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@@ -2,11 +2,20 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Bug fixes
+
df now fails when the list of mounted file systems (/etc/mtab) cannot
be read, yet the file system type information is needed to process
certain options like -a, -l, -t and -x.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+** New features
+
+ rm now accepts the --dir (-d) option which makes it remove empty directories.
+ Since removing empty directories is relatively safe, this option can be
+ used as a part of the alias rm='rm --dir'. This improves compatibility
+ with Mac OS X and BSD systems which also honor the -d option.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.18 (2012-08-12) [stable]