I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.15 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 "development" release of findutils. It can be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. This particular release can be downloaded from http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.5.15.tar.gz (and you can also download it via FTP). The 4.5.x release series is intended to allow people to try out, comment on or contribute to new features of findutils. During the 4.5.x release series some features may be introduced and then changed or removed as a result of feedback or experience. In short, please don't rely on backward compatibility later in the release series. While this is a development release, it is tested before being released, principally with the regression test suite (run "make check" to use it). The Savannah website (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils) contains a current list of known bugs in findutils (for both the stable and development branches). 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 <bug-findutils-requ...@gnu.org>. 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 http://savannah.gnu.org/users/jay. Please note that the key being used is not the same as the key that was used to sign previous releases. I'd like to thank the following people for their contributions to this and other recent releases: Bernhard Voelker Eric Blake Eric S. Raymond Benedikt Morbach Jens Schleusener * Major changes in release 4.5.15, 2015-12-18 ** Bug Fixes #45780: inode column is badly aligned when running 'find <dir> -ls' #45585: unclear description of -newerXY in manual page. #45505: give a more explicit error message when the argument to -regex is not a valid regular expression. #45090: oldfind incorrectly omits test/..test (or any file whose name begins with ..). #45065: find incorrectly prints a leading zero on the fractional part of ctime timestamps #45064: Use of [[ ... ]] in /bin/sh script is incorrect #45062: Enabling CACHE_IDS causes segfaults (this bug affects many historic releases, probably since release 3.0 in 1991). You would not have been affected by this problem unless you used the option --enable-id-cache when invoking confgure. #42903: checklists.py now supports Python 3. #40805: The locatedb manual page uses now troff symbols where appropriate. ** Translations Updated the German translation. -- James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> GNU findutils maintainer
