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* NEWS: Prepare for the 4.8.0 release: minor re-ordering, and update
entries with bug numbers.
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GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout)
* Major changes in release ?.?.?, YYYY-MM-DD
* Noteworthy changes in release 4.8.0 (2020-01-09) [stable]
** Changes in xargs
'xargs -t' no longer outputs a trailing blank to stderr after the last argument
of each constructed command line to be executed. [#57291]
xargs now warns when more than one of the conflicting options --max-lines (-L,
-l), --replace (-i/-I) and --max-args (-n) are specified on the command line.
[#52137]
'xargs -t' no longer outputs a trailing blank to stderr after the last argument
of each constructed command line to be executed. [#57291]
** Bug Fixes
find no longer crashes when an XFS filesystem is heavily changed during the run.
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find -used works again. This predicate was not working properly since adding
the support for sub-second timestamp resolution for various predicates in
FINDUTILS_4_3_3-1 back in 2007.
Discussed at: <https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-findutils/2019-11/msg00010.html>
** Improvements
'find -D exec' now diagnoses all -exec, -execdir, -ok and -okdir runs including
the call arguments and the exit code of the launched process. [#59083]
** Documentation Changes
The documentation of 'find -printf %Ak' has been improved: it now refers to the
strftime(3) documentation for a complete list of supported conversion
specifiers, and documents the 'F' conversion specifier ('yyyy-mm-dd').
#59083: 'find -D exec' now diagnoses all -exec, -execdir, -ok and -okdir runs
including the call arguments and the exit code of the launched process.
The man pages (find.1, locate.1, locatedb.5, updatedb.1, and xargs.1) now
consistently end with the sections "REPORTING BUGS", "COPYRIGHT" and "SEE ALSO",
with the latter referring to the online page on the GNU web server.
The "EXAMPLES" section in the find.1 man page now shows the examples in a better
structure and uses consistent formatting.
Various man page fixes - syntax issues and typos.
[#59745, #59330, #59012, #58193, #57807, #57775]
Other documentation changes:
#58654: doc: clarify that 'find -perm +MODE' is unrelated to umask
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at newline characters.
#57025: doc: enhance description of tests accepting numeric arguments in find.1
[see also #49640].
#54730: Add additional valuable example of find -quit
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#35253: Clarify descriptions of -printf %f, %h.
** Documentation Changes
The man pages (find.1, locate.1, locatedb.5, updatedb.1, and xargs.1) now
consistently end with the sections "REPORTING BUGS", "COPYRIGHT" and "SEE ALSO",
with the latter referring to the online page on the GNU web server.
The "EXAMPLES" section in the find.1 man page now shows the examples in a better
structure and uses consistent formatting.
** Changes to the build process
The configure option --without-fts has been removed. The attempt to use