Announcing the release of GNU findutils 4.4.1

[James Youngman]

I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.4.1 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/findutils-4.4.1.tar.gz.  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.

If you would like instead to follow the latest changes to findutils, you
can try out the development release series, 4.5.x, which is available
at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/.

This version of findutils is distributed under version 3 (or later) of
the GNU GPL.  The documentation is distributed under version 1.2 (or
later) of the GNU Free Documentation License.

All the changes since the previous stable release (4.4.0) are
summarised below.

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* Major changes in release 4.4.1, 2009-04-21

** Bug Fixes

On some systems without support for a boolean type (for example some
versions of the AIX C compiler), find's regular expression
implementation fails to support case-insensitive regular expression
matching, causing -iregex to behave like -regex.  This is now fixed.

#25764: remove duplicate entry for 'proc' in updatedb's $PRUNEFS.

#25154: Allow compilation with C compilers that don't allow
declarations to follow statements.

#25144: Misleading error message when argument to find -user is an
unknown user or is missing.

#24283: -printf %TY causes NULL pointer dereference on Solaris.

#24169: find would segfault if the -newerXY test was not followed by
any argument.

#23996: integer overflow on some platforms when parsing "-used 3".

#23663: crash in some locales for -printf %AX (this problem seems to
have affected only the CVS code for 4.5.x, and not any public
releases, but it was a problem with the original fix for bug #22662)

#22662: find -printf %AX appends nanoseconds in the right place now.

** Functional Enhancements to find

If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, the system's
definition of "yes" and "no" responses are used to interpret the
response to questions from -ok and -okdir.  The default is still to
use information from the findutils message translations.

** Documentation Enhancements

Both the Texinfo manual and the find manual page now include a more
precise description of how your locale configuration affects the
interpretation of regular expressions and how your response to prompts
from the -ok action are interpreted.

Added a worked example describing how to find the shallowest instances
of a given directory name (or names) in a directory hierarchy.

The file README-CVS has been renamed to README-hacking and improved.

** Translations

Updated translations: Catalan, French, German, Indonesian, Irish,
Dutch, Polish, Slovenian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified),
Lithuanian.

--
James Youngman <address@hidden>
GNU findutils maintainer