I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.3.0 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/ (but the documentation there does not include material about changes in the 4.3.x releases).
This is a "stable" development of findutils. It can be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. This release includes some significant changes, and so is not yet ready for production use. However, I encourage you to try it out. 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 like to thank Jim Meyering for his help in preparing this release. * Major changes in release 4.3.0 The 4.3.x release series are currently 'development' releases. Please test it, but think carefully before installing it in a production system. New features in findutils-4.3.x are under development; they may change or go away. All other changes in the 4.2.x release series up to and including findutils-4.2.27 are included in this release. In addition the following changes are new in this release: ** Functional Changes By default, find now uses the fts() function to search the file system. The use of fts greatly increases find's ability to search extremely deep directory hierarchites. You can tell that the version of find you are using uses FTS, because the output of "find --version" will include the word "FTS". Currently two binaries for 'find' are built. The configure option --without-fts can be used to select whether 'find' uses fts: With fts Without fts default configuration find oldfind configure --with-fts find oldfind configure --without-fts ftsfind find New tests, -readable, -writable, -executable. These check that a file can be read, written or executed respectively. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
