new snapshot available: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.32 in the coming week
so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
would be most welcome.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.3 MB) 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) = 7f5c08399157f45af9838cd6f2724643

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c/
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

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Changes in coreutils since v8.31 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:


Akim Demaille (1):
      maint: fix issues in syntax-check

Andreas Dilger (1):
      stat: don't explicitly request file size for filenames

Assaf Gordon (6):
      tests: avoid false-positive in date-debug test
      doc: add "version sort ordering" chapter
      seq: fix superfluous output line
      gnulib: update to latest
      date: mention military timezone changes from gnulib
      scripts: document how to build older versions on newer systems

Bernhard Voelker (6):
      maint: sync extra files from gnulib
      gnulib: update to the latest
      doc: improve new version sort chapter
      maint: fix error in syntax-check checking
      maint: add lib/argmatch.h to po/POTFILES.in
      doc: add example to demonstrate sub-second sleep times

Bruno Haible (1):
      build: adjust for recent gnulib pthread changes

Chris Meyering (1):
      build: rearrange yes(1) code to prevent GCC 10 warning

Colin Watson (1):
      ls: issue error message on removed directory

Emil Engler (1):
      maint: add lib/iconv_open-zos.h to .gitignore

Jeff Layton (3):
      stat: Use statx where available and support --cached
      stat: fix enabling of statx logic
      ls: use statx instead of stat when available

Jim Meyering (1):
      build: suppress new FP warning from gcc-10.0.1

Kamil Dudka (4):
      doc: improve wording of the --kibibytes option description
      md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: --help: add note about binary/text mode
      chcon: do not validate security context if SELinux is disabled
      tests: ensure tests/cp/preserve-gid.sh works with single binary

Kevin Locke (1):
      doc: clarify dd sparse detection is by *output* block

Martin Castillo (2):
      maint: tee: use STDIN_FILENO rather than 0
      doc: fix typo in sort set operations example

Mike Swanson (1):
      dircolors: recognize the WebP image format

Paul Eggert (31):
      ln: port to platforms lacking O_DIRECTORY
      ln: port to symlink ("x", ".") failing with EINVAL
      doc: add NEWS item for Solaris symlink fix
      dd: improve doc of stderr output
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: adjust to recent verify_true removal
      basenc: port to C99
      cp: port fiemap.h to C99
      b2sum: port to HP-UX C
      stdbuf: port configure-time checking to HP-UX aCC
      b2sum: port to HP-UX aCC
      b2sum: sync better with upstream
      b2sum: port blake2b-ref.c to HP-UX aCC
      cp: fix /dev/stdin problem on Solaris
      maint: fix version number in NEWS
      dd: be more careful about signal handling
      doc: mention ls -l user/group justification
      od: use fseek on non-regular files
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      cp: simplify integer overflow checking
      nl: fix integer-overflow bug
      numfmt: avoid unlikely integer overflow
      truncate: avoid integer-overflow assumptions
      shuf: fix bug with ‘-r -n 0’
      build: re-enable type-limits checking
      build: don’t worry about logical-op checking
      shuf: improve randperm overflow checking
      stdbuf: improve size checking
      all: improve parsing of numeric arguments
      shred: modernize documentation
      doc: remove colon from node name

Pádraig Brady (28):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      doc: add a NEWS entry for the ln O_DIRECTORY fix
      maint: fix syntax check failure
      split: fix failure for certain number of specified files
      doc: fix description of tail -f on truncated files
      doc: clarify that truncate creates sparse files
      maint: use consistent header ordering and spacing in NEWS
      seq: use faster processing for integer steps from 2 to 200
      maint: fix syntax-check failure from recent adjustment
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      maint: adjust to split out xstrtol-error gnulib module
      build: auto enable use of openssl with >= version 3
      ls: support --time=creation to show/sort birth time
      build: avoid including sysctl.h on glibc
      build: avoid vector performance warnings in randperm
      rmdir: fix --ignore-fail-on-non-empty with permissions errors
      tests: avoid false failure due to varying /proc/kallsyms
      build: update to latest gnulib
      maint: avoid syntax-check failure in previous commit
      tests: fix test for symlink
      doc: clarify that '%a' stat format outputs mode bits
      uniq: avoid strcoll() to improve performance and consistency
      stat,tail: sync file system constants from the linux kernel
      factor: sync longlong.h adjustments from upstream
      b2sum: sync better with upstream
      build: update to latest gnulib
      doc: remove older ChangeLog items
      maint: ensure .deps/ in the project root is ignored by git

Shugo Maeda (1):
      factor: output immediately if stdout is a tty but stdin is not

thank you!
Pádraig