coreutils-6.9 released [stable]

Coreutils version 6.9 has been released.
This is a stable, bug-fix-only release.

If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good
place to start: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/>.

The previous stable release was 6.7, on Dec 8, 2006.
Then there was a nearly-stable 6.8 release on Feb 24, 2007.
Since 6.8 was a test release, I've included its NEWS entries
below, along with the few for 6.9.

Thanks to all of the people who have contributed patches, suggestions,
and bug reports.  Their names are listed in the ChangeLog files.
A lot of coreutils' portability infrastructure comes from gnulib,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib>, so ChangeLog entries for the
vast majority of files in lib/ and m4/ are no longer included here.

P.S., I'm considering no longer distributing .xdelta difference files.
If you use those files, please send a message to the bug-coreutils
mailing list.

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Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz   (7.9MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2   (5.2MB)

Here are the xdelta-style diffs:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7-6.9.xdelta   (916KB)