[platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-9.4.170-7b206.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-9.5 in the coming week
so any testing you can do on various different systems
between now and then would be most welcome.
This release comes about 30 weeks after the 9.4 release.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.7 MiB) from:
      https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
      https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
      MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = c02ee9334bc0ca33055d9b0e3523ada2

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To test, follow this standard procedure:

      tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
      cd coreutils-9.4.170-7b206/
      ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are shown, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
Please report/attach any issues to coreutils@gnu.org

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This snapshot was bootstrapped with:

      Autoconf 2.72c.32-cb6fb
      Automake 1.16.5
      Gnulib v0.1-7239-gaf32ee824e
      Bison 3.8.2

Changes in coreutils since v9.4 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Aearil (1):
      wc: fix -w with breaking space over UCHAR_MAX

Bruno Haible (2):
      sort: make the startup time optimization effective on glibc < 2.34
      join: avoid test failure on systems with no French UTF-8 locale

Christian Göttsche (1):
      copy,install: avoid unnecessary security context translations

Collin Funk (4):
      maint: avoid -Wshadow warning under clang
      maint: prefer #include <...> for gnulib substitute headers
      doc: add basic documentation for 'pinky'
      maint: prefer minmax.h instead of defining our own

Daan De Meyer (1):
      cp: add --keep-directory-symlink option

Greg Wooledge (1):
      doc: fix typo in shred example

Grisha Levit (2):
      build: strengthen 16 bit float support checks
      env,kill,timeout: support unnamed signals

Michel Lind (1):
      dircolors: update list of archive file extensions

Paul Eggert (89):
      maint: remove need for mbsalign
      maint: remove rename macro
      kill: rely on Gnulib strsignal
      maint: use modern Gnulib LIB_ macros
      maint: rely on Gnulib fdatasync
      maint: regularize struct initializers
      maint: tune for single thread & locale
      maint: assume non-rare encodings
      maint: Gnulib module gc
      chown: port to mingw and MSVC 14
      maint: simplify set_owner
      cp,mv,install: fix chown on Linux CIFS
      cp,mv,install: fix chmod on Linux CIFS
      cp,mv,install: a bit more up-to-date source stat
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: prefer psame_inode, PSAME_INODE, STP_*
      cp,mv,install: simplify copy_internal
      cp,mv,install: fix comment punctuation
      cp,mv,install: minor copy_internal refactoring
      cp: avoid needless unlinkat after fstatat ELOOP
      cp,mv,install: add copy_internal comment
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      expr: use mcel
      wc: stop worrying about EBCDIC, shift-JIS, etc
      maint: prefer mcel
      maint: use mbszero
      wc: avoid undefined conversion state
      wc: simplify #if MB_LEN_MAX
      maint: prefer char32_t to wchar_t
      sort: not a special case for mbrtowc
      maint: omit some unused function tests
      wc: fix word count bug
      wc: treat encoding errors as non white space
      wc: 3× speedup in C locale
      wc: simplify by removing SUPPORT_OLD_MBRTOWC
      doc: mention Unicode exceptions for wc
      factor,tail: avoid quadratic reallocation
      wc: improve avx2 API
      wc: prefer signed integers
      wc: goto considered harmful
      wc: distribute src/wc.h
      wc: pacify ‘make syntax-check’
      sort: improve --help
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      basenc: tweak checks to use unsigned char
      basenc: fix unlikely locale issue; tune
      maint: prefer c_isxdigit when that is the intent
      digest: omit unnecessary b2sum includes
      maint: move field_sep into separate module
      maint: include ctype.h selectively
      maint: port to oddball tolower
      dircolors: assume C-locale spaces
      stdbuf: port to oddball toupper
      test: allow non-blank white space in numbers
      join,uniq: support multi-byte separators
      maint: copy join, uniq tests from Fedora
      maint: pacify ‘make syntax-check’
      join: fix recently introduced NUL bug
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: port randread to FreeBSD 14
      pinky: fix string size calculation
      maint: DECIMAL_DIGIT_ACCUMULATE uses stdckdint.h
      uniq: prefer signed integers
      uniq: simplify and fix unlikely bug by using bool
      uniq: prefer static init
      uniq: change macro to function
      tests: omit inapplicable test code
      uniq: fix bug with -w in multibyte locales
      split: omit bad_cast
      ls: omit bad_cast
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: pacify clang -Winclude-next-absolute-path
      maint: pacify recent clang better
      split: do not shrink hold buffer
      seq: say why not ‘x += step’
      maint: remove unneeded suggest-attributes pragmas
      maint: document fix for GCC bug 109628
      maint: update GCC version comment
      ls: remove unnecessary pragmas
      nohup: document GCC bug number
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      doc: de-“note” the documentation
      sort: dynamically link -lcrypto if -R
      doc: mention -lcrypto change in NEWS
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      mv: new option --exchange
      doc: clarify mv --exchange
      cp,ln,mv: improve dir vs nondir diagnostics
      mv: treat --exchange more like non-exchange

Petr Malat (1):
      mv: add --swap (-x) option to atomically swap 2 paths

Pádraig Brady (59):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      maint: avoid syntax check failure
      doc: add subsections for cksum nodes
      maint: use C99 int size specifiers rather than PRI.MAX defines
      build: avoid build failures on gcc <= 10, or clang
      doc: rm --help: mention that '.' or '..' are rejected
      basenc: auto pad base32 and base64 inputs when decoding
      tests: move all basenc tests to their own directory
      doc: fix RFC references
      basenc: --base16: support lower case hex digits
      basenc: --base16: also allow lower case with --ignore-garbage
      base32,base64: disallow non-canonical encodings
      maint: fix syntax check issue
      ls: fix recent regression in size alignment
      numfmt: support lowercase 'k' for Kilo and Kibi
      doc: touch: clarify --time description in man page
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: add list/obstack.h to .gitignore
      doc: ls: fix regression in -f description
      maint: remove obsolete AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL
      chgrp: add --from parameter similar to chown
      doc: cp --no-clobber: improve documentation
      maint: avoid false positive warning with newer gcc
      build: update gnulib to latest
      maint: merge chgrp and chown sources
      maint: distribute new header from previous commit
      tests: run locale tests on more systems
      tests: numfmt: fix test related to lower case 'k' SI unit
      sort: fix thousands grouping handling on single byte locales
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      tests: make ulimit -v interact better with ASAN
      doc: split -C: test and document a heap overflow
      od: support half precision floating point
      build: fix od build on clang < 17
      doc: add '[' to the info index
      maint: avoid sc_tight_scope failure in sort.c
      build: fix libcrypto version linked by sort at runtime
      cp,mv: reinstate that -n exits with success if files skipped
      cp,mv: add --update=none-fail to fail if existing files
      build: improve libcrypto library detection
      tests: simplify treatment of the $LOCALE_FR_UTF8 variable
      tests: move join tests to their own directory
      cat,cp,mv,dd,install,split: set the default IO size to 256KiB
      doc: fix spellings in NEWS
      cksum: consistently validate --length attributes
      mv: revert add --swap (-x) option
      cksum: ensure appropriate "binary" mode with --untagged
      timeout: fix race where we might kill arbitrary processes
      timeout: fix narrow race in failing to kill processes
      build: add caching for involved configure checks
      build: provide a cross-compiling default for 16 bit float checks
      doc: fix stale --dereference info for chown/chgrp
      pinky: disable location canonicalization by default
      maint: basenc: consistently check buffer bounds when encoding
      chmod: add support for -h, -H,-L,-P, --dereference options
      chmod: fix TOCTOU security issue with symlink replacement
      doc: pr: give solution to expanding TABs in multicolumn output
      env: add -a,--argv0 to set the first argument passed to exec
      doc: remove older ChangeLog items

Samuel Tardieu (1):
      maint: add attributes to two functions without side effects

Stephen Kitt (1):
      tail: allow multiple PIDs

Sylvestre Ledru (3):
      tests: improve ls --dired testing
      ls: --dired now implies long format with hyperlinks disabled
      tests: ls: add a test to verify that '+' is added

Ville Skyttä (1):
      dircolors: add more archive extensions

dann frazier (1):
      tail: fix tailing sysfs files where PAGE_SIZE > BUFSIZ

lvgenggeng (1):
      mktemp: fix template diagnostic with --suffix


thank you!
Pádraig