A new release of coreutils, 8.25-3, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.25-1 as the previous version, and replaces the test-only 8.25-2.
NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. Downstream, this build patches things to build against the latest cygwin headers and make use of newly exported functions in cygwin 2.5.0. Note that this release also includes an upstream change in default behavior in 'ls' when dealing with non-portable filenames: such files are now quoted unambiguously on the terminal (no change when sent to a file or pipeline). There have already been a lot of complaints upstream about the new quoting, and an upcoming upstream release may soften the blow by tweaking the heuristics of how the quoting is done, but I am not going to deviate from upstream's decision about it being a saner default. You can always set an environment variable to your preferred quoting style if you don't like ls's default. If you missed the note in 8.23-2, there is no longer an 'su' program in coreutils; this is an upstream decision (many Linux distros are getting su from other packages, and even though cygwin's su had come from coreutils, it was heavily patched and doesn't work as smoothly as on Linux). I'm still debating whether it is worth trying to capture the last release of coreutils' su, as patched to work on cygwin, for distribution as an independent package; help would be appreciated from anyone else interested in this task. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. I'm also planning to build an experimental coreutils-8.25-2 against the experimental cygwin 2.5 with its new ACL handling, for those that would like to test that it won't introduce regressions. DESCRIPTION: ============ GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment. It comprises the former textutils, sh-utils, and fileutils packages. The following executables are included: [ arch base32 base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold gkill groups head hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc numfmt od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink realpath rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat stdbuf stty sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'coreutils' from the 'Base' category. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from cygwin.com aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
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