Re: coreutils-6.11 released

[Bruce Korb]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Coreutils version 6.11 has been released.  This is a stable release.
> 
> Since 6.10, there have been 200 change sets in coreutils proper and almost
> 300 in gnulib (most of the files in coreutils/{lib,m4} come from gnulib).

> *****************
> NEWS (since coreutils-6.10)
> *****************
> 
> * Noteworthy changes in release 6.11 (2008-04-19) [stable]
> 

> ** New features
> 
>   join now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order.  This check can
>   be turned off with the --nocheck-order option.
> 
>   sort accepts the new option --sort=WORD, where WORD can be one of
>   general-numeric, month, numeric or random.  These are equivalent to the
>   options --general-numeric-sort/-g, --month-sort/-M, --numeric-sort/-n
>   and --random-sort/-R, resp.

--sort=version ???  What happened?