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@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
stty --help no longer outputs extraneous gettext header lines
for translated languages. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ sort, tail, and uniq now support traditional usage like 'sort +2'
+ and 'tail +10' on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2008 and later.
+ The 2008 edition of POSIX dropped the requirement that arguments
+ like '+2' must be treated as file names.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.25 (2016-01-20) [stable]