I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.4.2 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-4.4.2.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 (4.4.1) are summarised below. The release date of 4.4.2 is listed as 2009-05-16 but while this was the day the changes were finalised, the release was actually made available on 2009-06-06. 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 <bug-findutils-requ...@gnu.org>. 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 4.4.2, 2009-05-16 ** Bug Fixes #26537: find -prune now makes sure it has valid stat() information. ** Translations Updated the Slovenian translation. -- James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu