[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.97-1

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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A new release of coreutils, 5.97-1, is available, replacing 5.94-1 as the
current version, and replacing any experimental use of 5.96-1.

NEWS:
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This is a new upstream release of coreutils.  It depends on features that
were only added in cygwin-1.5.20-1.  Upstream changes from 5.94 are
summarized below; see also /usr/share/doc/coreutils-5.97/NEWS.

Cygwin-specific changes in this release, as compared to 5.94-1, include
the following:
+ Optimize ls -i to use d_ino and avoid stat when possible.
+ Fix dd regression from 5.3.0 on text mounts - when iflag=O_TEXT is not
specified, default to binary mode.
+ Use new freopen(NULL) semantics in many apps.
+ Treat 8-bit characters as printable when quoting a filename in an
interactive or error message, such as for rm -i or cp -v.

If you intend to build this package from source yourself, you will need to
manually install autoconf 2.60 from an upstream tarball, or wait until the
cygwin package of autoconf has been upgraded.

DESCRIPTION:
============
GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential
to a standard POSIX environment.  It comprises the former textutils,
sh-utils, and fileutils packages.  The following executables are included:

[ 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
gkill groups head hostid hostname id install join 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 users vdir wc who whoami yes

UPDATE:
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your system.
Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for 'coreutils' in
the 'Base' category (it should already be selected).

DOWNLOAD:
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http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
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If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
the appropriate place.

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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer

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* Major changes in release 5.97 (2006-06-24) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  rebuild with better autoconf test for when the lstat replacement
  function is needed -- required for Solaris 9

  cat with any of the options, -A -v -e -E -T, when applied to a
  file in /proc or /sys (linux-specific), would truncate its output,
  usually printing nothing.

** Improved robustness

  dircolors: a new autoconf run-test for AIX's buggy strndup function
  prevents malfunction on that system;  may also affect cut, expand,
  and unexpand.

** New features

  chgrp now supports --preserve-root, --no-preserve-root (default),
  as it was documented to do, and just as chmod, chown, and rm do.


* Major changes in release 5.96 (2006-05-22) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  cp -p would fail in a /proc-less chroot, on some systems

  date: a command like date -d '2006-04-23 21 days ago' would print
  the wrong date in some time zones.  (see the test for an example)


* Major changes in release 5.95 (2006-05-12) [stable]

** Improved robustness

  df: if the file system claims to have more available than total blocks,
  report the number of used blocks as being "total - available"
  (a negative number) rather than as garbage.

  pwd and other programs using lib/getcwd.c work even on file systems
  where dirent.d_ino values are inconsistent with those from stat.st_ino.

** Bug fixes

  mv: moving a symlink into the place of an existing non-directory is
  now done atomically;  before, mv would first unlink the destination.

  mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails unconditionally

  rm -r's cycle detection code can no longer be tricked into reporting
  a false positive (introduced in fileutils-4.1.9).

  shred --remove FILE no longer segfaults on Gentoo systems

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