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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2006-11-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention the three noteworthy changes, all fixed via gnulib. + 2006-11-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * tests/rm/one-file-system: Upon setup failure (e.g., mount failure), @@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release 6.6-pre (????-??-??) +** Bug fixes + + ls would segfault (dereference a NULL pointer) for a file with a + nameless group or owner. This bug was introduced in coreutils-6.5. + + A bug in the latest official m4/gettext.m4 (from gettext-0.15) + made configure fail to detect gettext support, due to the unusual + way in which coreutils uses AM_GNU_GETTEXT. + +** Improved robustness + + Now, du (and the other fts clients: chmod, chgrp, chown) honor a + trailing slash in the name of a symlink-to-directory even on + Solaris 9, by working around its buggy fstatat implementation. + * Major changes in release 6.5 (2006-11-19) [stable] |