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 GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
-* 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 &nbsp) 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.
 
@@ -38,6 +140,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   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,
@@ -177,7 +284,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   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