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#5918: coreutils-9.11
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Reporter: Bruce Dubbs | Owner: lfs-book
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 13.1
Component: Book | Version: git
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by Bruce Dubbs):
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.11 (2026-04-20) [stable]
** Bug fixes
'dd' now always diagnoses partial writes correctly upon write failure.
Previously it may have indicated that only full writes were performed.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
'fold' will no longer truncate output when encountering 0xFF bytes.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.8]
'fold' is again responsive to its input. Previously it would have
delayed
processing until 256KiB was read from the input.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.8]
'kill --help' now has links to valid anchors in the html manual.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.10]
When configured with --enable-systemd, the commands 'pinky',
'uptime', 'users', and 'who' no longer consider the systemd session
classes 'greeter', 'lock-screen', 'background', 'background-light',
and 'none' to be users.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.4]
'pwd' on ancient systems will no longer overflow a buffer
when operating in deep paths longer than twice the system PATH_MAX.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.6]
'stat --printf=%%N' no longer performs unnecessary checks of the
QUOTING_STYLE
environment variable.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
'timeout' no longer exits abruptly when its parent is the init process,
e.g.,
when started by the entrypoint of a container.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.10]
** New Features
'cut' now supports multi-byte input and delimiters. Consequently
the -c option is now honored, and no longer an alias for -b, and
the -n option is now honored, and no longer ignored.
Also the -d option supports multi-byte delimiters.
'cut' adds new options for better compatibility:
The -w,--whitespace-delimited option was added to support blank aligned
fields
and for better compatibility with FreeBSD/macOS.
The -O option was added as an alias for the --output-delimiter option,
for better compatibility with busybox/toybox.
The -F option was added as an alias for -w -O ' '
for better compatibility with busybox/toybox.
'date --date' now parses dot delimited dd.mm.yy format common in Europe.
This is in addition to the already supported mm/dd/yy and yy-mm-dd
formats.
** Changes in behavior
'cksum --check' now uses shell quoting when required, to more robustly
escape file names output in diagnostics.
This also affects md5sum, sha*sum, and b2sum.
** Improvements
'cat' now uses zero-copy I/O on Linux when appropriate, to improve
throughput.
E.g., throughput improved 6x from 12.9GiB/s to 81.8GiB/s on a Power10
system.
'df --local' recognises more file system types as remote.
Specifically: autofs, ncpfs, smb, smb2, gfs, gfs2, userlandfs.
'df' improves duplicate mount suppression, by checking each mount
against
all previously kept entries for the same device, not just the latest
one.
'expand' and 'unexpand' now support multi-byte characters.
'groups' and 'id' will now exit sooner after a write error,
which is significant when listing information for many users.
'install' now allows the combination of the --compare and
--preserve-timestamps options.
'fold', 'join', 'numfmt', 'uniq' now use more consistent blank character
determination on non GLIBC platforms. For example \u3000 (ideographic
space)
will be considered a blank character on all platforms.
'nl' now supports multi-byte --section-delimiter characters.
'shuf -i' now operates up to two times faster on systems with unlocked
stdio
functions.
'tac' will now exit sooner after a write error, which is significant
when
operating on a file with many lines.
'timeout' now properly detects when it is reparented by a subreaper
process on
Linux instead of init, e.g., the 'systemd --user' process.
'wc -l' now operates up to four and a half times faster on hosts that
support
Neon instructions.
'wc -m' now operates up to 2.6 times faster on GLIBC when processing
non-ASCII UTF-8 characters.
'yes' now uses zero-copy I/O on Linux to significantly increase
throughput.
E.g., throughput improved 15x from 11.6GiB/s to 175GiB/s on a Power10
system.
** Build-related
./configure --enable-single-binary=hardlinks is now supported on systems
with dash as the system shell at /bin/sh.
[issue introduced in coreutils-9.10]
The test suite may have failed with a "Hangup" error if run non-
interactively.
[issue introduced in coreutils-9.10]
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