Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:21:56 +0100
From: Jim Meyering
To: info-gnu@gnu.org, coreutils-announce@gnu.org, bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.2.1 released (stable)
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I am happy to announce a stable release of the GNU coreutils.
The GNU coreutils package is the combination of and replacement
for the fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
This package contains the following programs:
[ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date
dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt
fold groups head hostid hostname id install join kill link ln logname
ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr
printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort
split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty
uname unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes
I consider this to be a bug-fix-only release, in spite of the item listed
under `New features' below. Special thanks to Paul Eggert for all of his
patches and to Dmitri V. Levin for the nohup fix. See the ChangeLog files
for complete details.
Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz (6.3MB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2 (4.1MB)
http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz (6.3MB)
http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2 (4.1MB)
Here are the xdelta-style diffs:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0-5.2.1.xdelta (304KB)
http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-5.2.0-5.2.1.xdelta (304KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz.asc
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2.asc
http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz.asc
http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2.asc
Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:
83a485c9fa9e18903351d7b51bdc5719 coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
172ee3c315af93d3385ddfbeb843c53f coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2
4891763cb563d55d70802a304efdae3b coreutils-5.2.0-5.2.1.xdelta
7d8a29c9b93c66f4702ccd2b462336d499533c6d coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
1028755ae0fa9be840576e4837004cf5a9981c45 coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2
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NEWS
* Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable]
** Bug fixes
mv could mistakenly fail to preserve hard links when moving two
or more arguments between partitions.
`cp --sparse=always F /dev/hdx' no longer tries to use lseek to create
holes in the destination.
nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for its copy of the stderr file
descriptor. This avoids some nohup-induced hangs. For example, before
this change, if you ran `ssh localhost', then `nohup sleep 600