The stable version of GNU Coreutils 9.10, a set of basic system utilities, has been published. It includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls.
Key innovations:
- Man pages and help messages displayed when the "--help" option is specified now have boldfaced commands and options, and the ability to link commands to online manuals on gnu.org has been added on terminal emulators that support this feature.
- The behavior of the timeout utility has been changed. It now intercepts the processing of all process termination signals (SIGPIPE, SIGALRM, SIGHUP, etc.) and redirects them to the controlled process, preventing a situation in which the timeout utility can be forcibly terminated, while the controlled process continues to run.
- The paste utility now supports specifying multi-byte characters in the "--delimiters" option.
- The cp utility has been fixed to have a regression that could cause an infinite loop in some situations.
- The executable file size has been reduced by 3.2% in the unified build, which provides a single "coreutils" executable file for all commands, and creates individual commands by creating symbolic links to it. The "--enable-single-binary=hardlinks" option has been added to use hard links to the single executable file instead of symbolic links.
- The 'stat' and 'tail' utilities now support the "guest-memfd" filesystem type, which is shown in the output of "stat -f -c%T" and causes polling to be used in "tail -f".
- The "--debug" option has been added to the 'tail' utility.
- A short version of the "--apparent-size" option, "-A", has been added to the 'du' utility for compatibility with FreeBSD.
- In the 'du' utility, processing of directories with 10 or more elements has been accelerated up to 9 times in partitions with the Lustre file system.
- The default build of the 'kill' and 'uptime' utilities has been stopped and they are now built only when the "--enable-install-program=kill,uptime" option is specified in the configure script.
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