[platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-9.0.193-54bec.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-9.1 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 (5.6 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) = 72e21a193e969d024fc87e451e808722

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To test follow this standard procedure:

    tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
    cd coreutils-9.0.193-54bec/
    ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

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

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Changes in coreutils since v9.0 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Bernhard Voelker (3):
      maint: update tests/init.sh from gnulib
      doc: add NEWS entry for recent cksum change
      maint: remove obsolete statat gnulib module

Bruno Haible (1):
      build: non-recursive Automake in a less hacky way

Christian Hesse (1):
      dircolors: highlight .avif as image

Daniel Knittl-Frank (1):
      scripts: fix typo in commit-msg git-hook script

Jim Meyering (4):
      maint: factor.c: avoid new GCC 12 warning
      maint: commit-msg: compute UTF-8-aware line-length
      maint: split a long line
      maint: syntax-check requires "char const *", not "const char *"

Max Filippov (1):
      all: fix adjustment of /proc/$pid/cmdline by single binary

Paul Eggert (132):
      ls: port to OpenBSD
      maint: switch to C11-style _Noreturn
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      sort: fix unlikely bug when '\377' < 0
      cp: defend better against FreeBSD 9.1 zfs bug
      cp: revert unnecessary FreeBSD workaround
      maint: modernize README-{hacking,prereq}
      maint: prefer attribute.h in .c files
      b2sum: simplify attribute usage
      maint: remove unused __attribute__ defn
      maint: modernize attribute usage
      maint: enable -Wsuggest-attribute=format
      maint: add function attributes to .h files
      maint: use minmax.h instead of rolling our own
      maint: fix nonnull decl
      cp: fix ptrdiff_t/ssize_t theoretical glitches
      cp: minor clarity tweak
      maint: update NEWS for macOS fix
      cp: fix security context race
      maint: prefer MAYBE_UNUSED
      cp: fix --preserve=ownership permissions bug
      cp: streamline cloning by skipping fstat
      cp: clone on macOS
      uname: port to recent macOS
      mv: Bug#52410 fix
      maint: use GNU style for spacing
      id: improve doc for when USER is omitted
      doc: colorize -> color
      ls: improve doc for =WHEN
      build: be more careful about Perl
      build: port to AIX 7.1
      doc: Document , vs . in date --rfc-3339=ns
      date: %-N now means suppress extra digits
      date: new option --resolution
      df: tiny simplification
      cp: tweak internal name
      cp: when copying to dir use dir-relative names
      cp: omit unnecessary stat of destination
      cp: fix two typos in previous change
      doc: fix pluralization typo
      cp: rely on Gnulib for copy_file_range workaround
      build: allow readlinkat calls
      cat: improve style
      cat: prefer signed to unsigned
      shred: fix declaration typo
      dd: improve integer overflow checking
      dd: simplify conv=swab code
      copy: remove unnecessary ‘free’
      maint: simplify memory alignment
      csplit: improve integer overflow checking
      cat: prefer copy_file_range to read+write
      dd: output final progress before syncing
      dd: synchronize output after write errors
      cp: fix comment typo
      mv: when installing to dir use dir-relative names
      expr: lint cleanup, and introducing main_exit
      comm: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
      ...
      dd: do not access uninitialized
      maint: pacify gcc -flto -Wmaybe-uninitialized
      df: fix memory leak
      maint: mark some _Noreturn functions
      chgrp: fix typo in previous change
      tr: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
      maint: suppress bogus noreturn warnings
      id: print groups of listed name
      date: improve doc
      date: test against bug#50115
      doc: improve version-sort doc
      sort: fix several version-sort problems
      tr: improve multibyte etc. doc
      tr: mention multibyte problem in man page
      cp: avoid unnecessary buffer allocation
      dd: support iseek= and oseek=
      dd: improve doc relative to POSIX
      dd: counts ending in "B" now count bytes
      chown: warn about USER.GROUP
      date: fix newly-introduced %%-N bug

Pádraig Brady (48):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      chmod: fix exit status when ignoring symlinks
      tests: cp/sparse-perf: make more robust and add zfs comments
      doc: adjust ls --zero option order in texinfo
      doc: timeout --foreground: add clarification on exit status
      timeout: ensure --foreground -k exits with status 137
      doc: timeout --kill-after: clarify disabled timeouts
      doc: say that printf(1) is preferred over echo(1)
      sort: --debug: add warnings about sign, radix, and grouping chars
      maint: fix recent syntax-check failures
      tests: avoid false failure in env-signal-handler.sh
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      doc: csplit: clarify [OFFSET] syntax
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      doc: NEWS: explain _why_ copy_file_range() is used
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      cksum: use more exact selection of digest algorithms
      maint: cut: avoid exporting recently added variable
      doc: fix somewhat ambiguous date format representation
      doc: ls: improve --help formatting
      doc: ls: reference dircolors(1) from --help
      doc: rmdir: improve --help formatting
      doc: adust --help, --version alignment
      doc: avoid using "[" is URLS in --help output
      chown,chgrp: reinstate numeric id output in -v messages
      dircolors: add --print-ls-colors to display colored entries
      dircolors: consider COLORTERM as well as TERM env vars
      dircolors: speed up processing of TERM entries
      doc: use bold style for man page references
      doc: env: fix man page reference of exec(2) to exec(3p)
      tests: improve compat with macOS
      fmt: fix invalid multi-byte splitting on macOS
      build: ensure AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT is defined
      stat: only automount with --cached=never
      maint: address syntax-check issues in recent commit
      doc: test: clarify that -rwx don't just check perm bits
      maint: move build-related NEWS item to its own section
      printf: support printing the numeric value of multi-byte chars
      tests: improve recent printf test
      maint: sync latest bootstrap from gnulib
      doc: join: clarify that -e only effective for -12jo fields
      ls: avoid expensive capability lookup by default
      doc: describe `dd iseek` as a feature not a change
      factor: improve support on RISCV and loongson
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      doc: remove older ChangeLog items
      doc: install --compare: clarify mode of operation

Rohan Sable (1):
      ls: avoid triggering automounts

Ville Skyttä (1):
      dircolors: colorize backup files with bright black

thank you!
Pádraig