uutils/coreutils 0.0.29

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📦 Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 Release:

We are excited to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.0.29!

Highlights:

• Improved Compatibility:
  • Passing GNU tests increased to 506 (+30 compared to 0.0.28).
  • Failing tests reduced to 67 (-27 compared to 0.0.28).
• Contributions: This release was made possible by the dedication of 32 contributors, including 18 newcomers.
• Compared with 0.0.28, several commands now achieve 100% compatibility with GNU tests, including df, dircolors, chmod, chroot, comm, seq, split, uniq, and more.
• Performance Boost: Optimizations in tools like du, echo, and seq.

GNU Test Suite Compatibility:

Here’s how version 0.0.29 compares to the previous release:

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What's Changed

basenc

• basenc: ignore Interrupted errors by @andrewliebenow in #6778
• basenc: ignore case with "--base16 --decode" by @cakebaker in #6963
• build-gnu.sh: adapt basenc message to clap changes by @cakebaker in #6966

base32/base64

• handle two corner cases by @sylvestre in #6906

checksum

• prepare further behavior fix with a rework by @RenjiSann in #6822
• Further rework by @RenjiSann in #6868
• cksum: even more fixes by @RenjiSann in #6929
• fuzzing: add a new fuzzer for cksum by @sylvestre in #6585
• fix error message when the flags length and an algorithm different from blake2b are present by @Felle33 in #7071
• the --tag is meaningless with --check by @Felle33 in #7079
• remove some unnecessary type info by @cakebaker in #7080

chmod

• Remove duplicate declarations + start to plug it to chmod too by @sylvestre in #7017
• add uucore's perms feature to Cargo.toml by @cakebaker in #7037
• add support for the deref and links options by @sylvestre in #7025
• remove test tests/chmod/symlinks from the list by @sylvestre in #7125

chroot

• fix parsing of --userspec argument by @jfinkels in #7043
• remove -G short option by @cakebaker in #7051
• fix many issues with chroot by @jfinkels in #7057
• handle the error when invalid user by @sylvestre in #7015
• make group option self overwriting by @AnirbanHalder654322 in #7123
• tests/chroot/chroot-credentials has been fixed by @sylvestre in #7124

comm

• generate an error if the input is a directory by @sylvestre in #6853
• adapt GNU error messages by @cakebaker in #6998
• don't use files for test by @sylvestre in #7140
• implement the ordering check by @sylvestre in #7144

cp

• remove some sleep() calls in tests by @cakebaker in #6890
• use the function from uucore by @sylvestre in #7003
• when copying a read only file, make sure that the xattrs can be set properly by @sylvestre in #7009
• copy attributes after making subdir by @rm-dr in #6884
• make --backup and --no-clobber are mutually exclusive by @sylvestre in #7082
• implement copying from streams by @DaringCuteSeal in #7061

csplit

• fix bug when --suppress-matched flag is active and positive/negative offset is present by @Felle33 in #7088
• support reading from pipe by @fuad1502 in #6951
• simplify test by @cakebaker in #7106
• add support for -q by @cakebaker in #7000
• allow offset without sign in pattern by @cakebaker in #7006

cut

• Fix cut when lines don't end with specified delim by @andreistan26 in #5844
• adjust to our messages as they are better by @sylvestre in #6921
• some test refactorings by @cakebaker in #6970
• fix overriding of -d= by @cakebaker in #6984
• don't merge adjacent ranges by @cakebaker in #6990
• fix handling of newline as delimiter by @cakebaker in #6996

date

• display %Z alphabetic time zone abbreviation by @jfinkels in #7134

dd

• error if iflag=directory and input is stdin by @jfinkels in #7122

df

• fix display of special characters by @jfinkels in #7151
• error on over-mounted device by @jfinkels in #7116
• df test now passes by @sylvestre in #7130

dircolors

• fix empty COLORTERM matching with ?* pattern by @sylvestre in #7089
• move use declaration to top by @cakebaker in #7143
• dircolors is fixed by @sylvestre in #7141

du

• Reuse metadata from DirEntry where possible by @jesseschalken in #6839
• fix the display with --inodes by @sylvestre in #6878
• deduplicate the input by @sylvestre in #6885
• Reuse existing metadata instead of calling path.is_dir() again by @jesseschalken in #6840

echo

• remove code made obsolete by MSRV 1.79 by @cakebaker in #6989
• handle double hyphens by @cakebaker in #6997
• add support for POSIXLY_CORRECT by @cakebaker in #7059

env

• add missing cfg attributes to tests by @cakebaker in #6896
• better handling of the errors by @sylvestre in #7090
• fix only long options are allowed to contain '=' by @jovielarue in #7008

fmt

• generate an error if the input is a directory by @sylvestre in #6854

head

• fix subtraction underflow with --bytes=-N by @jfinkels in #7036
• make head fail when writing to /dev/full by @DaringCuteSeal in #7068

install

• create destination file with safer modes before copy by @nerdroychan in #6595
• Revert "create destination file with safer modes before copy" by @sylvestre in #6922
• implement copying from streams by @DaringCuteSeal in #6965

kill

• add -n hidden option for compatibility with bash by @samueltardieu in #7069
• make -s conflict with -l and -t by @samueltardieu in #7070

ls

• when a file has capabilities (setcap), change the color by @sylvestre in #6987
• finish the plug of mtime by @sylvestre in #7016
• add better support for non-UTF-8 bytes by @jtracey in #7020

mkfifo

• better handle the mode + umask by @sylvestre in #6971
• add missing "mode" feature for uucore dep by @jfinkels in #7075

more

• reduce memory usage a bit by @tertsdiepraam in #6399

mv

• fix the output of an error message by @sylvestre in #6861
• remove sleep in tests by @cakebaker in #6880
• show "same file" error for mv d/f d by @cakebaker in #5788
• Revert "show 'same file' error for mv d/f d" by @sylvestre in #6905
• fix invalid numbered backup path by @hamflx in #6119
• don't panic if apply_xattrs fails by @alexs-sh in #6936
• improve move-to-self error handling by @sgvictorino in #6995

numfmt

• use succeeds()/fails() instead of run() in tests by @cakebaker in #7135
• adapt GNU numfmt error message by @cakebaker in #7086

printf

• remove allow(dead_code) directive by @jfinkels in #7110

rm

• fix r4_gnu_test by @AnirbanHalder654322 in #6621
• remove outdated comment by @cakebaker in #7022
• remove open call from uu-rm by @elde-n in #7010

seq

• add overflow checks when parsing exponents by @steinwand6 in #6858
• handle scientific notation with uppercase 'E' by @artP2 in #6928
• reduce memory allocation during prefix search by @alexs-sh in #6949
• handle 0e... scientific notation without padding by @aimerlief in #6934
• use stdout_only() to remove no_stderr() by @cakebaker in #6937
• improve error handling for invalid -f values by @jfinkels in #7032
• re-enable GNU test file precision.sh by @jfinkels in #7095
• add floating point support by @alexs-sh in #6959
• add a lower bound for exponents by @alexs-sh in #7145
• fixed tests/seq/seq-precision by @sylvestre in #7147

sort

• Rework merge batching logic by @karlmcdowall in #6957

split

• fix bug with large arguments to -C by @jfinkels in #7128

stat

• Improve "stat" compatibility by @sylvestre in #6933
• fix precision when rendering mtime (%Y) by @jfinkels in #7115

tail

• fix issue #6543 (--pid when reading from stdin) by @just-an-engineer in #6582

tr

• Add ambiguous octal escape warning by @OshinoShinobu-Chan in #6886
• generate an error if the input is a directory by @sylvestre in #6855
• generate an error for real if the input is a directory by @sylvestre in #6907

tsort

• split edge data on any whitespace chars by @jfinkels in #7078
• print nodes and cycles as they are visited by @jfinkels in #7093

uniq

• fix multibyte input by @sylvestre in #7046

wc

• fix escaping by @jtracey in #6993

uucore

• Make EscapedChar and friends pub by @LegNeato in #6903
• Make Spec public by @LegNeato in #6946
• uucore/buf_copy: bug fixes for compatibility with uutils core utilities by @DaringCuteSeal in #6983
• uucore: add common splice-write functionality by @DaringCuteSeal in #6964
• uucore: correctly truncate response if getgroups shrinks by @santtu in #6978
• uucore: add alacritty to the list of terminals that support colors by @sylvestre in #6923
• uucore/buf-copy: delete redundant functions by @DaringCuteSeal in #7060
• quoting_style: Add support for non-UTF-8 bytes by @jtracey in #6882
• uucore:format:fix floating-point representation by @alexs-sh in #7034
• Remove crash! macro by @saulvaldelvira in #7084
• uucore: remove mention of crash in docs by @jfinkels in #7109

Build & CI

• GNUmakefile: remove sleep from UNIX_PROGS to avoid warning by @cakebaker in #6960
• publish: by default, put it as draft by @sylvestre in #6860
• Bump MSRV to 1.77 by @cakebaker in #6870
• Improve gnu build script by @sylvestre in #7136
• GnuComment: zizmor: ignore[dangerous-triggers] by @dcampbell24 in #6974
• Android CICD: use posix style test by @jtracey in #6982
• GNU: try to remove the fail-2eperm.sh workaround by @sylvestre in #7013
• ci: install libselinux1-dev by @cakebaker in #7132
• Put DEFAULT_BRANCH into an env variable. by @dcampbell24 in #6973
• Set persist-credentials: false by @dcampbell24 in #6975
• Use the env variable STYLE_FAIL_ON_FAULT. by @dcampbell24 in #6976
• GNU: Improve the SKIP reporting by @sylvestre in #6988
• GnuTests: also display CURRENT_RUN_SKIP for debug purposes by @sylvestre in #6992
• CI: test all features individually by @sylvestre in #7038
• CI: disable the windows job for indiv tests by @sylvestre in #7047
• deny.toml: remove entries from skip list by @cakebaker in #7118
• Refresh cargo.lock and update deny configuration by @sylvestre in #7120
• Prepare release 0.0.29 by @sylvestre in #7121

Code quality

• Fix new clippy warnings by @sylvestre in #6898
• Use div_ceil() from std by @cakebaker in #6877
• uudoc,chcon: fix needless_lifetimes warnings by @cakebaker in #6899
• uucore/perms: use ORs instead of match (fix todo) by @cakebaker in #6891
• clippy: fix clippy warnings by @sylvestre in #6910
• Fix clippy warnings by @RenjiSann in #6932
• Improve the GNU compat doc by @sylvestre in #7012
• clippy: fix errors introduced with Rust 1.84 by @cakebaker in #7111

Documentation

• doc: remove fixed tests from why-error.md by @cakebaker in #7101
• doc: improve why-error doc by @sylvestre in #7091
• document two more failures by @sylvestre in #7041
• Fix: broken doc links by @jovielarue in #7024

Dependencies

• Bump crossterm from 0.27.0 to 0.28.1 by @cakebaker in #6874
• Bump thiserror from 1.0.69 to 2.0.3 by @cakebaker in #6888
• Bump cpp and cpp_build from 0.5.9 to 0.5.10 by @cakebaker in #6887
• fuzz: bump bigdecimal from 0.4.3 to 0.4.7 by @cakebaker in #7148
• Bump chrono-tz to 0.10.0 by @cakebaker in #7146
• Bump itertools from 0.13.0 to 0.14.0 by @cakebaker in #7045
• Bump tempfile from 3.14.0 to 3.15.0 by @cakebaker in #7062
• Bump unicode-width, adapt test and fixtures by @cakebaker in #6904
• Bump clap to 4.5.23 & fix failing seq tests by @cakebaker in #6955
• Bump zip from 1.1.4 to 2.2.2 by @cakebaker in #6873
• Cargo.lock: downgrade log from 0.4.24 to 0.4.22 by @cakebaker in #7131
• fix(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.164 by @renovate in #6847
• chore(deps): update rust crate serde to v1.0.215 by @renovate in #6862
• chore(deps): update davidanson/markdownlint-cli2-action action to v18 by @renovate in #6864
• fix(deps): update rust crate libfuzzer-sys to v0.4.8 by @renovate in #6863
• fix(deps): update rust crate tempfile to v3.14.0 by @renovate in #6866
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v1.0.69 by @renovate in #6843
• chore(deps): update rust crate bstr to v1.11.0 by @renovate in #6865
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_mangen to v0.2.24 by @renovate in #6358
• fix(deps): update rust crate proc-macro2 to v1.0.91 by @renovate in #6879
• fix(deps): update rust crate proc-macro2 to v1.0.92 by @renovate in #6881
• chore(deps): update rust crate fts-sys to v0.2.13 by @renovate in #6883
• fix(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.165 by @renovate in #6889
• fix(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.166 by @renovate in #6894
• chore(deps): update rust crate blake3 to v1.5.5 by @renovate in #6895
• chore(deps): update dawidd6/action-download-artifact action to v7 by @renovate in #6900
• fix(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.167 by @renovate in #6901
• chore(deps): update rust crate terminal_size to v0.4.1 by @renovate in #6902
• chore(deps): update rust crate time to v0.3.37 by @renovate in #6908
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.4 by @renovate in #6909
• chore(deps): update rust crate self_cell to v1.1.0 by @renovate in #6927
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.5 by @renovate in #6939
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.6 by @renovate in #6940
• chore(deps): update rust crate bigdecimal to v0.4.7 by @renovate in #6941
• fix(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.168 by @renovate in #6943
• chore(deps): update rust crate chrono to v0.4.39 by @renovate in #6942
• chore(deps): update rust crate serde to v1.0.216 by @renovate in #6948
• chore(deps): update rust crate bstr to v1.11.1 by @renovate in #6950
• fix(deps): update rust crate lazy_static to v1.5.0 by @renovate in #6952
• chore(deps): update mozilla-actions/sccache-action action to v0.0.7 by @renovate in #6953
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.7 by @renovate in #6958
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.38 by @renovate in #6361
• fix(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.39 by @renovate in #6961
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.40 by @renovate in #6967
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.8 by @renovate in #6969
• fix(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.169 by @renovate in #6977
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.9 by @renovate in #6986
• chore(deps): update rust crate platform-info to v2.0.5 by @renovate in #6991
• chore(deps): update vmactions/freebsd-vm action to v1.1.6 by @renovate in #6994
• fix(deps): update rust crate quote to v1.0.38 by @renovate in #6999
• chore(deps): update rust crate serde to v1.0.217 by @renovate in #7007
• chore(deps): update rust crate glob to v0.3.2 by @renovate in #7018
• chore(deps): update vmactions/freebsd-vm action to v1.1.7 by @renovate in #7014
• chore(deps): update davidanson/markdownlint-cli2-action action to v19 by @renovate in #7019
• chore(deps): update rust crate rstest to 0.24.0 by @renovate in #7049
• chore(deps): update rust crate bstr to v1.11.3 by @renovate in #7054
• chore(deps): update rust crate xattr to v1.4.0 by @renovate in #7081
• chore(deps): update rust crate phf to v0.11.3 by @renovate in #7085
• chore(deps): update rust crate phf_codegen to v0.11.3 by @renovate in #7083
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.24 by @renovate in #7099
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.41 by @renovate in #7100
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_mangen to v0.2.25 by @renovate in #7102
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.10 by @renovate in #7104
• chore(deps): update vmactions/freebsd-vm action to v1.1.8 by @renovate in #7105
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.26 by @renovate in #7107
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.42 by @renovate in #7108
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_mangen to v0.2.26 by @renovate in #7112
• fix(deps): update rust crate proc-macro2 to v1.0.93 by @renovate in #7117
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.11 by @renovate in #7114
• chore(deps): update rust crate notify to v8 by @renovate in #7113
• fix(deps): update rust crate data-encoding-macro to v0.1.16 by @renovate in #7137
• chore(deps): update rust crate chrono-tz to v0.10.1 by @renovate in #7150
• fix(deps): crates import compatible uucore by @Banyc in #6869

New Contributors

• @Banyc made their first contribution in #6869
• @jesseschalken made their first contribution in #6839
• @steinwand6 made their first contribution in #6858
• @LegNeato made their first contribution in #6903
• @hamflx made their first contribution in #6119
• @andreistan26 made their first contribution in #5844
• @nerdroychan made their first contribution in #6595
• @artP2 made their first contribution in #6928
• @aimerlief made their first contribution in #6934
• @alexs-sh made their first contribution in #6936
• @santtu made their first contribution in #6978
• @karlmcdowall made their first contribution in #6957
• @elde-n made their first contribution in #7010
• @jovielarue made their first contribution in #7008
• @Felle33 made their first contribution in #7071
• @rm-dr made their first contribution in #6884
• @saulvaldelvira made their first contribution in #7084
• @fuad1502 made their first contribution in #6951

Full Changelog: 0.0.28...0.0.29