A diffutils release is overdue, so here's a snapshot of the latest. In the absence of new bug reports, I expect to release diffutils-2.9 some time next week.
If distributions are carrying patches that they'd like to have included, now is the time. Anyone can propose patches, but those that include git-format-patch style diffs, well-written log entries, NEWS updates (when needed), and added test cases will get especially high priority. diffutils snapshot: (.gz files are here, too) http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz 972 KB http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz.sig http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-2.8.7.131-cc56.tar.xz There are .gz and .sig files here, too: http://people.redhat.com/meyering/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz http://people.redhat.com/meyering/diff/diffutils-2.8.7.131-cc56.tar.xz Here's the NEWS so far: ** New features New diff option --suppress-blank-empty. Bring back support for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number, even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. This change reverts to the behavior of GNU diff 2.7 and earlier. This is a change only when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001; there is no effect when conforming to older POSIX versions. This change is in response to decisions taken in the January 2005 Austin Group standardization meeting. For more details, please see "Utility Syntax Guidelines" in the Minutes of the January 2005 Meeting <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_239.html>. sdiff now understands '1' and '2' as synonyms for 'l' and 'r'. ** Changes in behavior sdiff and diff3 now invoke diff, not $(bindir)/diff ** Administrivia New discussion and bug-reporting address: [email protected] updated gnulib support
