I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.27 of GNU findutils. 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". More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.
This is a "stable" release of findutils. It can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils. The ftp.gnu.org site is very busy, so you may find it more convenient to download findutils from one of the mirror sites listed at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. This release includes bugfixes and documentation improvements. There are no functional changes in this release. All the changes since the previous stable release are summarised below. 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. See also the "Downloading" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. I would like to thank Aaron Hawley, Benno Schulenberg, Primoz Peterlin, Lenny Foner and the GNU Translation Project for their help in preparing this release. They have done a great deal of work to improve the findutils documentation and to make findutils accessible in languages other than English. I would also like to thank Andreas Metzler, Fr�d�ric Jolliton, Michael Diamond, Eric Blake and the members of the bug-findutils mailing list for their help in diagnosing and fixing problems and bugs. * Major changes in release 4.2.27 ** Warnings of Future Changes The test -perm /000 currently matches no files, but for greater consistency with -perm -000, this will be changed to match all files; this change will probably be made in early 2006. Meanwhile, a warning message is given if you do this. ** Bug Fixes If xargs is invoked with many short arguments on PPC systems running the Linux kernel, we no longer get an "argument list too long" error from the operating system. Fixed a bug in the test suite which caused it to spuriously fail on systems where ARG_MAX is different to the value used by the Linux kernel on 32-bit x86-architecture systems. On systems running the Linux kernel (for example GNU/Linux), "find -printf %F" no longer produces the wrong answer for files on filesystems that have been remounted elsewhere using "mount --bind". (Savannah bug #14921). ** Documentation Changes Following some extensive and detailed review comments from Aaron Hawley, the material in the manual pages and the Texinfo manual are now synchronised. The %M format specifier of "find -printf" is now documented, although it has existed since release 4.2.5. The 'find' manual page now correctly documents the fact that -regex defaults to using Emacs-style regular expressions (though this can be changed). -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
