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@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
output format from the first line in each file, to ensure
the same number of fields are output for each line.
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ join no longer reports disorder when one of the files is empty.
+ This allows one to use join as a field extractor like:
+ join -a1 -o 1.3,1.1 - /dev/null
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.9 (2011-01-04) [stable]