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@@ -1,6 +1,25 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- -* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +* Noteworthy changes in release 7.4 (2009-05-07) [stable] + +** Bug fixes + + date -d 'next mon', when run on a Monday, now prints the date + 7 days in the future rather than the current day. Same for any other + day-of-the-week name, when run on that same day of the week. + [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning". ] + + date -d tuesday, when run on a Tuesday -- using date built from the 7.3 + release tarball, not from git -- would print the date 7 days in the future. + Now, it works properly and prints the current date. That was due to + human error (including not-committed changes in a release tarball) + and the fact that there is no check to detect when the gnulib/ git + submodule is dirty. + +** Portability + + There have been some ACL-related portability fixes for *BSD, + inherited from gnulib. * Noteworthy changes in release 7.3 (2009-05-01) [stable] |