sort: spawn fewer threads for small inputs

[platform/upstream/coreutils.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3157ef2..5770410 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,13 +4,16 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
-  du would infloop when given --files0-from=DIR
-  [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
-
   cut could segfault when invoked with a user-specified output
   delimiter and an unbounded range like "-f1234567890-".
   [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
 
+  du would infloop when given --files0-from=DIR
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
+
+  sort no longer spawns 7 worker threads to sort 16 lines
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
+
   wc would dereference a NULL pointer upon an early out-of-memory error
   [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]