This is to announce coreutils-8.9, a stable, bug-fix release. The sole bug was in split, introduced in 8.8.
See NEWS below for a summary. Here's the GNU Coreutils home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers] Here are the compressed sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.9.tar.xz (4.6 MB) http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.9.tar.gz (11 MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.9.tar.xz.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.9.tar.gz.sig If you prefer a mirror, you can use links like these: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.9.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.9.tar.gz [*] 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-8.9.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 keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 000BEEEE and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68.11-45b92 Automake 1.11a Gnulib v0.0-4673-gfa6be5b Bison 2.4.3 ========================================================= NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 8.9 (2011-01-04) [stable] ** Bug fixes split no longer creates files with a suffix length that is dependent on the number of bytes or lines per file. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8] ---- Also announced at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6679
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