From 5aa7858385f7f6fe8c6f873ff1ba510b87288241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:17:53 +0200 Subject: admin: update NEWS * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the date-related fixes. (Portability): Mention the ACL-related fixes on *BSD. --- NEWS | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e998d37b8..5ab111598 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,25 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- -* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +* Noteworthy changes in release 7.4 (2009-05-07) [stable] + +** Bug fixes + + date -d 'next mon', when run on a Monday, now prints the date + 7 days in the future rather than the current day. Same for any other + day-of-the-week name, when run on that same day of the week. + [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning". ] + + date -d tuesday, when run on a Tuesday -- using date built from the 7.3 + release tarball, not from git -- would print the date 7 days in the future. + Now, it works properly and prints the current date. That was due to + human error (including not-committed changes in a release tarball) + and the fact that there is no check to detect when the gnulib/ git + submodule is dirty. + +** Portability + + There have been some ACL-related portability fixes for *BSD, + inherited from gnulib. * Noteworthy changes in release 7.3 (2009-05-01) [stable] -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2