd ~" (by non-root) now prints a reasonable diagnostic. Before, it would print this: "mv: cannot remove `/etc/passwd': Not a directory". pwd and "readlink -e ." no longer fail unnecessarily when a parent directory is unreadable. "rm -rf /etc/passwd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic. Before it would print nothing. "rm --interactive=never F" no longer prompts for an unwritable F ** New features sort's new --compress-program=PROG option specifies a compression program to use when writing and reading temporary files. This can help save both time and disk space when sorting large inputs. sort accepts the new option -C, which acts like -c except no diagnostic is printed. Its --check option now accepts an optional argument, and --check=quiet and --check=silent are now aliases for -C, while --check=diagnose-first is an alias for -c or plain --check. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGAwik/dLerNMzy6ERApiPAJ9KmCy1YwTM37Np54WD1ZkGOpF/GQCg1JeQ SAIgyh/1LD4pSnQMO7q7ePs= =Bvqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu