findutils @ Savannah: GNU findutils 4.10.0 released
This is to announce findutils-4.10.0, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.
GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match
certain criteria and for performing various operations on them.
Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate".
More information about findutils is available at:
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
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There have been 88 commits by 8 people in the - sigh - 121 weeks since 4.9.0:
Antonio Diaz Diaz (2) James Youngman (24)
Bernhard Voelker (57) John A. Leuenhagen (1)
Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1) Shuiqing Zhou (1)
Helmut Grohne (1) ribbon (1)
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72
Automake 1.16.5
M4 1.4.18
Gnulib v1.0-187-g623bcc22f4
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Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
Have a nice day,
Bernhard Voelker [on behalf of the GNU findutils maintainers]
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NEWS
- Noteworthy changes in release 4.10.0 (2024-06-01) [stable]
** Bug Fixes
Find now defaults to optimization level 1 rather than 2 and the
cost-based optimizer will only run at level 2 and above. This
should prevent changes of operation order which result in
user-visible differences in behaviour. [#58427]
If the -P option to xargs is not used, xargs will not change the way
in which the SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 signals are handled. This means
that they will cause the program to terminate if the signals were
not ignored in the process which started xargs. This also means that
xargs does not use parallel execution at all.
If you start xargs with '-P 1', then xargs will not be killed by these
signals, and they instead change the degree of parallelism.
This change improves xargs' POSIX compliance.
'xargs -P' now waits for all its child processes to complete before
exiting, even if one of them exits with status 255. [#64451]
If the -P option of xargs is in use, reads on standard input which are
interrupted by a signal are re-started. [#64442]
'find -name /' no longer outputs a warning, because that is a valid pattern
to match the root directory "/". Previously, a diagnostic falsely claimed
that this pattern would not match anything. [#62227]
'find -gid' (without the mandatory argument) now outputs a correct error
diagnostic. Previously it output: "find: invalid argument -gid' to-gid'".
The error diagnostic for non-numeric arguments has been improved as well.
Likewise for -inum, -links and -uid.
'find -user' and 'find -group' now allow to specify larger UIDs/GIDs.
Previously, that was limited to INT_MAX, although the types uid_t and gid_t
are larger on many systems, including x86_64 GNU/Linux. [#64900]
'find -xtype l' no longer fails on symbolic links that point to
themselves. These are treated similarly to broken links. [#51926]
** Improvements
The find predicates -used, -amin, -cmin, -mmin, -atime, -ctime, and -mtime
now properly diagnose a not-a-number argument. Previously, find dumped
core via an assertion. [#64717]
** Changes to the build process
findutils now builds again on systems with musl-libc.
This requires gettext-0.19.8.
findutils 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.
On systems without any year2038 support configure with --disable-year2038.
** Documentation Changes
When generating the Texinfo manual, makeinfo is invoked with the --no-split
option for all output formats now; this avoids files like find.info-[12].
The xargs documentation now describes the double dash "--" option delimiter.
The xargs examples in the Texinfo manual now use the -L and --replace options
instead of the deprecated -l and -i options. [#64480]
The TexInfo manual now uses upper-case 'B' as birthtime for the -newerXY
comparison consistently. [#65378]
** Translations
Updated the following translations: Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese,
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional),
Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French,
Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Luganda, Malay, Norwegian
Bokmaal, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,
Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
