3 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f0b71a8c8..e0287cca5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   a commmand of the above form would fail for all subdirectories.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0]
 
+  touch -a once again guarantees that a file's change time is
+  adjusted, working around a bug in current Linux kernels.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.2 (2009-12-11) [stable]
 
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index acdfd6b2f..064c2347d 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ John Kodis                          kodis@acm.org
 John Murphy                         jam@philabs.research.philips.com
 John Roll                           john@panic.harvard.edu
 John Salmon                         johns@mullet.anu.edu.au
+John Stanley                        johnstops@verizon.net
 John Summerfield                    summer@OS2.ami.com.au
 Jon Peatfield                       J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk
 Joost van Baal                      joostvb@xs4all.nl
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
-Subproject 5016c2066bfca00f5a24e0d2abaca25f0fce75f
+Subproject 9a669cf64253a2b2149d7f7cc5e0664c1bc7dda