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@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
seq no longer mishandles obvious cases like "seq 0 0.000001 0.000003",
so workarounds like "seq 0 0.000001 0.0000031" are no longer needed.
+ seq would mistakenly reject some valid format strings containing %%,
+ and would mistakenly accept some invalid ones. e.g., %g%% and %%g, resp.
+
Obsolete sort usage with an invalid ordering-option character, e.g.,
"env _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 sort +1x" no longer makes sort free an
invalid pointer [introduced in coreutils-6.5]