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* Noteworthy changes in release 8.21 (2013-02-14) [stable]
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numfmt: reformat numbers
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df now accepts the --output[=FIELD_LIST] option to define the list of columns
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to include in the output, or all available columns if the FIELD_LIST is
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omitted. Note this enables df to output both block and inode fields together.
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du now accepts the --threshold=SIZE option to restrict the output to entries
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with such a minimum SIZE (or a maximum SIZE if it is negative).
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du recognizes -t SIZE as equivalent, for compatibility with FreeBSD.
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cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer exits non-zero.
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[bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
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cut with a range like "N-" no longer allocates N/8 bytes. That buffer
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would never be used, and allocation failure could cause cut to fail.
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[bug introduced in coreutils-8.10]
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cut no longer accepts the invalid range 0-, which made it print empty lines.
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Instead, cut now fails and emits an appropriate diagnostic.
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[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
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cut now handles overlapping to-EOL ranges properly. Before, it would
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interpret "-b2-,3-" like "-b3-". Now it's treated like "-b2-".
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[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
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cut no longer prints extraneous delimiters when a to-EOL range subsumes
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another range. Before, "echo 123|cut --output-delim=: -b2-,3" would print
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"2:3". Now it prints "23". [bug introduced in 5.3.0]
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cut -f no longer inspects input line N+1 before fully outputting line N,
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which avoids delayed output for intermittent input.
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[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_8b]
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factor no longer loops infinitely on 32 bit powerpc or sparc systems.
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[bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
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install -m M SOURCE DEST no longer has a race condition where DEST's
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permissions are temporarily derived from SOURCE instead of from M.
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pr -n no longer crashes when passed values >= 32. Also, line numbers are
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consistently padded with spaces, rather than with zeros for certain widths.
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[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_22i]
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seq -w ensures that for numbers input in scientific notation,
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the output numbers are properly aligned and of the correct width.
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[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
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seq -w ensures correct alignment when the step value includes a precision
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while the start value does not, and the number sequence narrows.
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[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
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seq -s no longer prints an erroneous newline after the first number, and
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outputs a newline after the last number rather than a trailing separator.
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Also seq no longer ignores a specified step value when the end value is 1.
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[bugs introduced in coreutils-8.20]
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timeout now ensures that blocking of ALRM signals is not inherited from
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its parent, which would cause timeouts to be ignored.
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[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
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** Changes in behavior
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df --total now prints '-' into the target column (mount point) of the
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summary line, accommodating the --output option where the target field
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can be in any column. If there is no source column, then df prints
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'total' in the target column.
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df now properly outputs file system information with bind mounts present on
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the system by skipping duplicate entries (identified by the device number).
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Consequently, df also elides the early-boot pseudo file system type "rootfs".
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nl no longer supports the --page-increment option, which has been
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deprecated since coreutils-7.5. Use --line-increment instead.
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readlink now supports multiple arguments, and a complementary
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-z, --zero option to delimit output items with the NUL character.
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stat and tail now know about CEPH. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file
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system type, and tail -f uses polling for files on CEPH file systems.
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stty now supports configuring DTR/DSR hardware flow control where available.
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Perl is now more of a prerequisite. It has long been required in order
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to run (not skip) a significant percentage of the tests. Now, it is
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also required in order to generate proper man pages, via help2man. The
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generated man/*.1 man pages are no longer distributed. Building without
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perl, you would create stub man pages. Thus, while perl is not an
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official prerequisite (build and "make check" will still succeed), any
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resulting man pages would be inferior. In addition, this fixes a bug
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in distributed (not from clone) Makefile.in that could cause parallel
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build failure when building from modified sources, as is common practice
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for a patched distribution package.
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factor now builds on x86_64 with x32 ABI, 32 bit MIPS, and all HPPA systems,
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by avoiding incompatible asm. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
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A root-only test predicate would always fail. Its job was to determine
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whether our dummy user, $NON_ROOT_USERNAME, was able to run binaries from
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the build directory. As a result, all dependent tests were always skipped.
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Now, those tests may be run once again. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
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