[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.19.1-2
A new release of wget, 1.19.1-2, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.19.1-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a rebuild, in order to fix CVE-2017-6508 as well as build against libidn2. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: wget-1.19.1-2
A new release of wget, 1.19.1-2, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.19.1-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a rebuild, in order to fix CVE-2017-6508 as well as build against libidn2. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.4-1
The 4.4-1 release of sed has been promoted from experimental to current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, packaged by a new maintainer. This release introduces an important change in behavior from earlier versions: when operating on binary mounts, sed no longer forces text mode, and therefore no longer strips carriage returns (behaving more like Linux on those carriage returns). Behavior on text mode mounts is unchanged (where carriage returns are already taken care of by the fact that the file is opened in text mode rather than binary mode). This change is made in parallel to grep and awk changes along the same lines. Since this includes pipelines by default, this means that if you pipe text data through a pipeline (such as the output of a windows program), you may need to insert a call to d2u (or similar) to sanitize your input before passing it to sed. For more details on sed, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/sed/. DESCRIPTION: The GNU Sed (Stream EDitor) editor is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor. Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on the text, and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified in a script file or from the command line. 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 'sed' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 sed package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-3.0-2
The 3.0-2 release of grep has been promoted from experimental to current. NEWS: = This release introduces an important change in behavior from earlier versions: when operating on binary mounts, grep no longer forces text mode, and therefore no longer strips carriage returns (behaving more like Linux on those carriage returns). Behavior on text mode mounts is unchanged (where carriage returns are already taken care of by the fact that the file is opened in text mode rather than binary mode). This change is made in parallel to sed and awk changes along the same lines. Since this includes pipelines by default, this means that if you pipe text data through a pipeline (such as the output of a windows program), you may need to insert a call to d2u (or similar) to sanitize your input before passing it to grep. The impact of the options 'grep -u' and 'grep -U' is now limited to just text-mounted file descriptors. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: sed-4.4-1
The 4.4-1 release of sed has been promoted from experimental to current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, packaged by a new maintainer. This release introduces an important change in behavior from earlier versions: when operating on binary mounts, sed no longer forces text mode, and therefore no longer strips carriage returns (behaving more like Linux on those carriage returns). Behavior on text mode mounts is unchanged (where carriage returns are already taken care of by the fact that the file is opened in text mode rather than binary mode). This change is made in parallel to grep and awk changes along the same lines. Since this includes pipelines by default, this means that if you pipe text data through a pipeline (such as the output of a windows program), you may need to insert a call to d2u (or similar) to sanitize your input before passing it to sed. For more details on sed, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/sed/. DESCRIPTION: The GNU Sed (Stream EDitor) editor is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor. Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on the text, and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified in a script file or from the command line. 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 'sed' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 sed package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
Updated: grep-3.0-2
The 3.0-2 release of grep has been promoted from experimental to current. NEWS: = This release introduces an important change in behavior from earlier versions: when operating on binary mounts, grep no longer forces text mode, and therefore no longer strips carriage returns (behaving more like Linux on those carriage returns). Behavior on text mode mounts is unchanged (where carriage returns are already taken care of by the fact that the file is opened in text mode rather than binary mode). This change is made in parallel to sed and awk changes along the same lines. Since this includes pipelines by default, this means that if you pipe text data through a pipeline (such as the output of a windows program), you may need to insert a call to d2u (or similar) to sanitize your input before passing it to grep. The impact of the options 'grep -u' and 'grep -U' is now limited to just text-mounted file descriptors. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1
A new release of dash, 0.5.9.1-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; replacing 0.5.8-3 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For now, there are no immediate plans of replacing /bin/sh with dash, but the possibility remains for the future. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/dash/. DESCRIPTION: DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Base' or 'Shells' category (it should already be automatically selected). Be sure that you do not have any cygwin programs running during the upgrade. 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 dash package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1
A new release of dash, 0.5.9.1-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; replacing 0.5.8-3 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For now, there are no immediate plans of replacing /bin/sh with dash, but the possibility remains for the future. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/dash/. DESCRIPTION: DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Base' or 'Shells' category (it should already be automatically selected). Be sure that you do not have any cygwin programs running during the upgrade. 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 dash package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: grep-3.0-2
A new test release of grep, 3.0-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the current version at 3.0-1. NEWS: = This build modifies the behavior of grep to no longer force text mode on binary-mounted file descriptors. Since this includes pipelines by default, this means that if you pipe text data through a pipeline (such as the output of a windows program), you may need to insert a call to d2u to sanitize your input before passing it to grep. The impact of the options 'grep -u' and 'grep -U' is now limited to just text-mounted file descriptors. These changes match what is being done in the experimental sed-4.4-1 and gawk-4.1.4-3. Presumably, all three programs will be promoted to current once we decide if the policy of behaving more like Linux on carriage returns in a binary mount makes sense. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.19.1-1
A new release of wget, 1.19.1-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.19-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: wget-1.19.1-1
A new release of wget, 1.19.1-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.19-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3, libreadline-devel-7.0.3-3
A new release of readline, 7.0.3-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. The previous version is now 7.0.1-2 (which was experimental, but never current; but the only difference from 7.0.1-1 was handling of pselect which is now fixed in cygwin 2.7.0-1). NEWS: = This is a rebuild to fold in two new official upstream patches, and to build against newer cygwin1.dll that fixes handling of alt-numkeypad extended character entry in a windows console. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the readline package. This release requires cygwin-2.7.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline/. DESCRIPTION: The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline7 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. libreadline-devel provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. 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 'libreadline7' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'libreadline-devel' in the 'Devel' 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 readline package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3, libreadline-devel-7.0.3-3
A new release of readline, 7.0.3-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. The previous version is now 7.0.1-2 (which was experimental, but never current; but the only difference from 7.0.1-1 was handling of pselect which is now fixed in cygwin 2.7.0-1). NEWS: = This is a rebuild to fold in two new official upstream patches, and to build against newer cygwin1.dll that fixes handling of alt-numkeypad extended character entry in a windows console. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the readline package. This release requires cygwin-2.7.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline/. DESCRIPTION: The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline7 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. libreadline-devel provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. 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 'libreadline7' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'libreadline-devel' in the 'Devel' 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 readline package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: Updated: coreutils-8.26-2
On 02/03/2017 01:46 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > A new release of coreutils, 8.26-2, has been uploaded, and will be > available soon from your favorite mirror. The new release is > experimental, and REQUIRES the use of the experimental cygwin-2.7.0-0.1 > (or better) release; the current version remains 8.26-1 for > compatibility with the current stable cygwin dll; once the next cygwin > release occurs, I will promote 8.26-2 to current with another > announcement email. Now that cygwin 2.7.0-1 is available, I've promoted coreutils 8.26-2 to current. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Updated: coreutils-8.26-2
On 02/03/2017 01:46 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > A new release of coreutils, 8.26-2, has been uploaded, and will be > available soon from your favorite mirror. The new release is > experimental, and REQUIRES the use of the experimental cygwin-2.7.0-0.1 > (or better) release; the current version remains 8.26-1 for > compatibility with the current stable cygwin dll; once the next cygwin > release occurs, I will promote 8.26-2 to current with another > announcement email. Now that cygwin 2.7.0-1 is available, I've promoted coreutils 8.26-2 to current. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: sed-4.4-1
A new experimental release of sed, 4.4-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the current version at 3.2.2-3. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, packaged by a new maintainer. The release will be marked experimental for a few days, first because it was built against the not-yet-released cygwin 2.7,0, and second because I made a tweak that no longer automatically strips carriage returns from input on binary mounts (things on text mode mounts should remain unchanged). Please speak up if this breaks your usage. For more details on sed, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/sed/. DESCRIPTION: The GNU Sed (Stream EDitor) editor is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor. Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on the text, and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified in a script file or from the command line. 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 'sed' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 sed package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated [test]: sed-4.4-1
A new experimental release of sed, 4.4-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the current version at 3.2.2-3. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, packaged by a new maintainer. The release will be marked experimental for a few days, first because it was built against the not-yet-released cygwin 2.7,0, and second because I made a tweak that no longer automatically strips carriage returns from input on binary mounts (things on text mode mounts should remain unchanged). Please speak up if this breaks your usage. For more details on sed, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/sed/. DESCRIPTION: The GNU Sed (Stream EDitor) editor is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor. Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on the text, and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified in a script file or from the command line. 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 'sed' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 sed package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-3.0-1
A new release of grep, 3.0-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.27-2. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: grep-3.0-1
A new release of grep, 3.0-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.27-2. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.19-1
A new release of wget, 1.19-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.18-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: wget-1.19-1
A new release of wget, 1.19-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.18-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
Updated [test]: coreutils-8.26-2
A new release of coreutils, 8.26-2, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. The new release is experimental, and REQUIRES the use of the experimental cygwin-2.7.0-0.1 (or better) release; the current version remains 8.26-1 for compatibility with the current stable cygwin dll; once the next cygwin release occurs, I will promote 8.26-2 to current with another announcement email. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild to add 'stty -iutf8' functionality, now that the experimental cygwin has added this terminal knob. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. 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 b2sum 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
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: coreutils-8.26-2
A new release of coreutils, 8.26-2, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. The new release is experimental, and REQUIRES the use of the experimental cygwin-2.7.0-0.1 (or better) release; the current version remains 8.26-1 for compatibility with the current stable cygwin dll; once the next cygwin release occurs, I will promote 8.26-2 to current with another announcement email. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild to add 'stty -iutf8' functionality, now that the experimental cygwin has added this terminal knob. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. 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 b2sum 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.27-2
A new release of grep, 2.27-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.27-1. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild that improves the --version output to make it obvious whether Cygwin grep is in use. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: grep-2.27-2
A new release of grep, 2.27-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.27-1. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild that improves the --version output to make it obvious whether Cygwin grep is in use. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.4.12-3
A new release of bash, 4.4.12-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. This release replaces 4.4.11-2 as current, and works with either the current libreadline7-7.0.1-1 or experimental libreadline7-7.0.1-2. NEWS: = This build incorporates 6 new official upstream patches; no downstream Cygwin changes have been made from the previous build. There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version: 1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments. Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by default. 2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script into binary line endings. 3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style, because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories. 4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr", to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways to activate this option: 4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang: (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed 4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in 'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'. 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV, pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will source this file on startup for every script. 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash, but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in 3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in non-interactive use. 4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS proved to be more powerful. 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash will treat \r during variable expansion. 6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior). Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled. 7. As an additional cygwin extension, this version of bash includes completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe' makes completion strip .exe suffixes 8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than 'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them. 9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches. Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE (now officially upstream) and completion_strip_exe patches. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.1-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/. DESCRIPTION: Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to some Linux distributions (although /bin/sh may swap to dash at some future time). UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/
Updated: bash-4.4.12-3
A new release of bash, 4.4.12-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. This release replaces 4.4.11-2 as current, and works with either the current libreadline7-7.0.1-1 or experimental libreadline7-7.0.1-2. NEWS: = This build incorporates 6 new official upstream patches; no downstream Cygwin changes have been made from the previous build. There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version: 1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments. Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by default. 2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script into binary line endings. 3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style, because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories. 4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr", to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways to activate this option: 4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang: (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed 4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in 'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'. 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV, pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will source this file on startup for every script. 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash, but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in 3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in non-interactive use. 4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS proved to be more powerful. 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash will treat \r during variable expansion. 6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior). Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled. 7. As an additional cygwin extension, this version of bash includes completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe' makes completion strip .exe suffixes 8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than 'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them. 9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches. Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE (now officially upstream) and completion_strip_exe patches. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.1-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/. DESCRIPTION: Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to some Linux distributions (although /bin/sh may swap to dash at some future time). UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.4.11-2
A new release of bash, 4.4.11-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. This release replaces 4.4.5-1 as current, and works with either the current libreadline7-7.0.1-1 or experimental libreadline7-7.0.1-2. NEWS: = This build incorporates 6 new official upstream patches; no downstream Cygwin changes have been made from the previous build. There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version: 1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments. Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by default. 2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script into binary line endings. 3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style, because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories. 4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr", to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways to activate this option: 4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang: (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed 4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in 'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'. 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV, pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will source this file on startup for every script. 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash, but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in 3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in non-interactive use. 4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS proved to be more powerful. 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash will treat \r during variable expansion. 6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior). Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled. 7. As an additional cygwin extension, this version of bash includes completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe' makes completion strip .exe suffixes 8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than 'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them. 9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches. Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE (now officially upstream) and completion_strip_exe patches. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.1-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/. DESCRIPTION: Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to some Linux distributions (although /bin/sh may swap to dash at some future time). UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web
Updated: bash-4.4.11-2
A new release of bash, 4.4.11-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. This release replaces 4.4.5-1 as current, and works with either the current libreadline7-7.0.1-1 or experimental libreadline7-7.0.1-2. NEWS: = This build incorporates 6 new official upstream patches; no downstream Cygwin changes have been made from the previous build. There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version: 1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments. Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by default. 2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script into binary line endings. 3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style, because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories. 4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr", to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways to activate this option: 4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang: (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed 4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in 'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'. 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV, pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will source this file on startup for every script. 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash, but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in 3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in non-interactive use. 4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS proved to be more powerful. 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash will treat \r during variable expansion. 6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior). Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled. 7. As an additional cygwin extension, this version of bash includes completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe' makes completion strip .exe suffixes 8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than 'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them. 9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches. Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE (now officially upstream) and completion_strip_exe patches. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.1-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/. DESCRIPTION: Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to some Linux distributions (although /bin/sh may swap to dash at some future time). UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: libreadline7-7.0.1-2, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-2
A new release of readline, 7.0.1-2, has been uploaded for testing and will soon reach a mirror near you. The current version of 7.0.1-1 remains current. NEWS: = This is a rebuild that disables the use of pselect(), in order to work around a bug in cygwin1.dll's handling of alt-numkeypad extended character entry in a windows console. The underlying cygwin bug will be fixed in the next release, at which point I will release readline 7.0.1-3 that restores the use of pselect(), so this particular build will remain experimental, and should only be used if you need a fix for windows console behavior now (if you use mintty as your terminal, which is the cygwin default, then you don't need to upgrade). More details in this thread: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00246.html Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the readline package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline/. DESCRIPTION: The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline7 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. libreadline-devel provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. 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 'libreadline7' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'libreadline-devel' in the 'Devel' 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 readline package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated [test]: libreadline7-7.0.1-2, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-2
A new release of readline, 7.0.1-2, has been uploaded for testing and will soon reach a mirror near you. The current version of 7.0.1-1 remains current. NEWS: = This is a rebuild that disables the use of pselect(), in order to work around a bug in cygwin1.dll's handling of alt-numkeypad extended character entry in a windows console. The underlying cygwin bug will be fixed in the next release, at which point I will release readline 7.0.1-3 that restores the use of pselect(), so this particular build will remain experimental, and should only be used if you need a fix for windows console behavior now (if you use mintty as your terminal, which is the cygwin default, then you don't need to upgrade). More details in this thread: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00246.html Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the readline package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline/. DESCRIPTION: The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline7 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. libreadline-devel provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. 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 'libreadline7' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'libreadline-devel' in the 'Devel' 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 readline package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gperf-3.1-1
A new release of gperf, 3.1-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.0.4-2. NEWS: = This represents a new upstream release. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gperf/. DESCRIPTION: Gperf is a perfect hash function generator written in C++. Simply stated, a perfect hash function is a hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly one probe into the data structure. 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 'gperf' in the 'Devel' 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 gperf package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: gperf-3.1-1
A new release of gperf, 3.1-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.0.4-2. NEWS: = This represents a new upstream release. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gperf/. DESCRIPTION: Gperf is a perfect hash function generator written in C++. Simply stated, a perfect hash function is a hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly one probe into the data structure. 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 'gperf' in the 'Devel' 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 gperf package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.18-1
A new release of m4, 1.4.18-1, will soon be available on your favorite mirror, leaving 1.4.17-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For the (minor) upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/m4. You must rebuild from source if you want the experimental changeword feature enabled, as using it can slow down normal operation, and since it will disappear from the eventual m4 2.0. DESCRIPTION: m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU m4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. 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 look for 'm4' in the 'Interpreters' 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 m4 package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.1-1, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-1, bash-4.4.5-1
The releases of readline 7.0.1-1 and bash 4.4.5-1, which have been experimental for a few weeks, have now been promoted to current. Please refer to the earlier announcements for more information about these releases: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-12/msg9.html https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-12/msg00028.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 readline/bash package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: libreadline7-7.0.1-1, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-1, bash-4.4.5-1
The releases of readline 7.0.1-1 and bash 4.4.5-1, which have been experimental for a few weeks, have now been promoted to current. Please refer to the earlier announcements for more information about these releases: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-12/msg9.html https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-12/msg00028.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 readline/bash package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.26-1
A new release of coreutils, 8.26-1, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.25-3 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. Among other things, this includes a new 'b2sum' utility. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. 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 b2sum 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: coreutils-8.26-1
A new release of coreutils, 8.26-1, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.25-3 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. Among other things, this includes a new 'b2sum' utility. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. 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 b2sum 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
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: bash-4.4.5-1
A new release of bash, 4.4.5-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. For now it is marked experimental, and requires the use of experimental readline7-7.0.1-1 (leaving bash 4.3.48-8 as the current version). But if no major complaints are raised during testing, this will be promoted to current in a few days. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version: 1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments. Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by default. 2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script into binary line endings. 3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style, because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories. 4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr", to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways to activate this option: 4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang: (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed 4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in 'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'. 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV, pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will source this file on startup for every script. 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash, but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in 3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in non-interactive use. 4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS proved to be more powerful. 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash will treat \r during variable expansion. 6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior). Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled. 7. As an additional cygwin extension, this version of bash includes completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe' makes completion strip .exe suffixes 8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than 'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them. 9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches. Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE (now officially upstream) and completion_strip_exe patches. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/. DESCRIPTION: Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to some Linux distributions (although /bin/sh may swap to dash at some future time). UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
Updated [test]: bash-4.4.5-1
A new release of bash, 4.4.5-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you. For now it is marked experimental, and requires the use of experimental readline7-7.0.1-1 (leaving bash 4.3.48-8 as the current version). But if no major complaints are raised during testing, this will be promoted to current in a few days. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version: 1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments. Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by default. 2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script into binary line endings. 3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style, because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories. 4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr", to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways to activate this option: 4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang: (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed 4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in 'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'. 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV, pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will source this file on startup for every script. 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash, but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in 3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in non-interactive use. 4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS proved to be more powerful. 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash will treat \r during variable expansion. 6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior). Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled. 7. As an additional cygwin extension, this version of bash includes completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe' makes completion strip .exe suffixes 8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than 'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them. 9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches. Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE (now officially upstream) and completion_strip_exe patches. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/. DESCRIPTION: Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to some Linux distributions (although /bin/sh may swap to dash at some future time). UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
Updated: bash-4.3.48-8
A new release of bash, 4.3.48-8, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It leave 4.3.46-7 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that incorporates two official upstream patches,
while I work on the larger project of building bash 4.4 for Cygwin.
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than
proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to
death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches.
Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE and
completion_strip_exe patches.
Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when
you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or
later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/.
DESCRIPTION:
Bash is an sh-compatible shell that
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.48-8
A new release of bash, 4.3.48-8, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It leave 4.3.46-7 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that incorporates two official upstream patches,
while I work on the larger project of building bash 4.4 for Cygwin.
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than
proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to
death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches.
Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE and
completion_strip_exe patches.
Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when
you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or
later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/bash/.
DESCRIPTION:
Bash is an sh-compatible shell that
Updated: tar-1.29-1
A new release of tar, 1.29-1, will soon be available at your favorite mirror, leaving 1.28-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream release notes can be found alongside other documentation in /usr/share/doc/tar/. This also fixes an accidental regression, where the cygwin build of 1.28-1 lost the patches for text mount interoperability that were present in 1.27.1-1. DESCRIPTION: GNU Tar is an archiver program. It is used to create and manipulate files that are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method of controlling a large amount of data. Despite its name, that is an acronym of "tape archiver", GNU Tar is able to direct its output to any available devices, files or other programs, it may as well access remote devices or files. The main areas of usage for GNU Tar are: storage, backup and transportation. 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 'tar' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 tar package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.29-1
A new release of tar, 1.29-1, will soon be available at your favorite mirror, leaving 1.28-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream release notes can be found alongside other documentation in /usr/share/doc/tar/. This also fixes an accidental regression, where the cygwin build of 1.28-1 lost the patches for text mount interoperability that were present in 1.27.1-1. DESCRIPTION: GNU Tar is an archiver program. It is used to create and manipulate files that are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method of controlling a large amount of data. Despite its name, that is an acronym of "tape archiver", GNU Tar is able to direct its output to any available devices, files or other programs, it may as well access remote devices or files. The main areas of usage for GNU Tar are: storage, backup and transportation. 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 'tar' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 tar package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: libreadline7-7.0.1-1, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-1
A new release of readline, 7.0.1-1, has been uploaded for testing and will soon reach a mirror near you. The current version of 6.3.8-1 remains current until after I can get bash 4.4 built and tested, at which time I will promote readline 7.0.1 into current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, adding several new features which are in part required by bash 4.4. Although upstream bumped the major version from 6 to 7 in the library version number, it appears that the changes to the .dll were additive, and therefore I kept the shared library versioned at libreadline7. But since I did not do a close audit, it is still possible that testing will reveal problems that require me to bump things to libreadline8 before promoting this to current. Help in testing is appreciated. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the readline package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline/. DESCRIPTION: The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline7 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. libreadline-devel provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. 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 'libreadline7' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'libreadline-devel' in the 'Devel' 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 readline package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated [test]: libreadline7-7.0.1-1, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-1
A new release of readline, 7.0.1-1, has been uploaded for testing and will soon reach a mirror near you. The current version of 6.3.8-1 remains current until after I can get bash 4.4 built and tested, at which time I will promote readline 7.0.1 into current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, adding several new features which are in part required by bash 4.4. Although upstream bumped the major version from 6 to 7 in the library version number, it appears that the changes to the .dll were additive, and therefore I kept the shared library versioned at libreadline7. But since I did not do a close audit, it is still possible that testing will reveal problems that require me to bump things to libreadline8 before promoting this to current. Help in testing is appreciated. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the readline package. This release requires cygwin-2.6.0-1 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline/. DESCRIPTION: The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline7 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. libreadline-devel provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. 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 'libreadline7' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'libreadline-devel' in the 'Devel' 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 readline package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.27-1
A new release of grep, 2.27-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.25-1. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffutils-3.5-2
A new release of diffutils, 3.5-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.5-1. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild, mainly for the purpose of moving 'cmp' into the Base category as part of the default Cygwin install (since cmp is one of the fundamental POSIX utilities). DESCRIPTION: Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3, and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 diffutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: diffutils-3.5-2
A new release of diffutils, 3.5-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.5-1. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild, mainly for the purpose of moving 'cmp' into the Base category as part of the default Cygwin install (since cmp is one of the fundamental POSIX utilities). DESCRIPTION: Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3, and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 diffutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gzip-1.8-1
A new release of gzip, 1.8-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 1.7-2. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gzip/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. It was developed as a replacement for compress because of Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm at the time. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. 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 'gzip' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 gzip package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: gzip-1.8-1
A new release of gzip, 1.8-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 1.7-2. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gzip/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. It was developed as a replacement for compress because of Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm at the time. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. 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 'gzip' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 gzip package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.25-1
A new release of grep, 2.25-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.24-1. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: grep-2.25-1
A new release of grep, 2.25-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.24-1. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
Updated: diffutils-3.5-1
A new release of diffutils, 3.5-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.3-3. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Notably, upstream introduced support for colorized output. DESCRIPTION: Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3, and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Utils' 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 diffutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffutils-3.5-1
A new release of diffutils, 3.5-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.3-3. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Notably, upstream introduced support for colorized output. DESCRIPTION: Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3, and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Utils' 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 diffutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: bash-4.3.46-7
A new release of bash, 4.3.46-7, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It replaces 4.3.46-6, and leaves 4.3.42-4 as the
previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that fixes an accidental regression in 'shopt -s
completion_strip_exe' [1]. Since this is the only change, I'm leaving
4.3.42-4 as the previous version, and reiterating the larger change made
since that version: this build disables some old cruft in upstream code
that tries to use O_TEXT in the 'read' builtin, but instead ends up
eating the character after a carriage return that is not followed by a
newline, even when full binary operation is desired [2]. With this
build, the read builtin now honors the Cygwin-specific 'igncr' shell
option, just like has previously been done in command substitution and
script reading, meaning that you get binary behavior by default, but
enabling 'set -o igncr' makes it impossible for 'read' to see a carriage
return.
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00100.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-03/msg00045.html
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%='
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.46-7
A new release of bash, 4.3.46-7, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It replaces 4.3.46-6, and leaves 4.3.42-4 as the
previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that fixes an accidental regression in 'shopt -s
completion_strip_exe' [1]. Since this is the only change, I'm leaving
4.3.42-4 as the previous version, and reiterating the larger change made
since that version: this build disables some old cruft in upstream code
that tries to use O_TEXT in the 'read' builtin, but instead ends up
eating the character after a carriage return that is not followed by a
newline, even when full binary operation is desired [2]. With this
build, the read builtin now honors the Cygwin-specific 'igncr' shell
option, just like has previously been done in command substitution and
script reading, meaning that you get binary behavior by default, but
enabling 'set -o igncr' makes it impossible for 'read' to see a carriage
return.
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00100.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-03/msg00045.html
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%='
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.46-6
A new release of bash, 4.3.46-6, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It replaces 4.3.43-5, and leaves 4.3.42-4 as the
previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that incorporates a couple more upstream bug fixes
that I missed in the previous build. Since 4.3.43-5 was short-lived,
I'll repeat the change made there: this build disables some old cruft in
upstream code that tries to use O_TEXT in the 'read' builtin, but
instead ends up eating the character after a carriage return that is not
followed by a newline, even when full binary operation is desired [1].
With this build, the read builtin now honors the Cygwin-specific 'igncr'
shell option, just like has previously been done in command substitution
and script reading, meaning that you get binary behavior by default, but
enabling 'set -o igncr' makes it impossible for 'read' to see a carriage
return.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-03/msg00045.html
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities
Updated: bash-4.3.46-6
A new release of bash, 4.3.46-6, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It replaces 4.3.43-5, and leaves 4.3.42-4 as the
previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that incorporates a couple more upstream bug fixes
that I missed in the previous build. Since 4.3.43-5 was short-lived,
I'll repeat the change made there: this build disables some old cruft in
upstream code that tries to use O_TEXT in the 'read' builtin, but
instead ends up eating the character after a carriage return that is not
followed by a newline, even when full binary operation is desired [1].
With this build, the read builtin now honors the Cygwin-specific 'igncr'
shell option, just like has previously been done in command substitution
and script reading, meaning that you get binary behavior by default, but
enabling 'set -o igncr' makes it impossible for 'read' to see a carriage
return.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-03/msg00045.html
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.43-5
A new release of bash, 4.3.43-5, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It leaves 4.3.42-4 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that incorporates an upstream bug fix, as well as
disables some old cruft in upstream code that tries to use O_TEXT in the
'read' builtin, but instead ends up eating the character after a
carriage return that is not followed by a newline, even when full binary
operation is desired [1]. With this build, the read builtin now honors
the Cygwin-specific 'igncr' shell option, just like has previously been
done in command substitution and script reading, meaning that you get
binary behavior by default, but enabling 'set -o igncr' makes it
impossible for 'read' to see a carriage return.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-03/msg00045.html
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves,
Updated: bash-4.3.43-5
A new release of bash, 4.3.43-5, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It leaves 4.3.42-4 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that incorporates an upstream bug fix, as well as
disables some old cruft in upstream code that tries to use O_TEXT in the
'read' builtin, but instead ends up eating the character after a
carriage return that is not followed by a newline, even when full binary
operation is desired [1]. With this build, the read builtin now honors
the Cygwin-specific 'igncr' shell option, just like has previously been
done in command substitution and script reading, meaning that you get
binary behavior by default, but enabling 'set -o igncr' makes it
impossible for 'read' to see a carriage return.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-03/msg00045.html
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files; bash-4.3.43-5 adds the read builtin to the list. I hope
to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into a
future bash release even on Linux, rather than keeping it a
cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways
to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves,
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.18-1
A new release of wget, 1.18-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.17.1-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, in part to fix CVE-2016-4971. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: wget-1.18-1
A new release of wget, 1.18-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.17.1-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, in part to fix CVE-2016-4971. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gzip-1.7-2
A new release of gzip, 1.7-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 1.7-1. NEWS: = This is a bug fix build for the recently-reported upstream 'gzip -l' regression. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gzip/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. It was developed as a replacement for compress because of Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm at the time. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. 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 'gzip' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 gzip package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: gzip-1.7-2
A new release of gzip, 1.7-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 1.7-1. NEWS: = This is a bug fix build for the recently-reported upstream 'gzip -l' regression. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gzip/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. It was developed as a replacement for compress because of Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm at the time. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. 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 'gzip' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 gzip package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: wget-1.17.1-2
A new release of wget, 1.17.1-2, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.17.1-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild to pick up the new libpsl library and latest cygwin headers. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.17.1-2
A new release of wget, 1.17.1-2, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.17.1-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild to pick up the new libpsl library and latest cygwin headers. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: patchutils-0.3.4-1
A new version of the patchutils package, 0.3.4-1, will soon be available on a mirror near you, leaving patchutils-0.3.3-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/patchutils/. DESCRIPTION: Patchutils is a small collection of programs that operate on patch files. You can use the programs to combine, filter and split, correct output from 'cvs diff', list and grep patch files. 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 'patchutils' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka 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 patchutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: patchutils-0.3.4-1
A new version of the patchutils package, 0.3.4-1, will soon be available on a mirror near you, leaving patchutils-0.3.3-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/patchutils/. DESCRIPTION: Patchutils is a small collection of programs that operate on patch files. You can use the programs to combine, filter and split, correct output from 'cvs diff', list and grep patch files. 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 'patchutils' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka 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 patchutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gzip-1.7-1
A new release of gzip, 1.7-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 1.6-1. NEWS: = This represents a new upstream release. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gzip/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. It was developed as a replacement for compress because of Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm at the time. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. 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 'gzip' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 gzip package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: gzip-1.7-1
A new release of gzip, 1.7-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 1.6-1. NEWS: = This represents a new upstream release. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gzip/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. It was developed as a replacement for compress because of Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm at the time. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. 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 'gzip' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 gzip package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: coreutils-8.25-3
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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.25-3
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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.24-1
A new release of grep, 2.24-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.21-2. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: grep-2.24-1
A new release of grep, 2.24-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.21-2. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified patter. By default, Grep outputs the matching lines. The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX. 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 'grep' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). 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 grep package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.6.0-1
A new release of findutils, 4.6.0-1, will soon be available on your favorite mirror as the current version, leaving 4.5.12-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See /usr/share/doc/findutils/ for documentation of what has changed. DESCRIPTION: The findutils package contains programs which will help you locate files on your system. The find utility searches through a hierarchy of directories looking for files which match a certain set of criteria (such as a filename pattern). The xargs utility builds and executes command lines from standard input arguments (usually lists of file names generated by the find command). The locate utility scans a database of filenames and displays matches. The updatedb utility builds the database for locate. 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 'findutils' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sourceware.org (aka 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 findutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: findutils-4.6.0-1
A new release of findutils, 4.6.0-1, will soon be available on your favorite mirror as the current version, leaving 4.5.12-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See /usr/share/doc/findutils/ for documentation of what has changed. DESCRIPTION: The findutils package contains programs which will help you locate files on your system. The find utility searches through a hierarchy of directories looking for files which match a certain set of criteria (such as a filename pattern). The xargs utility builds and executes command lines from standard input arguments (usually lists of file names generated by the find command). The locate utility scans a database of filenames and displays matches. The updatedb utility builds the database for locate. 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 'findutils' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sourceware.org (aka 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 findutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.61-1
A new release of diffstat, 1.61-1, is available for download, leaving 1.60-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream changes are mentioned below. See also /usr/share/doc/diffstat/. 2016/01/14 (diffstat 1.61) + add -T option to show amount of changes next to histogram. + if -S option is given, check for unmodified files and add those to the report. + update configure macros + update config.guess, config.sub DESCRIPTION: diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file. It is useful for reviewing large, complex patch files. 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 'diffstat' from the 'Devel' 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 diffstat package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updated: diffstat-1.61-1
A new release of diffstat, 1.61-1, is available for download, leaving 1.60-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream changes are mentioned below. See also /usr/share/doc/diffstat/. 2016/01/14 (diffstat 1.61) + add -T option to show amount of changes next to histogram. + if -S option is given, check for unmodified files and add those to the report. + update configure macros + update config.guess, config.sub DESCRIPTION: diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file. It is useful for reviewing large, complex patch files. 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 'diffstat' from the 'Devel' 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 diffstat package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.25-1
A new release of coreutils, 8.25-1, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.24-3 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. Downstream, this build fixes an upstream bug introduced in 8.24 that might have caused cp, mv, and install to misbehave depending on the result of ACL operations. 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: coreutils-8.25-1
A new release of coreutils, 8.25-1, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.24-3 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. Downstream, this build fixes an upstream bug introduced in 8.24 that might have caused cp, mv, and install to misbehave depending on the result of ACL operations. 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: wget-1.17.1-1
A new release of wget, 1.17.1-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.16.3-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.17.1-1
A new release of wget, 1.17.1-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.16.3-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you're logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. 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 'wget' from the 'Web' 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 wget package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.42-4
A new release of bash, 4.3.42-4, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It is currently marked experimental pending test
results from others that have reported problems on text mounts:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-03/msg00496.html
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00087.html
But assuming it passes those tests, it will be promoted to current,
leaving 4.3.42-3 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that fixes an upstream typo that broke bash
behavior when reading scripts from a text mount, regardless of whether
you used the igncr option. Thanks to Jeff Downs for helping isolate the
problem.
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to
accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than
keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are
several ways to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than
proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to
death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches.
Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE
Updated: bash-4.3.42-4
A new release of bash, 4.3.42-4, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you. It is currently marked experimental pending test
results from others that have reported problems on text mounts:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-03/msg00496.html
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00087.html
But assuming it passes those tests, it will be promoted to current,
leaving 4.3.42-3 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that fixes an upstream typo that broke bash
behavior when reading scripts from a text mount, regardless of whether
you used the igncr option. Thanks to Jeff Downs for helping isolate the
problem.
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints "bash: bad: command not found", your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints "vulnerable", you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named "igncr",
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to
accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than
keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are
several ways to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than
proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to
death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches.
Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE
Updated: coreutils-8.24-3
A new release of coreutils, 8.24-3, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.23-4 as the previous version, and drops the broken 8.24-[12] releases. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. This build fixes a latent uninitialized variable that broke behavior of 'cp -r' (the bug was also present in 8.23-4, but did not trigger there due to different stack contents). This release is also the first stable release to provide the 'stdbuf' utility, thanks to a patch from Yaakov. 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/. 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 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.24-3
A new release of coreutils, 8.24-3, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.23-4 as the previous version, and drops the broken 8.24-[12] releases. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. This build fixes a latent uninitialized variable that broke behavior of 'cp -r' (the bug was also present in 8.23-4, but did not trigger there due to different stack contents). This release is also the first stable release to provide the 'stdbuf' utility, thanks to a patch from Yaakov. 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/. 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 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2
A new test release of coreutils, 8.24-2, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.24-1 as current, and 8.23-4 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a rebuild that enables the 'stdbuf' utility (Thanks to Yaakov for helping with patches to hack it into the build). The stdbuf build fails unit tests (not correctly set up for using an uninstalled dll), but I was able to get it working locally once installed. I'm going to mark this build as experimental for a couple of days to see if it works for others, or if there is anything else I need to do. If I don't get any negative feedback, I will promote it to current at that time. For upstream details on coreutils, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. 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/. 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 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. Since this is an experimental release, you'll have to use the 'Exp' radio button and/or cycle through the possible releases to actually install it. 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2
A new test release of coreutils, 8.24-2, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.24-1 as current, and 8.23-4 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a rebuild that enables the 'stdbuf' utility (Thanks to Yaakov for helping with patches to hack it into the build). The stdbuf build fails unit tests (not correctly set up for using an uninstalled dll), but I was able to get it working locally once installed. I'm going to mark this build as experimental for a couple of days to see if it works for others, or if there is anything else I need to do. If I don't get any negative feedback, I will promote it to current at that time. For upstream details on coreutils, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. 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/. 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 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. Since this is an experimental release, you'll have to use the 'Exp' radio button and/or cycle through the possible releases to actually install it. 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: bash-4.3.42-3
A new release of bash, 4.3.42-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you; leaving 4.3.39-2 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that folds in several new upstream patches.
I am aware of an issue reported with using bash on text mode mounts, but
have not yet had time to investigate if the fault lies in bash or in
cygwin1.dll; this build was done solely as a refresh to a newer
patchlevel while I still investigate.
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints bash: bad: command not found, your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints vulnerable, you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named igncr,
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to
accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than
keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are
several ways to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2/dev/null set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than
proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to
death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches.
Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE and
completion_strip_exe patches.
Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when
you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.2.1-1 or
later. See also the
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.42-3
A new release of bash, 4.3.42-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you; leaving 4.3.39-2 as the previous version.
NEWS:
=
This is a minor build that folds in several new upstream patches.
I am aware of an issue reported with using bash on text mode mounts, but
have not yet had time to investigate if the fault lies in bash or in
cygwin1.dll; this build was done solely as a refresh to a newer
patchlevel while I still investigate.
This build of bash is immune to the ShellShock vulnerabilities (although
unpatched bash 4.3 is vulnerable, the official upstream patches solve
the issue). By now, you should no longer be running a vulnerable bash,
but to double check you can run the following test to make sure you are
not subject to arbitrary remote code execution due to ShellShock:
$ env 'bad=() { echo vulnerable; }' bash -c bad
If it prints bash: bad: command not found, your version of bash is
safe and not subject to remote exploits. If it prints vulnerable, you
need to upgrade now.
There are a few things you should be aware of before using this version:
1. When using binary mounts, cygwin programs try to emulate Linux. Bash
on Linux does not understand \r\n line endings, but interprets the \r
literally, which leads to syntax errors or odd variable assignments.
Therefore, you will get the same behavior on Cygwin binary mounts by
default.
2. d2u is your friend. You can use it to convert any problematic script
into binary line endings.
3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file. If you
absolutely must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the
directory where those files live as a text mount. However, text mounts
are not as well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you
may encounter other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific set option, named igncr,
to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As
of bash-3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and
sourced files. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to
accept this patch into a future bash release even on Linux, rather than
keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are
several ways to activate this option:
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
(set -o igncr) 2/dev/null set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the option, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will
source this file on startup for every script.
4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash,
but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks
the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child
processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in
3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in
non-interactive use.
4e. bash-4.1.9-1 dropped support for 'shopt -s igncr'; it did not make
sense to support the option through both set and shopt, and SHELLOPTS
proved to be more powerful.
5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash will treat \r during variable expansion.
6. There are varying levels of speed at which bash operates. The
fastest is on a binary mount with igncr disabled (the default behavior).
Next would be text mounts with igncr disabled and no \r in the
underlying file. Next would be binary mounts with igncr enabled. And
the slowest that bash will operate is on text mounts with igncr enabled.
7. As additional cygwin extensions, this version of bash includes:
7a. EXECIGNORE - a colon-separated list of glob patterns to ignore
when completing on executables. EXECIGNORE=*.dll is common.
7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
makes completion strip .exe suffixes
8. This version of bash is immune to ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271 and
friends) because it exports functions via 'BASH_FUNC_foo%%=' rather than
'foo=' environment variables. However, doing this has exposed
weaknesses in some other utilities like 'ksh' or 'at' that fail to scrub
their environment to exclude what is not a valid name for them.
9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than
proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to
death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches.
Thanks to Dan Colascione for providing the EXECIGNORE and
completion_strip_exe patches.
Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when
you upgrade the bash package. This release requires cygwin-2.2.1-1 or
later. See also the
Updated: coreutils-8.24-1
A new release of coreutils, 8.24-1, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.23-4 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. 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/. This release does not provide the stdbuf utility, although I am experimenting with patches that have been proposed on list and will upload 8.24-2 if they work out as desired. 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 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 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.24-1
A new release of coreutils, 8.24-1, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This leaves 8.23-4 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. For upstream details, see /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS. 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/. This release does not provide the stdbuf utility, although I am experimenting with patches that have been proposed on list and will upload 8.24-2 if they work out as desired. 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 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 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffutils-3.3-3
A new release of diffutils, 3.3-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.3-2. NEWS: = This is a refresh build, done in order to let 64-bit diffutils take advantage of new stack overflow detection code supported by cygwin 2.1. It also fixes a packaging bug that omitted the various translation files for localized error messaging. DESCRIPTION: Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3, and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Utils' 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 diffutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: diffutils-3.3-3
A new release of diffutils, 3.3-3, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 3.3-2. NEWS: = This is a refresh build, done in order to let 64-bit diffutils take advantage of new stack overflow detection code supported by cygwin 2.1. It also fixes a packaging bug that omitted the various translation files for localized error messaging. DESCRIPTION: Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3, and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. 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 'diffutils' in the 'Utils' 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 diffutils package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.17-2
A new release of m4, 1.4.17-2, will soon be available on your favorite mirror, leaving 1.4.17-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a refresh build, done in order to let 64-bit m4 take advantage of new stack overflow detection code supported by cygwin 2.1. Ideally, you won't notice any change of behavior except on poor input files that cause stack overflow due to indefinite nesting. You must rebuild from source if you want the experimental changeword feature enabled, as using it can slow down normal operation, and since it will disappear from the eventual m4 2.0. If you encounter a problem that might be cygwin-specific, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/m4/. DESCRIPTION: m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU m4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. 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 look for 'm4' in the 'Interpreters' 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 m4 package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: m4-1.4.17-2
A new release of m4, 1.4.17-2, will soon be available on your favorite mirror, leaving 1.4.17-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a refresh build, done in order to let 64-bit m4 take advantage of new stack overflow detection code supported by cygwin 2.1. Ideally, you won't notice any change of behavior except on poor input files that cause stack overflow due to indefinite nesting. You must rebuild from source if you want the experimental changeword feature enabled, as using it can slow down normal operation, and since it will disappear from the eventual m4 2.0. If you encounter a problem that might be cygwin-specific, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/m4/. DESCRIPTION: m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU m4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. 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 look for 'm4' in the 'Interpreters' 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 m4 package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Updated: diffstat-1.60-1
A new release of diffstat, 1.60-1, is available for download, leaving 1.59-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream changes are mentioned below. See also /usr/share/doc/diffstat/. 2015/07/07 (diffstat 1.60) + add configure option --with-man2html + update configure macros + update config.guess, config.sub DESCRIPTION: diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file. It is useful for reviewing large, complex patch files. 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 'diffstat' from the 'Devel' 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 diffstat package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.60-1
A new release of diffstat, 1.60-1, is available for download, leaving 1.59-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream changes are mentioned below. See also /usr/share/doc/diffstat/. 2015/07/07 (diffstat 1.60) + add configure option --with-man2html + update configure macros + update config.guess, config.sub DESCRIPTION: diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file. It is useful for reviewing large, complex patch files. 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 'diffstat' from the 'Devel' 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 diffstat package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated for 32-bit, new for 64-bit: libsigsegv-2.10-2
A new release of libsigsegv, 2.10-2, will soon be available for download from your favorite mirror. On 32-bit cygwin, this leaves 2.10-1 as previous; on 64-bit cygwin, it is a new port of the package, made possible for the first time by new sigaltstack() code in cygwin 2.1.0. NEWS: = This is a 32-bit rebuild and new 64-bit port that completely overhauls how this package works (instead of scraping Windows internals itself, it now lets cygwin do the dirty work). It is also the first release by a new maintainer; I'd like to thank Reini for his previous work in managing this package. I've also taken this opportunity to rename the 'libsigsegv' package for use only by developers into 'libsigsegv-devel'; the dependency system should automatically make things work for you if you had already downloaded the older package name in 32-bit cygwin. Most users only need the 'libsigsegv2' runtime library, and even then, only when it is automatically pulled in by the dependency system. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/libsigsegv/. DESCRIPTION: libsigsegv is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs when a program tries to access a region of memory that is not currently available. This can be used to implement stack overflow detection, memory-mapped access to persistent databases, generational garbage collectors, and other tools. Although upstream claims that the library is small enough to prefer static linking in projects using this library, the cygwin distro favors the use of only dynamic libraries. 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 'libsigsegv2' from the 'Libs' category, or 'libsigsegv-devel' from the 'Devel' 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 libsigsegv package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
