Jim Meyering | 22 Nov 15:21

coreutils-6.6 released [stable. Yes, really, this time.]

The version of ls in coreutils-6.5 had a serious bug.  For example,
"ls -l" would segfault when processing a file whose numeric user ID
or group ID has no associated name.

As usual, details are in the ChangeLog files, but note that for
changes in Gnulib-owned files (as most were, this time), the ChangeLog
files are not part of this distribution. See Gnulib for those:
<http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/?root=gnulib>.

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.6.tar.gz   (7.7MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.6.tar.bz2   (5.2MB)

Here are the xdelta-style diffs:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.5-6.6.xdelta   (104KB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.6.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.6.tar.bz2.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

7ec058ad7ab431966198052658819844  coreutils-6.6.tar.gz
64f1589af7d9a879c9bdc0af41e19ff1  coreutils-6.6.tar.bz2
4e1ccc0df7281342097ccc4ffa13632d  coreutils-6.5-6.6.xdelta
a1961cf5687c85ebcd71f703239a2ba77a5fd723  coreutils-6.6.tar.gz
9019a32b122db851eff22ace8669d7cdedf39e7b  coreutils-6.6.tar.bz2
ba4bbcc4117c0173ba5f7a6cc64d8e14f63202c0  coreutils-6.5-6.6.xdelta

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