I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.6b of GNU findutils. GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.
This is a "development" release of findutils. It can be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. The 4.5.x release series is intended to allow people to try out, comment on or contribute to new features of findutils. During the 4.5.x release series some features may be introduced and then changed or removed as a result of feedback or experience. In short, please don't rely on backward compatibility later in the release series. While this is a development release, it is tested before being released, principally with the regression test suite (run "make check" to use it). The Savannah website (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils) contains a current list of known bugs in findutils (for both the stable and development branches). Bugs in GNU findutils should be reported to the findutils bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils. Reporting bugs via the web interface will ensure that you are automatically informed when the bug has been fixed. General discussion of findutils takes place on the bug-findutils mailing list. To join the 'bug-findutils' mailing list, send email to <[email protected]>. To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public key of the findutils maintainer, James Youngman. You can download this from http://savannah.gnu.org/users/jay. Please note that the key being used is not the same as the key that was used to sign previous releases. Release 4.5.6b is a replacement for 4.5.6, which has never been available by FTP, because of a bug CVE-2009-4029 (see <http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4029> for details). It wasn't possible to simply provide a changed 4.5.6 release, because among other things I didn't want to rewind the master branch on the git repository. * Major changes in release 4.5.6b, 2010-03-30 This is a replacement release for 4.5.6, which is not available by FTP since it contains Makefiles which are vulnerable to CVE-2009-4029. * Major changes in release 4.5.6, 2010-03-30 ** Functional Enhancements to find patch #4848: Patch - Support for SELinux ** Bug Fixes #28872: Mistake in "#safer" example in "Problems with -exec and filenames" section of the Texinfo manual. #28824: Corrected error message for "-ctime x". Likewise for -gid, -inum, -links, -mmin, -cmin, -amin, -uid, -used, -atime, -mtime, -ctime. #27975: Infinite loop for -exec [..] {} +. #27846: Assertion failure in xargs.c on AIX. #27375: Open file descriptors leak into child processes. #27017: find -D opt / -fstype ext3 -print , -quit coredumps #27328: segfault if the initial exec for "find -exec" fails. #27017: find -D opt / -fstype ext3 -print , -quit coredumps. #26868: compilation error in pred.c on Solaris x86_64 #24873: Duplicate fprint option corrupts output #23920: warn about un-matchable -path arguments ending in /. #19120: Patch to fix single quotes in man page find(1) ** Documentation Changes #26327: xargs man page is vague about the number of times command is executed. -- James Youngman <[email protected]> GNU findutils maintainer
