** Bug fixes
+ du -x no longer counts root directories of other file systems.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
+
+ ls --color many-entry-directory was uninterruptible for too long
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.2.1]
+
+ ls's -k option no longer affects how ls -l outputs file sizes.
+ It now affects only the per-directory block counts written by -l,
+ and the sizes written by -s. This is for compatibility with BSD
+ and with POSIX 2008. Because -k is no longer equivalent to
+ --block-size=1KiB, a new long option --kibibyte stands for -k.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-4.5.4]
+
+ ls -l would leak a little memory (security context string) for each
+ nonempty directory listed on the command line, when using SELinux.
+ [bug probably introduced in coreutils-6.10 with SELinux support]
+
+ rm -rf DIR would fail with "Device or resource busy" on Cygwin with NWFS
+ and NcFsd file systems. This did not affect Unix/Linux-based kernels.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0, when rm began using fts]
+
+ stat -f now recognizes the FhGFS and PipeFS file system types.
+
+ tac no longer fails to handle two or more non-seekable inputs
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
+
+ tail -f no longer tries to use inotify on GPFS or FhGFS file systems
+ [you might say this was introduced in coreutils-7.5, along with inotify
+ support, but the new magic numbers weren't in the usual places then.]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ tail -f now uses polling (not inotify) when any of its file arguments
+ resides on a file system of unknown type. In addition, for each such
+ argument, tail -f prints a warning with the FS type magic number and a
+ request to report it to the bug-reporting address.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.14 (2011-10-12) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ ls --dereference no longer outputs erroneous "argetm" strings for
+ dangling symlinks when an 'ln=target' entry is in $LS_COLORS.
+ [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0]
+
+ ls -lL symlink once again properly prints "+" when the referent has an ACL.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.13]
+
+ sort -g no longer infloops for certain inputs containing NaNs
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.5]
+
+** Improvements
+
+ md5sum --check now supports the -r format from the corresponding BSD tool.
+ This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
+
+ pwd now works also on systems without openat. On such systems, pwd
+ would fail when run from a directory whose absolute name contained
+ more than PATH_MAX / 3 components. The df, stat and readlink programs
+ are also affected due to their use of the canonicalize_* functions.
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ timeout now only processes the first signal received from the set
+ it is handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT, ...). This is to support systems that
+ implicitly create threads for some timer functions (like GNU/kFreeBSD).
+
+** Build-related
+
+ "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files.
+ xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
+ only .tar.xz files is enough.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
chown and chgrp with the -v --from= options, now output the correct owner.
I.E. for skipped files, the original ownership is output, not the new one.
[bug introduced in sh-utils-2.0g]
+ cp -r could mistakenly change the permissions of an existing destination
+ directory. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.8]
+
+ cp -u -p would fail to preserve one hard link for each up-to-date copy
+ of a src-hard-linked name in the destination tree. I.e., if s/a and s/b
+ are hard-linked and dst/s/a is up to date, "cp -up s dst" would copy s/b
+ to dst/s/b rather than simply linking dst/s/b to dst/s/a.
+ [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning".]
+
+ fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory
+ proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process.
+ Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of memory.
+ Now, it uses less than 30MB, no matter how many entries there are.
+ [this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was
+ introduced in coreutils-8.0. The prior implementation of rm did not use
+ as much memory. du, chmod, chgrp and chown started using fts in 6.0.
+ chcon was added in coreutils-6.9.91 with fts support. ]
+
+ pr -T no longer ignores a specified LAST_PAGE to stop at.
+ [bug introduced in textutils-1.19q]
+
printf '%d' '"' no longer accesses out-of-bounds memory in the diagnostic.
[bug introduced in sh-utils-1.16]
chmod, chown and chgrp now output the original attributes in messages,
when -v or -c specified.
+ cp -au (where --preserve=links is implicit) may now replace newer
+ files in the destination, to mirror hard links from the source.
+
** New features
+ date now accepts ISO 8601 date-time strings with "T" as the
+ separator. It has long parsed dates like "2004-02-29 16:21:42"
+ with a space between the date and time strings. Now it also parses
+ "2004-02-29T16:21:42" and fractional-second and time-zone-annotated
+ variants like "2004-02-29T16:21:42.333-07:00"
+
md5sum accepts the new --strict option. With --check, it makes the
tool exit non-zero for any invalid input line, rather than just warning.
This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
** Improvements
+ cp -p now copies trivial NSFv4 ACLs on Solaris 10. Before, it would
+ mistakenly apply a non-trivial ACL to the destination file.
+
cp and ls now support HP-UX 11.11's ACLs, thanks to improved support
in gnulib.
df now supports disk partitions larger than 4 TiB on MacOS X 10.5
or newer and on AIX 5.2 or newer.
+ join --check-order now prints "join: FILE:LINE_NUMBER: bad_line" for an
+ unsorted input, rather than e.g., "join: file 1 is not in sorted order".
+
shuf outputs small subsets of large permutations much more efficiently.
For example `shuf -i1-$((2**32-1)) -n2` no longer exhausts memory.
Changes inherited from gnulib address a build failure on HP-UX 11.11
when using /opt/ansic/bin/cc.
+ Numerous portability and build improvements inherited via gnulib.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.12 (2011-04-26) [stable]
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (2008-05-31) [stable]
+** New features
+
+ cp, install, mv, and touch now preserve nanosecond resolution on
+ file timestamps, on platforms that have the 'utimensat' and
+ 'futimens' system calls.
+
** Bug fixes
chcon, runcon: --help output now includes the bug-reporting address
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