I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.16 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-4.5.16.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 4.5.16, 2015-12-23 The principal change in this release is an update to the version of gnulib that we use. ** Functional Changes to find Using -regextype egrep now has the same effect as -regextype posix-egrep. This is the result of a change to gnulib to bring it into line with GNU grep (see http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20974#22). ** Translations Updated translations: Estonian, Swedish, Polish, Vietnamese, Ukranian, Norwegian Bokmaal, Czech, Russian, French, Hungarian. ** Bug Fixes: #46715: testsuite error with perl 5.22, gnulib outdated #40146: gnulib revision doesn't support musl libc -- James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> GNU findutils maintainer
