The stable version of the GNU Coreutils basic system utilities 9.11 is now available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls.
Key innovations:
- The utilities cut, nl, unexpand, and expand have implemented support for multi-byte characters.
- The cut utility has added the options '-w', '-F', and '-O' for compatibility with other systems.
- In the cat and yes utilities, zero-copy input/output is utilized when running on Linux, with some tests showing a 15-fold speed increase.
- The 'cksum --check' feature has improved file name escaping.
- The date utility now parses dates in the 'dd.mm.yy' format.
- The 'shuf -i' operations have been optimized, performing up to 2 times faster.
- The performance of 'wc -m' when processing multi-byte characters has been accelerated by up to 2.6 times.
- On ARM systems with NEON instructions, the execution of 'wc -l' has been accelerated by up to 4.5 times.
Source: opennet.ru
