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-* Noteworthy changes in release 6.?? (2008-??-??) [stable]
+* Noteworthy changes in release 7.0 (????-??-??) [beta]
+
+** New programs
+
+ timeout: Run a command with bounded time.
+ truncate: Set the size of a file to a specified size.
+
+** New features
+
+ comm now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order. This check can
+ be turned off with the --nocheck-order option.
+
+ comm accepts new option, --output-delimiter=STR, that allows specification
+ of an output delimiter other than the default single TAB.
+
+ md5sum now accepts the new option, --quiet, to suppress the printing of
+ 'OK' messages. sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum accept it, too.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ od no longer suffers from platform bugs in printf(3). This is
+ probably most noticeable when using 'od -tfL' to print long doubles.
+
+** Improvements
+
+ Improved support for access control lists (ACLs): On MacOS X, Solaris 7..10,
+ HP-UX 11, Tru64, AIX, IRIX 6.5, and Cygwin, "ls -l" now displays the presence
+ of an ACL on a file via a '+' sign after the mode, and "cp -p" copies ACLs.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (2008-05-31) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ chcon, runcon: --help output now includes the bug-reporting address
+
+ cp -p copies permissions more portably. For example, on MacOS X 10.5,
+ "cp -p some-fifo some-file" no longer fails while trying to copy the
+ permissions from the some-fifo argument.
+
+ id with no options now prints the SELinux context only when invoked
+ with no USERNAME argument.
+
+ id and groups once again print the AFS-specific nameless group-ID (PAG).
+ Printing of such large-numbered, kernel-only (not in /etc/group) group-IDs
+ was suppressed in 6.11 due to ignorance that they are useful.
+
+ uniq: avoid subtle field-skipping malfunction due to isblank misuse.
+ In some locales on some systems, isblank(240) (aka  ) is nonzero.
+ On such systems, uniq --skip-fields=N would fail to skip the proper
+ number of fields for some inputs.
+
+ tac: avoid segfault with --regex (-r) and multiple files, e.g.,
+ "echo > x; tac -r x x". [bug present at least in textutils-1.8b, from 1992]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ install once again sets SELinux context, when possible
+ [it was deliberately disabled in 6.9.90]
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 6.11 (2008-04-19) [stable]
** Bug fixes
configure --enable-no-install-program=groups now works.
+ "cp -fR fifo E" now succeeds with an existing E. Before this fix, using
+ -fR to copy a fifo or "special" file onto an existing file would fail
+ with EEXIST. Now, it once again unlinks the destination before trying
+ to create the destination file. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.90]
+
+ dd once again works with unnecessary options like if=/dev/stdin and
+ of=/dev/stdout. [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0h]
+
id now uses getgrouplist, when possible. This results in
much better performance when there are many users and/or groups.
ls no longer segfaults on files in /proc when linked with an older version
of libselinux. E.g., ls -l /proc/sys would dereference a NULL pointer.
+ md5sum would segfault for invalid BSD-style input, e.g.,
+ echo 'MD5 (' | md5sum -c - Now, md5sum ignores that line.
+ sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum are affected, too.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
+
+ md5sum -c would accept a NUL-containing checksum string like "abcd\0..."
+ and would unnecessarily read and compute the checksum of the named file,
+ and then compare that checksum to the invalid one: guaranteed to fail.
+ Now, it recognizes that the line is not valid and skips it.
+ sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum are affected, too.
+ [bug present in the original version, in coreutils-4.5.1, 1995]
+
+ "mkdir -Z x dir" no longer segfaults when diagnosing invalid context "x"
+ mkfifo and mknod would fail similarly. Now they're fixed.
+
+ mv would mistakenly unlink a destination file before calling rename,
+ when the destination had two or more hard links. It no longer does that.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
+
+ "paste -d'\' file" no longer overruns memory (heap since coreutils-5.1.2,
+ stack before then) [bug present in the original version, in 1992]
+
+ "pr -e" with a mix of backspaces and TABs no longer corrupts the heap
+ [bug present in the original version, in 1992]
+
+ "ptx -F'\' long-file-name" would overrun a malloc'd buffer and corrupt
+ the heap. That was triggered by a lone backslash (or odd number of them)
+ at the end of the option argument to --flag-truncation=STRING (-F),
+ --word-regexp=REGEXP (-W), or --sentence-regexp=REGEXP (-S).
+
+ "rm -r DIR" would mistakenly declare to be "write protected" -- and
+ prompt about -- full DIR-relative names longer than MIN (PATH_MAX, 8192).
+
"rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" detects and ignores the failure
in more cases when a directory is empty.
seq gives better diagnostics for invalid formats.
+** Portability
+
+ rm now works properly even on systems like BeOS and Haiku,
+ which have negative errno values.
+
** Consistency
install, mkdir, rmdir and split now write --verbose output to stdout,
loss of the contents of a/f.
stty no longer silently accepts certain invalid hex values
- in its 35-colon commmand-line argument
+ in its 35-colon command-line argument
** Bug fixes
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