I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.21 of GNU findutils. This is a bugfix release; the list of bugs fixes appears below.
GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". This is an "unstable" release of findutils. It includes a range of changes, including both bugfixes and small functional changes. It can be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils. The current stable release of findutils is still 4.2.20, which is available from ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors. More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. Bugs in GNU findutils should be reported to the findutils bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils. Reporting bugs via the web interface will ensure that you are automatically informed when the bug has been fixed. General discussion of findutils takes place on the bug-findutils mailing list. To join the 'bug-findutils' mailing list, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public key of the findutils maintainer, James Youngman. You can download this from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg. Alternatively, you could query a PGP keyserver, but you will need to use one that can cope with subkeys containing photos. Many older key servers cannot do this. I use subkeys.pgp.net. I think that one works. See also the "Downloading" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. I would particularly like to thank Dmitry V. Levin, Paul Eggert and Bas van Gompel for their help in preparing this release. * Major changes in release 4.2.21 ** Functional Changes to find The GNU extension "find ... -perm +MODE" has been withdrawn because it is incompatible with POSIX in obscure cases like "find ... -perm ++r". Use the new syntax "find ... -perm /MODE" instead. Old usages will still continue to work, so long as they don't conflict with POSIX. If the output is going to a terminal, the -print, -fprint, -printf and -fprintf actions now quote "unusual" characters to prevent unwanted effects on the terminal. See "Unusual Characters in File Names" for further details. There is no change to the behaviour when the output is not going to a terminal. The locate program does the same thing, unless the -0 option is in effect (in which case the filenames are printed as-is). ** Functional Changes to locate The locate command will now read each locate database at most once. This means that if you are using multiple databases and are searching for more than one name, the results will now be printed in a different order (and if you specified a small limit with --limit, you may get a different set of results). A new option '--print' for locate causes it to print the matching results even if the '--count' or '--statistics' option is in effect. ** Bug Fixes find /blah/blah/blah -depth -empty now works once again. The -regex and -iregex tests of find now correctly accept POSIX Basic Regular Expressions. (Savannah bug #12999) The updatedb program now works on systems where "su" does not support the "-s" option, for example Solaris. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
