This is to announce coreutils-7.5, a "stable" release. We're calling it "stable" in spite of the fact that there is a new program, stdbuf, and there are some interesting new features. Thanks to everyone who has been helping!
For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v7.5 or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory: git shortlog v7.4..v7.5 To summarize the gnulib-related changes, run these commands From a git-cloned coreutils directory: git checkout v7.5 git submodule summary v7.4 Distribution note: new suffix, ".xz" replaces ".lzma". Note the better-compressed tar ball name below has the ".xz" suffix. XZ Utils (new name for the improved format/tools) is the successor to lzma. For more info, see http://tukaani.org/xz/ If your distro doesn't yet distribute an "xz" program, request it. The latest version of GNU tar (1.22) supports it, so you can already unpack .tar.xz files with a simple "tar xf foo.tar.xz". Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-7.5.tar.gz (9.5MB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-7.5.tar.xz (4.3MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-7.5.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-7.5.tar.xz.sig [*] 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-7.5.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 B9AB9A16 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.64.16-4cdf58 Automake 1.11a Gnulib v0.0-2423-g3ef6401 Bison 2.4.1 NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 7.5 (2009-08-20) [stable] ** Bug fixes dd's oflag=direct option now works even when the size of the input is not a multiple of e.g., 512 bytes. dd now handles signals consistently even when they're received before data copying has started. install runs faster again with SELinux enabled [introduced in coreutils-7.0] ls -1U (with two or more arguments, at least one a nonempty directory) would print entry names *before* the name of the containing directory. Also fixed incorrect output of ls -1RU and ls -1sU. [introduced in coreutils-7.0] sort now correctly ignores fields whose ending position is specified before the start position. Previously in numeric mode the remaining part of the line after the start position was used as the sort key. [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning".] truncate -s failed to skip all whitespace in the option argument in some locales. ** New programs stdbuf: A new program to run a command with modified stdio buffering for its standard streams. ** Changes in behavior ls --color: files with multiple hard links are no longer colored differently by default. That can be enabled by changing the LS_COLORS environment variable. You can control that using the MULTIHARDLINK dircolors input variable which corresponds to the 'mh' LS_COLORS item. Note these variables were renamed from 'HARDLINK' and 'hl' which were available since coreutils-7.1 when this feature was introduced. ** Deprecated options nl --page-increment: deprecated in favor of --line-increment, the new option maintains the previous semantics and the same short option, -i. ** New features chroot now accepts the options --userspec and --groups. cp accepts a new option, --reflink: create a lightweight copy using copy-on-write (COW). This is currently only supported within a btrfs file system. cp now preserves time stamps on symbolic links, when possible sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc. tail --follow now uses inotify when possible, to be more responsive to file changes and more efficient when monitoring many files.
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