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| author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2022-02-02 00:05:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2022-02-02 00:05:33 +0100 |
| commit | f56ec21a34427c0ffe7c31303ae4e74b02c77b45 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c7a31abe125c60e4174b392f38d00b3310e11d8 | |
| parent | 1ce4f28720920f4b33d32ce54ed03ca62a15659c (diff) | |
| download | findutils-f56ec21a34427c0ffe7c31303ae4e74b02c77b45.tar.gz | |
NEWS: update before releasev4.9.0
* NEWS: Prepare for the 4.9.0 release: minor re-ordering, and update
entries with bug numbers.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) -* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +* Noteworthy changes in release 4.9.0 (2022-02-22) [stable] ** New features in find find now supports the -files0-from option to be able to safely pass an arbitrary number of starting points to the tool. The option requires a file name as argument, or "-" to read from standard input. The entries in that - file have to be separated by NUL characters. + file have to be separated by NUL characters. [#60383] ** Changes in locate / updatedb - update now skips (fuse-mounted) s3fs filesystems by default, + updatedb now skips (fuse-mounted) s3fs filesystems by default, i.e., unless PRUNEFS is set. ** Bug Fixes @@ -25,15 +25,22 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) Previously, find(1) would abort when visiting such a file. [Bug present since FINDUTILS_4_5_4-1.] + findutils-4.8.0 failed to build on some MacOS versions. + Fixed by a gnulib update. [#59972, #59991] + ** Documentation Changes The find.1 man page and the Texinfo manual now show environment variables in a consistent style. [#59963] + Furthermore, both add the description of the -printf format directive '%B', for a file's birth time, and its limitations. [#61327] The description of the -delete action has been improved and aligned among - the manual page and the Texinfo documentation. + the manual page and the Texinfo documentation. [#61774] + + Various other documentation fixes - syntax issues and typos. + [#61303, #60823, #61341] The output of 'find --help' now reads better. @@ -44,7 +51,8 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) The find version without FTS, oldfind, has been completely removed. It has not been installed since 4.5.18 (2015), and was only still used in tests. -* Noteworthy changes in release 4.8.0 (2020-01-09) [stable] + +* Noteworthy changes in release 4.8.0 (2021-01-09) [stable] ** Changes in xargs |