• Bug fixes
  • cp --parents will now set an SELinux context for created directories, as appropriate for the -a, --preseve=context, or -Z options. [bug present since SELinux support added in coreutils-6.10]
  • date again converts from a specified time zone. Previously output was not converted to the local time zone, and remained in the specified one. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
  • Commands like 'cp --no-dereference -l A B' are no longer quiet no-ops when A is a regular file and B is a symbolic link that points to A. [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0]
  • factor no longer goes into an infinite loop for certain numbers like 158909489063877810457 and 222087527029934481871. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
  • stat and tail now know about the "rdt" file system, which is an interface to Resource Director Technology. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
  • tail no longer prints redundant file headers with interleaved inotify events, which could be triggered especially when tail was suspended and resumed. [bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
  • timeout no longer has a race that may terminate the wrong process. The race is unlikely, as timeout(1) needs to receive a signal right after the command being monitored finishes. Also the system needs to have reallocated that command's pid in that short time window. [bug introduced when timeout was added in coreutils-7.0]
  • wc --bytes --files0-from now correctly reports byte counts. Previously it may have returned values that were too large, depending on the size of the first file processed. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]

For improvements and new features, check the
release notes

Closes T2850

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves <pyu@riseup.net>

Successfully tried a few utils:

• mkdir
• ls
• cp
• mv
• rm
• rmdir
• touch
• uname
• cat
• date
• du
• sha256sum
• split
• tail
• wc
• whoami