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1 Changes in release 1.22
2 [1.21a]
3 * Fix a bug in tail when invoked with an argument like `+NUMBERc'
4 * Add test suite for tail
6 Changes in release 1.21
7 * Using --program-prefix no longer applies the prefix twice
9 Changes in release 1.20
10 * fix pr: -l now uses total number of lines per page also with -f
11 * fix pr: use left-hand-side truncation of header string to avoid line
12 overflow
13 * fix pr: it now accepts `form feeds set in input files', also with -m
14 and multiple form feeds at different pages in each file
15 * pr now accepts: -h "", print a blank line header
16 * pr: when skipping pages (+FIRST_PAGE option) line counting (-n option)
17 starts with 1st line of input file (not of 1st page printed) by default
18 * pr accepts new option: -N, start printing with an optional line number
19 * pr -t retains `form feeds set in input files' (`don't destroy page layout')
20 * pr accepts new option: -T, equivalent to -t, but eliminate also form feeds
21 (`clear file')
22 * pr accepts the extension: +FIRST_PAGE[:LAST_PAGE]
23 * pr -w and -s option disentangled (`use a separator' no longer destroys
24 column alignment)
25 * pr accepts new option: -j, merge lines of full length
26 * pr accepts the extension: -s[STRING], use separator string instead of
27 character only
28 * pr -b is no longer an independent option, balancing is always used
29 with -COLUMN (a requirement of unrestricted use of form feeds)
30 * pr accepts new option: --test, to run the pr tests with a constant
31 header string
32 * join passes all of its tests on Alpha OSF 4.0.
33 * sort no longer improperly ignores blanks in determining starting and ending
34 positions for keys with explicit character offsets
35 * fix bug in csplit with regexp and negative offset that led to infinite loop
36 Changes in test release 1.19q
37 * fix bug in sort -c that sometimes resulted in a segfault
38 Changes in test release 1.19p
39 * md5sum's --string option is being deprecated and is no longer documented.
40 It is still accepted, but will be removed altogether in 1.22.
41 * tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' no longer fails when LC_CTYPE is set to
42 iso_8859_1 on Solaris -- or any other character set with differing
43 numbers of uppercase and lowercase characters
44 * split and tail diagnose unrecognized multiplier suffixes, in e.g.,
45 `split --bytes=1M' (should be `-b 1m' or `--bytes=1m')
46 * fix bug in md5sum's handling of partial reads
47 * fix bug in treatment by sort -f of bytes with high-bit set
48 * update configuration system to use automake's aclocal program
49 * configure performs sanity check on CC and CFLAGS to avoid a misleading
50 failure that suggested cross-compiling was the cause
51 * distribute test suites for cut, join, sort, and tr
52 * unexpand no longer gets in endless loop
53 * when verifying checksums, md5sum uses the binary mode flag from the
54 input stream rather than the one from the command line
56 Changes in release 1.19
57 * md5sum can verify digests of files with names containing newline characters
58 * update from gettext-0.10.20.
60 Changes in release 1.18
61 * when building sort, link with -lm on systems that use the replacement strtod
62 * update from gettext-0.10.17.
64 Changes in release 1.17
65 * include texinfo.tex in the distribution
67 Changes in release 1.16
68 * sort is compatible with Unix sort when a key-end spec refers to the N'th
69 character in a field that has fewer than N characters
70 * tail with old-style options like -20k and +31m operates on units of bytes,
71 as the --help usage message says. Before, it used units of lines.
73 Changes in release 1.15
74 * od gives better diagnostics for invalid format specs
75 * uses automake-generated Makefile templates
76 * configure takes a new option: --enable-maintainer-mode
77 * fix a bug in fmt when prefix has trailing white space
78 * internationalized diagnostic messages
79 * fix a couple bugs in tr involving use of -c and/or -d flags -- see ChangeLog
80 * diagnose some improper or questionable invocations of csplit
81 * properly handle `echo |csplit - 1 1', rather than aborting
82 * fix join: without -t it now ignores leading blanks
83 * sort accepts new option: -z for NUL terminated records
84 * join accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i
85 * uniq accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i
87 User-visible changes in release 1.14
88 * sort -i and sort -d properly order strings containing ignored characters
89 * nl: rename misleading --first-page=N option to --starting-line-number=N.
90 * sort diagnoses invalid arguments to -k, then fails
91 * sort -n properly orders invalid integers with respect to valid integers
92 * sorting works with character offsets larger than corresponding field width
93 * sort's -b option and `b' modifier work
94 * sort -k2,2 works.
95 * csplit detects integer overflow when converting command line arguments
96 * sort accepts new option/flag, -g, for sorting numbers in scientific notation
97 * join accepts POSIX `-o 0' field specifier.
98 * tr 'a[b*512]' '[a*]' < /dev/null terminates
99 * tr '[:*3][:digit:]' 'a-m' and tr 'a[=*2][=c=]' 'xyyz' no longer fail
100 * special characters in tr's string1 and string2 may be escaped with backslash
102 User-visible changes in release 1.13
103 * md5sum: with --check, distinguish between open/read failure and bad checksum
104 * md5sum: remove -h, -s, -v short options
105 * md5sum: rename --verbose to --warn, --quiet to --status
106 * md5sum --check fails if it finds no properly formatted checksum lines
107 * sort -c prints `disorder on...' message on standard error, not stdout
108 * sort -k works as described in the texinfo documentation
109 * tail works on NetBSD
110 * md5sum reads and writes (de facto) standard Plumb/Lankester format
111 * sort accepts -.1 +.2 options for compatibility
112 * od works properly when dump limit is specified and is a multiple of
113 bytes_per_block (set by --width, 16 by default).
115 User-visible changes in release 1.12
116 * sort no longer reports spurious errors on Ultrix systems
117 * new program: md5sum
118 * all --help messages have been improved
119 * join's -a1 and -a2 options work
120 * tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' no longer reads uninitialized memory
121 * sort properly handles command line arguments like `+7.2n'
122 * fmt properly formats paragraphs not terminated by a newline
123 * tail -f flushes stdout before sleeping so that it will output partial
124 lines sooner
125 * sort properly orders fields where one field is a proper prefix of the other
126 * sort properly interprets field offsets specified via the -k option
127 * dd, od, and tail work on systems for which off_t is long long (e.g. BSD4.4)
128 * wc is faster when not counting words
129 * wc now works even when file pointer isn't at beginning of file
130 * expand no longer seg faults with very long tab lists
132 User-visible changes in release 1.11
133 * fmt is built
135 User-visible changes in release 1.10
136 * skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
137 * new program: fmt
138 * tail -f on multiple files reports file truncation
139 * tail -q has been fixed so it never prints headers
140 * wc -c is much faster when operating on non-regular files
141 * unexpand gives a diagnostic (rather than a segfault) when given a name of
142 a nonexistent file.
143 * cat, csplit, head, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, and wc no longer fail
144 gratuitously when continued after a suspended read or write system call.
145 * cut interprets -d '' to mean `use the NUL byte as the delimiter' rather
146 than reporting that no delimiter was specified and failing.
147 * `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3,4' prints `c:'. Before it printed just `c'.
148 * cut has been rewritten, is markedly faster for large inputs, and passes a
149 fairly large test suite.
150 * sort properly handles the argument to the -T option.
151 \f
152 Major changes in release 1.9.1:
153 * cut no longer ignores the last line of input when that line lacks a
154 trailing newline character
155 \f
156 Major changes in release 1.9:
157 * `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3-' prints `c:' and
158 `echo a:b | cut -d: -f1' prints `a'.
159 * the command `printf '\t\n' |fold -w n' now terminates.
160 Before, it wouldn't stop for n less than 8.
161 * sort accepts and ignores -y[string] options for compatibilty with Solaris.
162 * cat -v /dev/null works on more systems
163 * od's --compatible (-C) flag renamed to --traditional (no short option)
164 * --help and --version exit successfully
165 * --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the
166 correspondence between short and long-named options.
167 * fix bug in cut. Now `echo 'a:b:c:' | cut -d: -f3-' works.
168 Before it printed `c' instead of `c:'
169 * csplit allows repeat counts to be specified via `{*}'.
170 * csplit accepts a new option, --suffix=format that supercedes the
171 --digits option. The --digits option will continue to work.
172 * csplit accepts a new option, --elide-empty-files.
173 * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
174 some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
175 * work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
176 ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
177 and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
178 \f
179 Major changes in release 1.8:
180 * added non-ANSIfied version of memchr.c from GNU libc.
181 \f
182 Major changes in release 1.7:
183 * none
184 Major changes in release 1.6:
185 * with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately
186 * pr -2a really terminates
187 * pr -n produces multi-column output
188 \f
189 Major changes in release 1.5:
190 * sort is 8-bit clean
191 * sort's -n and -M options no longer imply -b
192 * several bugs in sort have been fixed
193 * all programs accept --help and --version options
194 * od --compatible accepts pre-POSIX arguments
195 * pr -2a terminates
196 \f
197 Major changes in release 1.4:
198 * add od and cksum programs
199 * move cmp to GNU diff distribution
200 * tail -f works for multiple files
201 * pr prints the file name in error messages
202 * fix some off by 1 errors in pr and fold
203 * optimize wc -c on regular files
204 * sort handles `-' argument correctly
205 * sort supports -T option
206 * tr ranges like a-a work
207 * tr x '' fails gracefully
208 * default sum output format is BSD compatible
209 * paste -d '' works