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@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  cp --parents no longer uses uninitialized memory when restoring the
+  permissions of a just-created destination directory.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.90]
+
   tr's case conversion would fail in a locale with differing numbers
   of lower case and upper case characters.  E.g., this would fail:
   env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'