** 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.
du -H and -L now consistently count pointed-to files instead of
symbolic links, and correctly diagnose dangling symlinks.
+ du --ignore=D now ignores directory D even when that directory is
+ 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.
+ [bugs introduced in coreutils 6.9.90 and 6.9.92]
+
** New features
cp now accepts the --attributes-only option to not copy file data,
sort now supports -d, -f, -i, -R, and -V in any combination.
+ stat now accepts the %m format directive to output the mount point
+ for a file. It also accepts the %w and %W format directives for
+ outputting the birth time of a file, if one is available.
+
** Changes in behavior
+ df now consistently prints the device name for a bind mounted file,
+ rather than its aliased target.
+
du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees
with many hard-linked files. With --count-links (-l), or when
operating on trees with no hard-linked files, there is no change.
[The old behavior was introduced in coreutils-6.0 and had been removed
for English only using a different method since coreutils-8.1]
+ rm's -d now evokes an error; before, it was silently ignored.
+
sort -g now uses long doubles for greater range and precision.
sort -h no longer rejects numbers with leading or trailing ".", and
limited with the --parallel option or with external process
control like taskset for example.
+ stat now provides translated output when no format is specified.
+
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.
+ ago, with coreutils-7.0, its use evoked a warning. Printing the
+ 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
+ %x, %y, and %z were already doing so for the human-readable variant.
touch's --file option is no longer recognized. Use --reference=F (-r)
instead. --file has not been documented for 15 years, and its use has
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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