new snapshot available: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-9.4 in the coming week
so any testing you can do on various different systems
between now and then would be most welcome.
This is a stabilization release coming about 18 weeks after the 9.3 release.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.7 MiB) from:
     https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
     https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
     MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = c56f1e62205fa34f6258fdf6cc6bdc1b

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To test follow this standard procedure:

     tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
     cd coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab/
     ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
Please report/attach any issues to coreutils@gnu.org

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This snapshot was bootstrapped with:

     Autoconf 2.72c.32-cb6fb
     Automake 1.16.5
     Gnulib v0.1-6650-gc5a5f46e54
     Bison 3.8.2

Changes in coreutils since v9.3 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Andreas Schwab (1):
      tests: avoid failure when cp fails for proc files

Bernhard Voelker (3):
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      doc: reference install(1) and cp(1) from each other
      maint: fix typo in NEWS

Bruno Haible (8):
      build: ensure that makeinfo ≥ 6.8 checks the @menu structure
      uptime: output correct user count on OpenBSD
      maint: Simplify after gnulib changed
      pinky,users,who: optimize read_utmp invocation
      build: fix link errors with gcc < 4.8
      build: fix recent compilation error on GNU/Hurd
      uptime: Include VM sleep time in the "up" duration
      uptime: simplify following gnulib changes

Dragan Simic (3):
      maint: reformat text width in HACKING
      cut: promptly diagnose write errors, continued
      maint: minor comment cleanups

Jaroslav Skarvada (1):
      build: fix build with -mno-ssse3

Jim Meyering (1):
      cksum: improve problematic_chars function

Paul Eggert (56):
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      csplit: pacify GCC 13
      chmod: pacify GCC 13
      maint: suppress GCC 13 false alarms
      maint: simplify --enable-gcc-warnings='expensive'
      cp: -p --parents: minor cleanup of previous patch
      doc: new subsection for date format specs
      doc: time zone conversion example
      dd: fix ‘error’ name issue without macros
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      wc: port to kernels that disable XSAVE YMM
      cksum: fix bug in check for cksum_pclmul
      cksum,wc: don’t include <cpuid.h>
      cksum,wc: clean up hw capability checking
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      doc: mention fix for bug#64123
      maint: update GCC bug number in comment
      maint: prefer C23-style nullptr
      maint: fix indenting in previous change
      maint: improve static and dynamic checking
      maint: go back to using ‘error’
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: stop pacifying Parfait
      maint: pacify GCC bug#109613 better
      df: omit GCC 5 ‘assume’s
      who: don’t crash if clock gyrates
      maint: prefer ckd_add to INT_ADD_WRAPV etc
      maint: sync bootstrap from Gnulib
      stty: fix untranslated diagnostics
      maint: update .gitignore
      mv: better diagnostic for 'mv dir x' failure
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      who: fix only-theoretical overflow
      maint: include idx.h everywhere
      factor: prefer signed types
      join: prefer signed types
      cksum,df,digest: prefer signed types
      od: prefer signed types
      dircolors,du,expr: prefer signed types
      groups,id: don’t assume gid_t fits in unsigned long
      kill: prefer signed types
      mktemp,seq: prefer signed types
      numfmt: prefer signed types
      pathchk: prefer signed types
      pinky: prefer signed types
      pinky: fix "d" typo
      uptime: fix Y5881633 bug
      maint: Update after gnulib module 'readutmp' changed
      pinky,who: omit pragma
      who: simplify based on readutmp changes
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      doc: improve NEWS discussion of systemd
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      uptime: be more generous about read_utmp failure
      maint: update uptime NEWS

Pádraig Brady (71):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      install: support stripping files with a leading hyphen
      cksum: fix failure to diagnose read errors with crc32
      tsort: diagnose errors reading the input
      numfmt: diagnose errors reading the input
      factor: diagnose errors reading the input
      tests: ensure all utilities that read input diagnose errors
      copy: reduce verbosity of -i and -u with --verbose
      pr: fix infinite loop when double spacing
      uniq: be more specific when diagnosing read errors
      tests: more cases for read input diagnostics
      maint: remove redundant exit status handling
      doc: provide more info on the default 32-bit cksum digest
      tests: provide more info on DEBUG=yes
      cp: -p --parents: fix failure to preserve permissions for absolute paths
      pr: fix parsing of empty arguments
      doc: adjust build instructions for disabling year 2038 support
      split: advise the kernel of sequential access pattern
      maint: cleanups to NEWS
      build: gnulib: avoid false -Wstringop-overflow warning
      build: avoid false -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings
      build: revert -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings avoidance
      build: pacify GCC 13 with -flto
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: modernize bootstrap prerequsite tools
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: augment syntax checks to cater for more "error" functions
      maint: adjust code to handle "error" syntax-check changes
      split: --additional-suffix: disallow trailing '/'
      maint: use consistent make variable interpolation syntax
      doc: NEWS: mention the more defensive copy_file_range avoidance
      maint: avoid syntax-check failure
      doc: reference COPYING from README
      ls: use more standard symlink traversal
      ls: display command line symlinks that return ELOOP
      maint: ls.c: update stale comment for previous commit
      doc: od --strings: clarify operation
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      dd: fix parsing of numbers with more than two multipliers
      doc: mention cksum error fix with cpu feature checks changes
      b2sum: fix UAR with --check with malformed checksum lines
      maint: avoid static analysis failure for ignored dup2 return
      cksum: support transparent emulation of older utils
      cksum: escape filenames with a leading '\' in --check status
      maint: give a new function the "pure" attribute
      tests: ensure utilties exit promptly upon write error
      all: avoid repeated diagnostic upon write error
      od: promptly diagnose write errors
      uniq: promptly diagnose write errors
      cut: promptly diagnose write errors
      comm: promptly diagnose write errors
      join: promptly diagnose write errors
      maint: add syntax check to ensure safe mkstemp usage
      tac: fall back to /tmp if $TMPDIR is unavailable
      split: honor $TMPDIR for temp files
      tests: split: provide more isolated /tmp handling
      maint: add a syntax check to prevent use of NULL
      doc: clarify tail -n/-c +NUM operation
      tac: handle short reads on input
      od: fix issues with recent format string changes
      pinky: fix buffer size on 32 bit builds
      doc: separate out description of 2038 time stamp change
      maint: allow use of printf C99 integer size specifiers
      maint: avoid syntax-check failure
      tests: fix false failure due to locale on alpine
      maint: remove extraneous line in NEWS
      maint: comment spelling fix
      cp: with --sparse=never, avoid COW and copy offload
      doc: cksum: remove -b description from texinfo
      doc: reorg texinfo for the checksumming utilities
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest

Sylvestre Ledru (2):
      tests: move tests to a directory per utility
      tests: mktemp -t: $TMPDIR has higher priority than -p

Ville Skyttä (1):
      dircolors: update list of backup file extensions


thank you!
Pádraig