The release of the uutils coreutils project 0.0.19 is available, developing an analog of the GNU Coreutils package, rewritten in Rust. The coreutils package includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils that can work on platforms such as Windows, Redox, and Fuchsia. Unlike GNU Coreutils, the Rust implementation is distributed under the permissive MIT license instead of the copyleft GPL license.
Key Changes:
- Improved compatibility with the reference test suite of GNU Coreutils, with 365 tests passing (previous version 340), 186 (210) tests failing, and 49 (50) tests skipped. The GNU Coreutils 9.3 release was used as the reference.
- Enhanced capabilities, improved compatibility, and missing options added for the utilities b2sum, basenc, chgrp, chown, cksum, cp, date, dd, dircolors, du, factor, fmt, hashsum, head, ls, mkdir, mktemp, more, mv, nice, paste, pwd, rm, shred, tail, touch, uniq, wc, whoami, yes.
- Issues in rm and uniq related to incorrect UTF-8 characters in file and directory names have been resolved.
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