1 Changes in release 1.13
3 * running `make check' runs tests of nice
4 * lots of configuration-related improvements
5 * nice allows `+' in options like -+8 and -+13.
6 * when matching, expr warns about non-portability when the first character
7 of the basic regular expression is `^'
8 * `id user' no longer prints bogus group list
9 * uses automake-generated Makefile templates
10 * date accepts new %V format
11 * date's %U and %W formats work properly
12 * nice option handling works with 2-digit old-style-option adjustments.
13 Now, `nice -18 -- nice' prints `18'. Before it printed `8'.
14 * internationalized diagnostic messages
15 * `date -d "01/01/1998 3 years" +%Y' now works properly. It prints 2001.
16 * New programs: chroot, factor, seq, uptime.
17 * date accepts new option: --rfc-822 (-R)
18 * date accepts new format, %z, for RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500)
19 * date: fix bugs in the handling of date -u +'%s %Z'.
20 * date accepts new option --reference=FILE (-r FILE) analogous to the
21 like-named touch option.
22 * date can now format dates up to and including ones in the year 2037
23 User visible changes in release 1.12
25 User visible changes in release 1.11
26 * date accepts new option: (-f) --file=DATEFILE
27 * skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
28 * `stty werase ^W' works. Before, werase wasn't enabled for AIX-3.2.5.
29 * su with no arguments works properly
30 * nice accepts options like `--5' (this is interpreted like `-n -5')
31 * nice now interprets `-1 -1' like `-1' not like `-11'
32 * `stty speed' and `stty size' no longer output a spurious newline
33 User visible changes in release 1.10
34 * change package name from shellutils to sh-utils
35 * add hostname, pwd, and users commands
36 * --version outputs the name of the utility as well as the package name
38 * Configure properly determines options for stty on SCO ODT 3.0 systems.
39 * `date -d' works better. Before, `date -d '4apr94'' produced
40 `Sun Apr 3 23:00:00 CDT 1994'.
41 User visible changes in release 1.9.4
42 * Repair stty option handling.
43 User visible changes in release 1.9.3
44 * `stty -a -g' gets a diagnostic
45 * `stty {-a|-g} any-other-argument' gets a diagnostic
46 * stty no longer ignores some of its arguments
47 * basename and dirname no longer treat `--' specially
48 * `basename -- file.c .c' generates a usage error. Before, it output `file'.
49 * `basename file-dist -dist' outputs `file'. Before it output `file-dist'.
50 * stty defaults `swtch' to undefined for Solaris so `susp' (^Z) will work.
51 Before, with the default settings ^Z did nothing.
52 * stty no longer gives an error message when it finds a spurious difference
53 (due to buggy tcgetattr/tcsetattr) between requested and current tty
54 modes under SunOS 4.1.x.
55 * stty no longer fails if the ioctl to determine the display width fails
56 when displaying settings.
57 * stty works around SunOS 4.x kernel bug that made `stty rows 0 cols 0' fail.
58 * who and tee no longer fail gratuitously when continued after an
59 interrupted read or write system call.
60 * date accepts new format: %s time in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UCT
61 * date -d can parse dates like `11-JUL-1991'
62 * expr '' == 0 works (before, it printed 1)
63 * stty no longer fails on telnet sessions to Solaris systems
64 * `cd /etc; who utmp' now works. Before, any filename argument had to be
65 absolute or relative to /dev.
67 User visible changes in release 1.9.2:
68 * who output is better formatted on Solaris and other SysVr4 systems
69 * fix a minor problem in formatting the output from `stty -a'
70 * yes with arguments outputs newlines again
71 * partial stty failures are reported
73 Major changes in release 1.9.1:
74 * stty can be built on Suns again
75 * minor fix for who -q
77 Major changes in release 1.9:
78 * su fails gracefully when getpass is unable to open /dev/tty.
79 * printenv and tty detect and report write errors
81 * stty accepts the new options status and flush on systems that provide them
82 * `expr 1 / 0' gives an error message rather than trying to divide by zero
83 * expr's `substr' doesn't overrun malloc'd buffer
84 * expr recognizes the string `0' as zero
85 * better support for Linux, Dec Alpha, and SGI Irix
86 * all programs (even true and false) accept --version and --help options
87 * uname's --version option is no longer equivalent to its -v option
88 * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
89 some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
90 * work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
91 ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
92 and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
93 * make may be run from the subdirectories
95 Major changes in release 1.8:
97 * fix some incorrect warnings in pathchk
98 * look at the right utmp file on 386BSD
99 * date doesn't dump core on some systems now
101 Major changes in release 1.7:
102 * add su, who, true, false commands
103 * add more tests to expr
104 * fix printf program handling of \ escapes
105 * printf can re-use format string for multiple groups of arguments
106 * printf catches numeric conversion errors with an ANSI C library
107 * stty nl and -nl were backwards
108 * date can format an arbitrary date without setting it