** 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]
+
+ printf '%d' '"' no longer accesses out-of-bounds memory in the diagnostic.
+ [bug introduced in sh-utils-1.16]
+
+ 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, 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
+ split a file into 3 approximately equal parts, which are then compressed:
+ split -n3 --filter='xz > $FILE.xz' big
+ Note the use of single quotes, not double quotes.
+ That creates files named xaa.xz, xab.xz and xac.xz.
+
+ timeout accepts a new --foreground option, to support commands not started
+ directly from a shell prompt, where the command is interactive or needs to
+ receive signals initiated from the terminal.
+
+** Improvements
+
+ cp and ls now support HP-UX 11.11's ACLs, thanks to improved support
+ in gnulib.
+
+ df now supports disk partitions larger than 4 TiB on MacOS X 10.5
+ or newer and on AIX 5.2 or newer.
+
+ shuf outputs small subsets of large permutations much more efficiently.
+ For example `shuf -i1-$((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]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ tail's --follow=name option no longer implies --retry on systems
+ with inotify support. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ cp's extent-based (FIEMAP) copying code is more reliable in the face
+ of varying and undocumented file system semantics:
+ - it no longer treats unwritten extents specially
+ - a FIEMAP-based extent copy always uses the FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC flag.
+ Before, it would incur the performance penalty of that sync only
+ for 2.6.38 and older kernels. We thought all problems would be
+ resolved for 2.6.39.
+ - it now attempts a FIEMAP copy only on a file that appears sparse.
+ Sparse files are relatively unusual, and the copying code incurs
+ the performance penalty of the now-mandatory sync only for them.
+
+** Portability
+
+ dd once again compiles on AIX 5.1 and 5.2
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.11 (2011-04-13) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ cp -a --link would not create a hardlink to a symlink, instead
+ copying the symlink and then not preserving its timestamp.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0]
+
+ cp now avoids FIEMAP issues with BTRFS before Linux 2.6.38,
+ which could result in corrupt copies of sparse files.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.10]
+
+ 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]
+
+ touch built on Solaris 9 would segfault when run on Solaris 10
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8]
+
+ wc would dereference a NULL pointer upon an early out-of-memory error
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
+
+** New features
+
+ dd now accepts the 'nocache' flag to the iflag and oflag options,
+ which will discard any cache associated with the files, or
+ processed portion thereof.
+
+ dd now warns that 'iflag=fullblock' should be used,
+ in various cases where partial reads can cause issues.
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ cp now avoids syncing files when possible, when doing a FIEMAP copy.
+ The sync is only needed on Linux kernels before 2.6.39.
+ [The sync was introduced in coreutils-8.10]
+
+ cp now copies empty extents efficiently, when doing a FIEMAP copy.
+ It no longer reads the zero bytes from the input, and also can efficiently
+ create a hole in the output file when --sparse=always is specified.
+
+ df now aligns columns consistently, and no longer wraps entries
+ with longer device identifiers, over two lines.
+
+ install now rejects its long-deprecated --preserve_context option.
+ Use --preserve-context instead.
+
+ test now accepts "==" as a synonym for "="
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.10 (2011-02-04) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ du would abort with a failed assertion when two conditions are met:
+ part of the hierarchy being traversed is moved to a higher level in the
+ directory tree, and there is at least one more command line directory
+ argument following the one containing the moved sub-tree.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
+
+ join --header now skips the ordering check for the first line
+ even if the other file is empty. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.5]
+
+ rm -f no longer fails for EINVAL or EILSEQ on file systems that
+ reject file names invalid for that file system.
+
+ uniq -f NUM no longer tries to process fields after end of line.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
+
+** New features
+
+ cp now copies sparse files efficiently on file systems with FIEMAP
+ support (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ocfs2). Before, it had to read 2^20 bytes
+ when copying a 1MiB sparse file. Now, it copies bytes only for the
+ non-sparse sections of a file. Similarly, to induce a hole in the
+ output file, it had to detect a long sequence of zero bytes. Now,
+ it knows precisely where each hole in an input file is, and can
+ reproduce them efficiently in the output file. mv also benefits
+ when it resorts to copying, e.g., between file systems.
+
+ join now supports -o 'auto' which will automatically infer the
+ output format from the first line in each file, to ensure
+ the same number of fields are output for each line.
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ join no longer reports disorder when one of the files is empty.
+ This allows one to use join as a field extractor like:
+ join -a1 -o 1.3,1.1 - /dev/null
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.9 (2011-01-04) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ split no longer creates files with a suffix length that
+ is dependent on the number of bytes or lines per file.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8]
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.8 (2010-12-22) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ cp -u no longer does unnecessary copying merely because the source
+ has finer-grained time stamps than the destination.
+
+ od now prints floating-point numbers without losing information, and
+ it no longer omits spaces between floating-point columns in some cases.
+
+ sort -u with at least two threads could attempt to read through a
+ corrupted pointer. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
+
+ sort with at least two threads and with blocked output would busy-loop
+ (spinlock) all threads, often using 100% of available CPU cycles to
+ do no work. I.e., "sort < big-file | less" could waste a lot of power.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
+
+ sort with at least two threads no longer segfaults due to use of pointers
+ into the stack of an expired thread. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
+
+ sort --compress no longer mishandles subprocesses' exit statuses,
+ no longer hangs indefinitely due to a bug in waiting for subprocesses,
+ and no longer generates many more than NMERGE subprocesses.
+
+ sort -m -o f f ... f no longer dumps core when file descriptors are limited.
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ sort will not create more than 8 threads by default due to diminishing
+ performance gains. Also the --parallel option is no longer restricted
+ to the number of available processors.
+
+** New features
+
+ split accepts the --number option to generate a specific number of files.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.7 (2010-11-13) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ cp, install, mv, and touch no longer crash when setting file times
+ on Solaris 10 Update 9 [Solaris PatchID 144488 and newer expose a
+ latent bug introduced in coreutils 8.1, and possibly a second latent
+ bug going at least as far back as coreutils 5.97]
+
+ csplit no longer corrupts heap when writing more than 999 files,
+ nor does it leak memory for every chunk of input processed
+ [the bugs were present in the initial implementation]
+
+ tail -F once again notices changes in a currently unavailable
+ remote directory [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ cp --attributes-only now completely overrides --reflink.
+ Previously a reflink was needlessly attempted.
+
+ stat's %X, %Y, and %Z directives once again print only the integer
+ part of seconds since the epoch. This reverts a change from
+ coreutils-8.6, that was deemed unnecessarily disruptive.
+ To obtain a nanosecond-precision time stamp for %X use %.X;
+ if you want (say) just 3 fractional digits, use %.3X.
+ Likewise for %Y and %Z.
+
+ stat's new %W format directive would print floating point seconds.
+ However, with the above change to %X, %Y and %Z, we've made %W work
+ the same way as the others.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 8.6 (2010-10-15) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose
link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by
following symlinks or via multiple arguments.
found to be part of a directory cycle. Before, du would issue a
"NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER" diagnostic and fail.
+ split now diagnoses read errors rather than silently exiting.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-4.5.8]
+
tac would perform a double-free when given an input line longer than 16KiB.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.3]
+ tail -F once again notices changes in a currently unavailable directory,
+ and works around a Linux kernel bug where inotify runs out of resources.
+ [bugs introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+
tr now consistently handles case conversion character classes.
In some locales, valid conversion specifications caused tr to abort,
while in all locales, some invalid specifications were undiagnosed.
stat no longer accepts the --context (-Z) option. Initially it was
merely accepted and ignored, for compatibility. Starting two years
ago, with coreutils-7.0, its use evoked a warning. Printing the
- SELinux context can be done with the %C format directive, and the
- default output when no format is specified now automatically
+ SELinux context of a file can be done with the %C format directive,
+ and the default output when no format is specified now automatically
includes %C when context information is available.
+ stat no longer accepts the %C directive when the --file-system
+ option is in effect, since security context is a file attribute
+ rather than a file system attribute.
+
stat now outputs the full sub-second resolution for the atime,
mtime, and ctime values since the Epoch, when using the %X, %Y, and
%Z directives of the --format option. This matches the fact that
if it uses helper processes for compression and its parent
ignores CHLD signals. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9]
- tail without -f no longer access uninitialized memory
+ tail without -f no longer accesses uninitialized memory
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.6]
timeout is now immune to the signal handling of its parent.
ls -LR exits with status 2, not 0, when it encounters a cycle
- ls -is is now consistent with ls -lis in ignoring values returned
+ "ls -is" is now consistent with ls -lis in ignoring values returned
from a failed stat/lstat. For example ls -Lis now prints "?", not "0",
for the inode number and allocated size of a dereferenced dangling symlink.
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
"rm --interactive=never F" no longer prompts for an unwritable F
- "rm -rf D" would emit an misleading diagnostic when failing to
+ "rm -rf D" would emit a misleading diagnostic when failing to
remove a symbolic link within the unwritable directory, D.
Introduced in coreutils-6.0. Similarly, when a cross-partition
"mv" fails because the source directory is unwritable, it now gives
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