Findutils 4.2.18 is released

[James Youngman]

I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.18 of GNU
findutils.  This is a bugfix release; the list of bugs fixed appears
below.

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".

This is a "stable" release of findutils.  It can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils.  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.

The previous stable release of findutils was version 4.2.15 (versions
4.2.16 and 4.2.17 were available only on alpha.gnu.org).  More
information about findutils is available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.

Version 4.2.18 of findutils was previously available from
alpha.gnu.org.  This release is the identical file; the only
difference is that it is now available on ftp.gnu.org.

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* Major changes in release 4.2.18
** Bug Fixes
*** "find -depth" was missing out non-leaf directories when they contain 
    non-directories.  This affected findutils releases 4.2.15,
    4.2.16 and 4.2.17, but the bug is now fixed.
*** Find no longer hangs on systems which are clients of unresponsive 
    NFS servers.
**  Documentation improvements
*** Improvements and corrections to the find.1 manpage, including
    corrections to the descriptions of -H and -L.

* Major changes in release 4.2.17
** Bug Fixes
*** bug #11861  undefined symbol "basename" on IRIX 5.3 
*** bug #11865  xargs -i regression  (as compared to findutils-4.2.12)
*** bug #11866  Typo in pred_okdir renders it useless (affecting 4.2.16 only)
*** patch #3723 fix recent process_top_path change (for -execdir on /)
*** Fixing bug #11866 and applying patch #3723 made -execdir work much better.
*** find bar/baz/ugh now works again if baz is a symbolic link (broken 
    in 4.2.15).

* Major changes in release 4.2.16
**  Functionality Changes
*** Updated the message catalogues for the translated messages.
*** The subfs filesystem is now treated the same as the autofs
    filesystem is.
*** New translations:  Belarusian, Catalan, Greek, Esperanto,
    Finnish, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Japanese, Luganda,
    Malay, Romanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Chinese (simplified).
**  Bug Fixes
*** The -execdir action now works correctly for files named on the 
    command line.

I would like to thank Dmitry V. Levin, Bas van Gompel, Peter
Breitenlohner, Jim Meyering, Karl Berry and Andreas Metzler for their
recent help.

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