timeout: support sub-second timeouts

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@@ -14,12 +14,26 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   split --number l/... no longer creates extraneous files in certain cases.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8]
 
+  timeout now sends signals to commands that create their own process group.
+  timeout is no longer confused when starting off with a child process.
+  [bugs introduced in coreutils-7.0]
+
+  unexpand -a now aligns correctly when there are spaces spanning a tabstop,
+  followed by a tab.  In that case a space was dropped, causing misalignment.
+  We also now ensure that a space never precedes a tab.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
+
 ** Changes in behavior
 
-  chmod -v and -c now output the original mode in the messages.
+  chmod, chown and chgrp now output the original attributes in messages,
+  when -v or -c specified.
 
 ** New features
 
+  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.
+
   split accepts a new --filter=CMD option.  With it, split filters output
   through CMD.  CMD may use the $FILE environment variable, which is set to
   the nominal output file name for each invocation of CMD.  For example, to
@@ -28,11 +42,30 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Note the use of single quotes, not double quotes.
   That creates files named xaa.xz, xab.xz and xac.xz.
 
+  timeout accepts a new --foreground option, to support commands not started
+  directly from a shell prompt, where the command is interactive or needs to
+  receive signals initiated from the terminal.
+
 ** Improvements
 
+  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.
+
   shuf outputs small subsets of large permutations much more efficiently.
   For example `shuf -i1-$((2**32-1)) -n2` no longer exhausts memory.
 
+  stat -f now recognizes the GPFS, MQUEUE and PSTOREFS file system types.
+
+  timeout now supports sub-second timeouts.
+
+** Build-related
+
+  Changes inherited from gnulib address a build failure on HP-UX 11.11
+  when using /opt/ansic/bin/cc.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.12 (2011-04-26) [stable]
 
@@ -1073,7 +1106,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   join has significantly better performance due to better memory management
 
   ls now uses constant memory when not sorting and using one_per_line format,
-  no matter how many files are in a given directory
+  no matter how many files are in a given directory.  I.e., to list a directory
+  with very many files, ls -1U is much more efficient.
 
   od now aligns fields across lines when printing multiple -t
   specifiers, and no longer prints fields that resulted entirely from