coreutils-9.3 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 19, 2023

 This is to announce coreutils-9.3, a stable release.

This is a bug fix release coming about 4 weeks after the 9.2 release.

See the NEWS below for a summary of changes.

There have been 26 commits by 3 people in the 29 days since 9.2.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!

The following people contributed changes to this release:

  Nick Alcock (1)

  Paul Eggert (5)

  Pádraig Brady (20)

Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]

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Here is the GNU coreutils home page:

    http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v9.3

or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:

  git shortlog v9.2..v9.3

Here are the compressed sources:

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.3.tar.gz   (14MB)

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.3.tar.xz   (5.6MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures:

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.3.tar.gz.sig

  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.3.tar.xz.sig

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Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check

from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.

  gpg --verify coreutils-9.3.tar.gz.sig

  pub   rsa4096/0xDF6FD971306037D9 2011-09-23 [SC]

        Key fingerprint = 6C37 DC12 121A 5006 BC1D  B804 DF6F D971 3060 37D9

  uid                   [ unknown] Pádraig Brady 

  uid                   [ unknown] Pádraig Brady 

  gpg --locate-external-key P@draigBrady.com

  gpg --recv-keys DF6FD971306037D9

  wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=coreutils&download=1' | gpg --import -

  gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify coreutils-9.3.tar.gz.sig

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  Gnulib v0.1-6046-g4b60490554

  Bison 3.8.2

* Noteworthy changes in release 9.3 (2023-04-18) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  cp --reflink=auto (the default), mv, and install

  will again fall back to a standard copy in more cases.

  Previously copies could fail with permission errors on

  more restricted systems like android or containers etc.

  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]

  cp --recursive --backup will again operate correctly.

  Previousy it may have issued "File exists" errors when

  it failed to appropriately rename files being replaced.

  date --file and dircolors will now diagnose a failure to read a file.

  Previously they would have silently ignored the failure.

  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  md5sum --check again correctly prints the status of each file checked.

  Previously the status for files was printed as 'OK' once any file had passed.

  This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum.

  wc will now diagnose if any total counts have overflowed.

  `wc -c` will again correctly update the read offset of inputs.

  Previously it deduced the size of inputs while leaving the offset unchanged.

  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.27]

  Coreutils programs no longer fail for timestamps past the year 2038

  on obsolete configurations with 32-bit signed time_t, because the

  build procedure now rejects these configurations.

** Changes in behavior

  'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now issue an error diagnostic if skipping a file,

  to correspond with -n inducing a nonzero exit status as of coreutils 9.2.

  Similarly 'cp -v' and 'mv -v' will output a message for each file skipped

  due to -n, -i, or -u.

** New features

  cp and mv now support --update=none to always skip existing files

  in the destination, while not affecting the exit status.

  This is equivalent to the --no-clobber behavior from before v9.2.