new snapshot available: coreutils-8.24.150-4ab87

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.25 in about a week, so any testing
you can do on various different systems between now and then
would be most welcome.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.4 MB) from:
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-8.24.150-4ab87.tar.xz) = 7e509d9e7ed21c754d2ea28f026206ca

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf $downloaded_file
  cd coreutils-8.24.150-4ab87
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

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Changes in coreutils since v8.24 are summarized at
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Assaf Gordon (4):
      cut: refactor into set-fields module
      numfmt: use new set-fields module to parse --field
      csplit: check and report fwrite errors with errno
      numfmt: add the -z,--zero-terminated option

Bernhard Voelker (11):
      maint: add syntax check to ensure larger man/*.x files have a Copyright
      tests: avoid FP of ls/stat-free-color.sh with newer glibc
      du: avoid to stat all mount points if possible
      maint: use adaptive approach for `ulimit -v` based tests
      maint: avoid duplicate test runs
      doc: reference each other in the man pages of head and tail
      doc: avoid confusing K argument in the man pages of head and tail
      doc: clarify behaviour of mv for existing target directories
      build: rely on umask for setting permissions in tarball
      maint: fix sc_long_lines to warn about 100+ maximum line length again
      tests: fix races wrt output files of background processes

Dario Giovannetti (1):
      dircolors: add xterm-termite entry

Dave Chiluk (1):
      df: prioritize mounts nearer the device root

Dmitry Monakhov (1):
      copy: fix copying of extents beyond the apparent file size

Eric Blake (1):
      sort: promote '--debug'

Jim Meyering (3):
      maint: avoid uniq.c warning from bleeding-edge gcc's -Wstrict-overflow
      maint: remove unmaintained file, c99-to-c89.diff
      scripts: update versions of gettext and libtool

Luther Thompson (1):
      md5sum,sha*sum: add --ignore-missing for checking a subset of files

Paul Eggert (13):
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: fprintftime/nstrftime API changes
      ls: allow -w18446744073709551616
      shred: don’t document -NUMBER option
      build: Pacify GCC 5 on 32-bit hosts
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      tee: simplify argv handling
      doc: remove obsolete performance comment
      build: port to Studio C on Solaris 12
      doc: promote 'sort --debug'
      dd: summarize in --human-readable format too
      dd: append spaces to shorter status=progress line
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest

Peter Bray (2):
      sync: fix build with separate $(LIB_FDATASYNC)
      tests: avoid test warning with perl >= 5.22

Pádraig Brady (111):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      shred: fix pattern selection for certain iteration counts
      dircolors: add tmux entries
      doc: improve man page for realpath -m
      doc: discourage use of uname -i and -p options
      doc: clarify where ambiguous if short options take no param
      doc: clarify in --help/man where short options take no param
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      base32: A new program similar to base64
      base64: use stricter validation on wrap column
      base64: no longer support hex or oct --wrap params
      ls,ptx: restrict quotearg use to file name output
      tests: test numfmt stdin behavior
      maint: avoid "definitely lost" valgrind warnings
      maint: fix heap manipulations in previous commit
      sort,numfmt: with --debug, diagnose failure to set locale
      maint: avoid deprecation warning with <selinux/flask.h>
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: avoid -Wstrict-overflow warnings with GCC 5.1 on 32 bit
      tail: handle kernel dentry unlink race
      csplit: remove erroneous mention of -m in --help
      tests: adjust recent changes to virtual memory limits
      tests: make a long running test responsive to Ctrl-C
      tests: avoid false failure when restorecon is ineffective
      tail: no longer warn about unrecognized file systems
      tests: avoid false failures with default ACLs
      tests: avoid false failure in a tail test under load
      tests: avoid false failure in rm/r-root.sh under load
      tests: avoid false failure in rm/r-root.sh with gdb warnings
      dircolors: support globbing of TERM entries
      doc: reference shuf(1) from the sort (-R) man page
      factor: remove unreachable SQUFOF code at compile time
      tests: avoid failure when auto selecting factor tests
      maint: fixes to support improved sc_tight_scope
      tests: adjust recent change to csplit VM limit
      ls: detect terminal color support using glob patterns
      ls: allow -w0 to mean no limit on line length
      ls: fix off by one error when determining max display columns
      md5sum: quote all printed file names
      all: quote string arguments in error messages
      copy,dd: simplify and optimize NUL bytes detection
      doc: reference related commands from users(1) and groups(1)
      date: use extended format timezone for --iso-8601
      doc: clarify iso-8601 formats used by ls and du
      maint: allow 'all:' tag in commit summaries
      doc: fix texinfo for short options taking a parameter
      all: replace most uses of quotearg_colon() with quote()
      md5sum: ensure a single status line per file
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      all: avoid quoting file names when possible
      test: use consistent quoting
      ls: document and test new shell-escape quoting
      ls: avoid redundant processing when already escaping
      printf: support the %q format to quote for shell
      ls: default to --quoting=shell-escape for output to terminal
      paste: avoid confusing backslash quoting in diagnostic
      maint: add a syntax check to avoid unstyled quoting
      tests: fix dirent d_type support verification
      tests: cleanup trapping of signal names
      maint: use standard spacing in shebang line in tests
      tests: ensure programs are built before testing
      stat: improve support for new Linux pseudo FS and ACFS
      build: fix VPATH build with --disable-dependency-tracking
      tests: avoid false failure on older NFS implementations
      doc: give a tee example for combining process substitution outputs
      maint: allow 'sha*sum:' tag in commit summaries
      md5sum,sha*sum: ensure --ignore-missing fails when no file verified
      doc: provide an example for prefixing all tail output lines
      doc: clarify descriptions for tr --squeeze-repeats
      build: avoid makeinfo unless required
      tests: for compare_(), use cmp -s where available
      doc: update to latest help2man
      build: support reproducible builds with consistent man pages
      doc: improve the description of sort --random-sort
      maint: remove form feed characters from sources
      maint: fix incorrect spellings etc
      tests: add tests for the kill command
      kill: add undocumented -L for compatibility
      stat: report file system type for "overlayfs"
      sort: fix --debug marking for -b -k1.x
      tests: improve kill tests
      maint: include 'env' commands in returns_ syntax check
      maint: ensure emit_mandatory_arg_note() used if needed
      build: ensure all files are writable in the tarball
      tests: avoid intermittent ulimit -v failures
      tests: avoid root test false failure without libxattr
      doc: describe test operator precedence and associativity
      build: update to latest gnulib
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      maint: avoid a sc_long_lines failure in recent commit
      install: fix relative copies to absolute directory with -D
      install: only attempt to create a target dir once
      doc: mention in more places that -D will create --target-directory
      doc: avoid unwanted display of the 'coreutils' command info
      stty: support -I, --immediate to not wait for pending transmission
      stty: support [-]drain setting to control waiting for pending Tx
      stty: support "flusho" local setting
      join,sort,uniq: with -z, treat '\n' as a field separator
      cut: add the -z,--zero-terminated option
      tac: support an empty (NUL) --separator
      comm: add the -z,--zero-terminated option
      comm: support NUL --output-delimiter for consistency
      paste: add the -z,--zero-terminated option
      wc: avoid ambiguous output with '\n' in file names
      tests: include part of wc-files0.sh skipped by mistake
      mv: fix data loss with repeated source dir and same destination
      doc: mention the '0#' printf flags with stat %a
      doc: suggest dd "sync" flag to maximize "nocache" effectiveness
      maint: fix old spelling mistakes in NEWS
      maint: remove temporary doc/constants.texi-t during build

Richard Russon (1):
      head,tail: add the -z,--zero-terminated option

thanks!
Pádraig.