This is the NEWS change that belongs with yesterday's "build: update gnulib submodule to latest" commit.
At first I was going to call this a bug fix, but couldn't really say when the bug was introduced, since NFSv4 ACLs are relatively new. So I'm calling it an "Improvement". I noticed today that I have not yet pushed that gnulib-updating commit, even though it is in the snapshot I did publish. Opinions on whether to amend that commit to include this NEWS update before I push? I'm tempted, since snapshots don't really matter once the release is made, while keeping documentation like this together with the associated change may be worth something in the long run. >From 75b507e109d91c8766e5a84914f0145cf92b8fb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 17:25:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention cp's new support for NFSv4 ACLs * NEWS (Improvements): Mention the cp-vs-NFSv4-ACL improvement we have inherited via gnulib. For details, see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/28100 and the following messages in that thread. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 44e631f..4bad99b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Improvements + cp -p now copies trivial NSFv4 ACLs on Solaris 10. Before, it would + mistakenly apply a non-trivial ACL to the destination file. + cp and ls now support HP-UX 11.11's ACLs, thanks to improved support in gnulib. @@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Changes inherited from gnulib address a build failure on HP-UX 11.11 when using /opt/ansic/bin/cc. + Numerous portability and build improvements inherited via gnulib. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.12 (2011-04-26) [stable] -- 1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14
