I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.4.1 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/findutils-4.4.1.tar.gz. 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. If you would like instead to follow the latest changes to findutils, you can try out the development release series, 4.5.x, which is available at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/. This version of findutils is distributed under version 3 (or later) of the GNU GPL. The documentation is distributed under version 1.2 (or later) of the GNU Free Documentation License. All the changes since the previous stable release (4.4.0) 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. Please note that the key being used is not the same as the key that was used to sign previous releases. * Major changes in release 4.4.1, 2009-04-21 ** Bug Fixes On some systems without support for a boolean type (for example some versions of the AIX C compiler), find's regular expression implementation fails to support case-insensitive regular expression matching, causing -iregex to behave like -regex. This is now fixed. #25764: remove duplicate entry for 'proc' in updatedb's $PRUNEFS. #25154: Allow compilation with C compilers that don't allow declarations to follow statements. #25144: Misleading error message when argument to find -user is an unknown user or is missing. #24283: -printf %TY causes NULL pointer dereference on Solaris. #24169: find would segfault if the -newerXY test was not followed by any argument. #23996: integer overflow on some platforms when parsing "-used 3". #23663: crash in some locales for -printf %AX (this problem seems to have affected only the CVS code for 4.5.x, and not any public releases, but it was a problem with the original fix for bug #22662) #22662: find -printf %AX appends nanoseconds in the right place now. ** Functional Enhancements to find If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, the system's definition of "yes" and "no" responses are used to interpret the response to questions from -ok and -okdir. The default is still to use information from the findutils message translations. ** Documentation Enhancements Both the Texinfo manual and the find manual page now include a more precise description of how your locale configuration affects the interpretation of regular expressions and how your response to prompts from the -ok action are interpreted. Added a worked example describing how to find the shallowest instances of a given directory name (or names) in a directory hierarchy. The file README-CVS has been renamed to README-hacking and improved. ** Translations Updated translations: Catalan, French, German, Indonesian, Irish, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified), Lithuanian. -- James Youngman <[email protected]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
