We plan to release coreutils-9.3 in the coming week
so any testing you can do on various different systems
between now and then would be most welcome.
This is a bug fix release coming about 3 weeks after the 9.2 release.
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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.7 MB) from:
https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = d208d306026fb42c128a787dffcba17a
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To test follow this standard procedure:
tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
cd coreutils-9.2.18-ffd62/
./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
Failures are reported, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
Please report/attach any issues to [email protected]
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This snapshot was bootstrapped with:
Autoconf 2.72c.16-a1e8
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v0.1-6046-g4b60490554
Bison 3.8.2
Changes in coreutils since v9.2 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:
Pádraig Brady (11):
cksum: fix reporting of failed checks
copy: fix --reflink=auto to fallback in more cases
tests: add a test case for the previous date fix
dircolors: diagnose read errors
wc: diagnose overflow of total counts
tests: adjust csplit VM limit
tests: tee: avoid false failure due to fifo usage
cp: fix --backup with subdirectories
cp,mv: add --update=none to always skip existing files
cp,mv: issue "skipped" messages when skipping files
wc: ensure we update file offset
Paul Eggert (4):
cp: clarify commentary
date: diagnose -f read errors
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
maint: require support for post-2038 timestamps
Nick Alcock (1):
tests: skip some parts of tests/misc/tee.sh if run as root
thank you!
Pádraig
