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Article #129coreutils-8.19 released (fixes sort -u data loss bugs)
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:16
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:16
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This is to announce coreutils-8.19, a stable release.
There have been 13 commits by 4 people in the 8 days since 8.18.
This release is primarily to fix two data loss bugs in sort -u.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Bernhard Voelker (1)
Jim Meyering (9)
Krzysztof Goj (1)
Paul Eggert (2)
Special thanks to Rasmus Borup Hansen for reporting the sort -u problem
along with a reproducer, and to Paul Eggert for spotting the second bug
and for his minimal patch that fixed both bugs.
Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
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Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=3Dcoreutils.git;a=3Dshortlog;h=3Dv8.19
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.18..v8.19
To summarize the 9 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From=20a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.19
git submodule summary v8.18
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.19.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.19.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.19.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.19.tar.xz.sig
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify coreutils-8.19.tar.xz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69.19-1bb10
Automake 1.12a
Gnulib v0.0-7581-gbc33a8a
Bison 2.6.2.837-8dfc
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.19 (2012-08-20) [stable]
** Bug fixes
df now fails when the list of mounted file systems (/etc/mtab) cannot
be read, yet the file system type information is needed to process
certain options like -a, -l, -t and -x.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
sort -u could fail to output one or more result lines.
For example, this command would fail to print "1":
(yes 7 | head -11; echo 1) | sort --p=3D1 -S32b -u
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
sort -u could read freed memory.
For example, this evokes a read from freed memory:
perl -le 'print "a\n"."0"x900'|valgrind sort --p=3D1 -S32b -u > /dev/null
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
** New features
rm now accepts the --dir (-d) option which makes it remove empty director=
ies.
This improves compatibility with Mac OS X and BSD systems which also honor
the -d option.
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also posted as: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3D7342
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