0.0.18

🎉 We're excited to announce the new release of Rust coreutils! This release brings several improvements and new features, including updates to the GNU test suite compatibility, and refinements in various utilities such as cksum, chmod, chroot, comm, cp, cut, and many more.

General changes

• GNU/coreutils: update reference to 9.2 by @cakebaker in #4601
• MSRV 1.64 & Workspace inheritance for dependencies by @tertsdiepraam in #4344
• Fuzzing deployed for some programs and functions
• For most of the programs, the help and description are using dedicated markdown files.
• Adjust -i behavior for ln, cp & mv by @sylvestre in #4630
• Refactor signal handling in yes, tee, and timeout by @anastygnome in #4588
• Migrate from atty to is-terminal by @souzaguilhermea in #4382

GNU test suite compatibility

Many utils have gotten minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. Below is a summary of the progress. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details
The numbers changes in every category because of the GNU/Coreutils upgraded to 9.2

result	0.0.17	0.0.18	change
pass	338	340	+2
skip	48	50	+2
fail	204	210	+6
error	3	2	+-1

Detailed changes

cksum 

• Implement -a by @howjmay in #4356

chmod

• change permissions for files present even when there is a missing file by @dmatos2012 in #4359
• suppress verbose output when not verbose by @dmatos2012 in #4402
• allow verbose and quiet flags to be used more than once by @dmatos2012 in #4410
• Fix GNU test 'chmod/usage' by @bbara in #4442

chroot

• Fix unused import on Android by @miles170 in #4571

comm

• Implement --total by @cakebaker in #4300
• Enable "no_arguments" & "one_argument" tests by @cakebaker in #4330
• Use delimiter on "total" line by @cakebaker in #4314
• Implement --zero-terminated by @cakebaker in #4449
• Allow multiple occurrence of --zero-terminated by @cakebaker in #4452

cp

• Modify archive flag to copy dir contents rather than dir by @dmatos2012 in #3954
• Use PathBuf instead of String for paths by @tmccombs in #4348
• Stop saying --sparse is not implemented for cp by @tmccombs in #4349

cut

• Refactor by @TechHara in #4255

date

• Show error when reading dirs for -f arg by @shanmukhateja in #4572
• Added default value for date --i. by @kidrigger in #4522
• fix: match date -I error messages with GNU date by @shanmukhateja in #4499
• Added tests for date ISO8601 formats. by @kidrigger in #4520
• Make sure 'invalid date' message also returns exit code 1 by @tertsdiepraam in #4526
• Fix invalid argument error for RFC 3339 by @shanmukhateja in #4535
• A better handler for ./coreutils date -f aze by @AbhinavMir in #4482

dd

• Move dd_out() function up to module level by @jfinkels in #4428
• Allow skipping and seeking in FIFOs by @jfinkels in #4164
• Fix precision for display of total time spent by @jfinkels in #4498
• Fix unused imports on FreeBSD by @miles170 in #4512
• Open stdin from file descriptor when possible by @jfinkels in #4189

du

• threshold error message fix by @haciek in #4637
• Update the GNU error message to our for tests/du/threshold.sh by @sylvestre in #4656
• Run test_du_time with TZ=UTC. by @eggpi in #4446
• Fix unnecessary boolean operation by @papparapa in #4548

env

• start about text with uppercase char by @cakebaker in #4324
• docs: document env -f/--file in GNU extensions by @tertsdiepraam in #4331

expand

• Improve plus specifier handling by @sbentmar in #4260

factor

• Remove paste dev dependency by @tertsdiepraam in #4631

hashsum

• Add --zero option (#4612) by @0xMRTT in #4632

install

• Fix bad target directory permissions by @kylemanna in #4364
• Add missing directory chown by @kylemanna in #4365

ln

• Fix format of help text by @cakebaker in #4327

ls

• Cannot find function expected_result in this scope by @piotrkwiecinski in #4580
• Handling case sensitive ls output by @jparag in #4524

mktemp

• uncomment fixed test case by @jfinkels in #4297

mv

• Update of fs_extra - address the new warnings by @sylvestre in #4320

nice

• Support legacy argument syntax for nice by @eds-collabora in #4271

nproc

• Replace num_cpus crate with thread::available_parallelism by @souzaguilhermea in #4352

od

• Remove "width = width" from format strings by @cakebaker in #4263
• Fix some minor details suggested by clippy::pedantic by @cakebaker in #4492

ptx

• Fix warning from unnecessary_join lint by @cakebaker in #4313

pwd

• Small refactor of some match expressions by @tertsdiepraam in #4508

rm

• Remove remove_dir_all dependency by @howjmay in #4340

shred

• Refactor to clean up code and reduce syscalls by @tertsdiepraam in #4493
• Enable test_shred_force on FreeBSD by @miles170 in #4523
• Fix permissions_set_readonly_false clippy error by @miles170 in #4488

sleep

• Fix parsing of multiple inputs panics on overflow, some whitespace issues ... by @Joining7943 in #4439
• Replace uucore::parse_time::from_str with fundu by @Joining7943 in #4448

stdbuf

• Get profile from the end of the path by @tertsdiepraam in #4638

stty

• Basic support for --file/-F by @VorpalBlade in #4401

tail

• Fix GNU test 'misc/tail' by @bbara in #4347
• Fix argument parsing of sleep interval by @Joining7943 in #4239
• tests/tail: Disable test_follow_with_pid on freebsd by @Joining7943 in #4307
• tail: Cargo.toml: Remove unneeded features of uucore and the nix dependency by @Joining7943 in #4376

touch

• Add underscores to long number in test by @cakebaker in #4577

timeout

• Add a test to verify that it fails as expected by @sylvestre in #4419
• Fix subprocess is never terminated by @miles170 in #4315

tr

• Remove the extra newline in stderr by @howjmay in #4339

uname

• Use the same version of platform-info as arch by @sylvestre in #4290

uniq

• Remove suppression of use_self lint by @cakebaker in #4354
• Remove strum dependency by @tertsdiepraam in #4629

uptime

• correctly calculate boot-time by @zanbaldwin in #4440

utmpx

• arch/os-independent timeval handling by @bbara in #4405

wc

• Implement --total by @cakebaker in #4695

uucore

• util: fix publish order of uucore_procs and uucore by @tertsdiepraam in #4287
• uucore: Fix #4298: Fails to build on s390x (and riscv64) by @Joining7943 in #4299
• parser: fix index out of bounds error by @papparapa in #4484
• uucore: fix help section doesn't render 3+ level headers by @piotrkwiecinski in https://git...

0.0.17

Highlights

• The minimum supported Rust version is now 1.60.
• Clap has been updated to version 4, bringing some changes in the formatting of help strings.
• cp has been gotten many small improvements that improve compatibility.
• dd has been simplified and has better compatibility.
• env now reraises signals from the child process.
• ls -l now shows more information on Windows.
• uname is now available for all supported platforms, instead of Unix-like platforms only.
• cp and mv can display a progress bar. This is an extension over GNU coreutils and inspired by advcpmv.
• There have been refactors, fixes and performance improvements in many utils, see below for details.

GNU test suite compatibility

Many utils have gotten minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. Below is a summary of the progress. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details

result	0.0.16	0.0.17	change
pass	322	338	+16
skip	49	48	-1
fail	217	204	-13
error	5	3	-2

Changes

The PR's listed below are a selection of all the contributions in this release.

General

• Bump MSRV to 1.60 by @tertsdiepraam in #3994
• Clap 4 by @tertsdiepraam in #3991
• Migrate from winapi to windows-sys by @niyaznigmatullin in #4065
• Run the toybox testsuite by @sylvestre in #4222
• Use normal use declarations to import macros by @miles170 in #4151
• Add installation page to docs with package managers by @tertsdiepraam in #4048
• Test utilities
  • Add UChild, an abstraction for std::process::Child by @Joining7943 in #4136
  • Add possibility to set timeout for UCommand and UChild. Add rstest with timeout macro to dev dependencies by @Joining7943 in #4231
  • Put #[track_caller] on assertion functions in test utils by @tertsdiepraam in #4252
• uucore
  • Add automatic conversion for nix::Errno by @orhun in #4060
  • Add prompt_yes macro by @tertsdiepraam in #4148
  • Add sprintf() function by @jfinkels in #4185
  • Add options to parse_size::Parser by @trasua in #4224

chown

• Fails when XXXX. or XXXX: is provided (when XXXX is numeric value) by @sylvestre in #4081

cp

• Move copy_directory() to its own module by @jfinkels in #3901
• Correctly copy ancestor dirs in --parents mode by @jfinkels in #4071
• cp -i --update source existing should not do anything and exit 0 by @sylvestre in #4078
• Implement --copy-contents option for fifos by @jfinkels in #3978
• Remove interactive mode message on 'no' by @sssemil in #4069
• Use sparse copy on --sparse=always by @jfinkels in #4030
• Add progress bar by @tertsdiepraam in #3903 and improved by @djedi23 in #4179 and @ctsk in #4221
• Restrict copy through dangling symlink with -f by @jfinkels in #4074
• Force copying file to itself with --backup by @jfinkels in #3966
• Make --preserve use the defaults when empty by @sssemil in #4123
• Fix cp --force --backup f f fails on macOS by @miles170 in #4166
• Preserve hard links when target already exists by @jfinkels in #4208
• Fix --verbose --parents output for both files and directories by @jfinkels in #4184
• Force link between two files that exist by @jfinkels in #4213
• Remove empty line from version output by @cakebaker in #4283
• Require preserve only certain attributes by @sssemil in #4099
• Restrict permissions when copying FIFO by @jfinkels in #4211

csplit

• Rename var to simplify format strings by @cakebaker in #4266

cut

• Add whitespace option for separating fields by @TechHara in #4232

date

• Catch panic from invalid format string by @jaggededgedjustice in #4240

dd

• Allow B as a suffix for count, seek, and skip by @jfinkels in #4137
• Create Dest enum and simpler Output struct by @jfinkels in #4134
• Don't allocate buffer if count=0 by @jfinkels in #4130
• Correctly set file size when conv=sparse by @jfinkels in #4191
• Fix rendering of SI and IEC byte counts by @jfinkels in #3653
• Fix progress line if 1 byte written by @jfinkels in #4194

env

• Reraise signal from child process by @tertsdiepraam in #4011

expr

• Multiple fixes and tests added by @rivy in #4248

factor

• Trim the input to fix some busybox results by @sylvestre in #4215

hashsum

• Warn on file not found rather than fail by @dmatos2012 in #4064
• Enable testing --no-names by @tertsdiepraam and @huijeong-kim in #4088

install

• No longer fails when target directory does not exist by @bruecke in #3950

ls

• Show more info in long format on Windows by @tertsdiepraam in #4014
• Use libc::{major, minor} to calculate device number by @SteveLauC in #4120

mktemp

• Allow default missing value by @dmatos2012 in #4091

mv

• mv -i --update source existing should not do anything and exit 0 by @sylvestre in #4078
• Add progress bar by @ctsk in #4220

numfmt

• Handle negative zero values by @cakebaker in #4076
• Allow hyphen values for --field option by @cakebaker in #4090
• Round values if precision is 0 by @cakebaker in #4089
• Allow - in field list by @cakebaker in #4094
• Allow as field separator by @cakebaker in #4096
• Add test for --field - (all fields) by @cakebaker in #4093

pr

• Simplify format strings by @cakebaker in #4264
• Add missing \ before line breaks by @cakebaker in #4273

printenv

• Weird env variable names should trigger an error. by @sylvestre in #4113

pwd

• Support the env variable POSIXLY_CORRECT by @sylvestre in #4085

rm

• GNU test rm3 now passes by @palaster in #4013

seq

• Simplify format strings by @cakebaker in #4264

sleep

• Fix argument parsing and errors by @rivy in #4268

sort

• Allow a sort mode to appear multiple times by @tertsdiepraam in #4132

split

• Implement round-robin arg to --number by @jfinkels in #3281
• Match GNU semantics for missing EOF by @andrewbaptist in #4009
• Fix "backticks are unbalanced" warnings by @cakebaker in #4181

stat

• Show more info in long format on Windows by @tertsdiepraam in #4014
• Refactor by @tertsdiepraam in #4150

sum

• Fix output of about string by @cakebaker in #4274
• Fix output when using BSD sum algo (-r) by @cakebaker in #4278

tail

• Refactor handling of warnings and early exits by @Joining7943 in #4135

touch

• Add support for some relative times by @jfinkels in #4193

uname

• build: uname is WinOS-compatible; move to 'Tier1' feature by @rivy in #4245
• change/uname ~ update and revise by @rivy in #4279

New Contributors

@huijeong-kim (https:...

0.0.16

Highlights

• The minimum supported Rust version is now 1.59.
• Many utils now return exit code 1 on usage errors instead of 2 to match GNU.
• tail has had another significant refactor with slight improvements.
• chroot returns better exit codes and supports commands with flags.
• cp supports the -H flag and handles more cases correctly.
• test supports -N, -ef, -nt & -ot and supports 128 bit integers.
• dd's argument parsing has been overhauled and is more compatible with GNU.
• There have been refactors, fixes and performance improvements in many utils, see below for details.

GNU test suite compatibility

Many utils have seen minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. Below is a summary of the progress. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details

result	0.0.15	0.0.16	change
pass	293	322	+29
skip	73	49	-24
fail	222	217	-5
error	5	5	0

Changes

The PR's listed below are a selection of all the contributions in this release.

General

• Change remaining usage codes of 2 to 1 for GNU compat by @tertsdiepraam in #3922
• Create new adaptive svg logo by @tertsdiepraam in #3892

cat

• Remove deprecated unix_socket dependency by @niyaznigmatullin in #3854

chcon

• Fix GNU tests/misc/chcon-fail.sh test by @niyaznigmatullin in #3857

chroot

• Improve support of --skip-chdir by @sylvestre in #4004
• Set exit codes to 125, 126 or 127 for errors from chroot itself by @tertsdiepraam in #3908
• Set trailing var arg by @tertsdiepraam in #3907
• Various improvements to chroot by @sylvestre in #3960

cp

• Fix cp-i GNU test by @niyaznigmatullin in #3949
• Add -H option by @niyaznigmatullin in #3971
• Assume --reflink=always on no value by @sssemil in #3992
• Correct error message on copying dir to itself by @jfinkels in #3981
• Allow removing symbolic link loop destination by @jfinkels in #3972
• Preserve permissions when copying directory and don't terminate early on inaccessible file by @jfinkels in #3973

dd

• Handle stdout redirected to seekable file by @jfinkels in #3880
• Parse operands manually via positional args by @tertsdiepraam in #3938

df

• Remove trailing spaces in rightmost column by @jfinkels in #3882

factor

• Enable union feature for smallvec by @niyaznigmatullin in #3928

ls

• Exit code 2 when IOError happened for argument by @niyaznigmatullin in #3921
• Add support for +FORMAT in timestyle by @dmatos2012 in #3988
• Align --ignore behavior with that of GNU ls by @ackerleytng in #3803

mktemp

• Respect TMPDIR environment variable by @jfinkels in #3552
• Match GNU error message on too many args by @jfinkels in #3951
• Add message for directory not found by @jfinkels in #3940

pr

• Migrate from chrono to time by @niyaznigmatullin in #3918
• Use clap to handle help & version by @cakebaker in #3904

rm

• Added write-protected check for files by @stefins in #3853
• Added descend messages for interactive mode Fixes #3817 by @palaster in #3931

split

• Add support for starting suffix numbers by @andrewbaptist in #3976

sync

• Various compatibility improvement by @sylvestre in #4003

tail

• Fix stdin redirect (#3842) by @jhscheer in #3845
• Fix tail panicking when seeking backwards by @kilpkonn in #3873
• Refactor tail by @Joining7943 in #3905
• Fix random errors for piped input on macos by @Joining7943 in #3953

test

• Add a bunch of operations by @sylvestre in #4002

New Contributors

@sssemil (#3852), @kilpkonn (#3873), @stefins (#3853), @snapdgn (#3923), @sashashura (#3980), @dmatos2012 (#3988)

Full Changelog: 0.0.15...0.0.16

0.0.15

Highlights

• stty is now partially implemented (#3672). We now finally have implementations for all the coreutils!
• tail now implements --follow and has seen many more improvements thanks to the giant refactor by @jhscheer.
• wc and sum have gotten performance improvements by @resistor.
• There have been refactors, fixes and performance improvements in many utils.

GNU test suite compatibility

Many utils have seen minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. This marks the first release where we pass more tests than we fail. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details

result	0.0.14	0.0.15	change
pass	242	293	+51
skip	73	73	0
fail	270	222	-48
error	8	5	-3

Changes

The PR's listed below are a selection of all the contributions in this release.

basename

• Simple format arguments by @niyaznigmatullin in #3736

basenc

• Fix error code on wrong usage by @niyaznigmatullin in #3743

comm

• Use NUL if delimiter is empty by @cakebaker in #3701

cp

• Correctly copy attributes of a dangling symbolic link by @jfinkels in #3692
• Implement --sparse flag by @pimzero in #3766
• Make --b=simple protective of source by @philgebhardt in #3647
• Truncate destination when --reflink is set by @pimzero in #3759
• Fix test_copy_through_dangling_symlink_no_dereference_permissions by @niyaznigmatullin in #3789

cut

• Fix argument parsing for the delimiter by @jhscheer in #3607

dd

• Error message of invalid args is matched with GNU by @Fuchczyk in #3831
• Fix output issues by @patricksjackson in #3610
• Only print concise byte counts if count is sufficiently large by @jfinkels in #3617
• Reuse buffer for the most common cases by @patricksjackson in #3600
• Fix broken pipe in test_bytes_oseek_bytes_trunc_oflag by @niyaznigmatullin in #3797

df

• Better error message when executed in a chroot without /proc by @lendandgit in #3602
• Fix output if input path is device name by @cakebaker in #3682
• Fix rounding behavior in humanreadable mode by @cakebaker in #3554
• Read block size from env vars by @cakebaker in #3504
• Show "total" label in correct column by @jfinkels in #3579
• Trim size header in tests by @cakebaker in #3582
• Implement the --sync flag for df by @anastygnome in #3592

dircolors

• Add support for stdin by @jhscheer in #3591
• Escape ' and : by @cakebaker in #3639
• Implement --print-ls-colors by @cakebaker in #3566
• Make -b & -c args overridable by @cakebaker in #3569
• Update error message by @cakebaker in #3596

dirname

• Add missing "\n\" to usage message by @cakebaker in #3570

du

• Remove unnecessary spaces from help by @cakebaker in #3622
• Add parse_glob module and update du to use parse_glob by @ackerleytng in #3754

expand

• Add support for --tabs shortcuts by @cakebaker in #3612
• Allow multiple tabs args by @cakebaker in #3585
• Show error if --tabs arg has invalid chars by @cakebaker in #3583
• Allow specifier only with last value by @cakebaker in #3595
• Handle too large tab size by @cakebaker in #3594
• Remove empty line from error message by @cakebaker in #3577
• Simplify signature of expand_shortcuts() by @cakebaker in #3644

hashsum

• Isolate non-"GNU Coreutils" options by @str4d in #3593
• Fix the -c usage by @sylvestre in #3816

install

• Verbose messages shows ginstall as command by @sylvestre in #3651
• Fix install -C test by @niyaznigmatullin in #3663
• Make install -V show the filename by @ElijahSink in #3657

ln

• Improve error messages compatibility by @niyaznigmatullin in #3730
• Implement -L -P to make tests/ln/hard-to-sym.sh work by @sylvestre in #3563
• Symlink --force, src and dst are same file by @niyaznigmatullin in #3724

ls, dir & vdir

• Add already listed message by @niyaznigmatullin in #3707
• Fix double quoting when color is enabled by @tertsdiepraam in #3590
• Implement --zero by @pimzero in #3746
• Remove trailing space when using the comma format (-m) by @anastygnome in #3615
• Silently ignore -T option by @Stonks3141 in #3718
• Forbid octal numbers for width parameter by @Ganneff in #3613

mktemp

• Change directory permission after creation by @353fc443 in #3471
• Combine --tmpdir and subdirectory info by @jfinkels in #3568
• Error on empty --suffix in some situations by @jfinkels in #3599
• Exit with status 1 on usage errors by @jfinkels in #3578
• Include suffix in error message by @jfinkels in #3551
• Only replace last contiguous block of Xs by @jfinkels in #3586
• Respect POSIXLY_CORRECT env var when parsing args by @weijunji in #3604
• Simplify file path parameter logic by @jfinkels in #3573

mv

• Fix error when moving directory to itself by @Fuchczyk in #3809

numfmt

• Implement --format by @cakebaker in #3751
• Implement --to-unit & --from-unit by @cakebaker in #3705
• Preserve trailing zeros by @cakebaker in #3764
• Don't round floats if --from is none by @cakebaker in #3742
• Reject suffix if unit is none by @cakebaker in #3716
• Remove duplicate default hints from help by @cakebaker in #3696
• Show invalid suffix error for i suffix by @cakebaker in #3732
• Show error if --padding is zero by @cakebaker in #3686
• Show error if i suffix is missing by @cakebaker in #3713

paste

• Implement -z flag by @cakebaker in #3659

readlink

• Improve GNU compatibility by @niyaznigmatullin in #3826
• Symlink loop handling by @niyaznigmatullin in #3717

realpath

• Relative options by @niyaznigmatullin in #3710
• Improve symlink handling by @niyaznigmatullin in #3703
• Add --no-symlinks alias by @cakebaker in #3681

rm

• Fix help text mistakenly being used as the long option by @tertsdiepraam in #3670

shuf

• Add missing spaces to about text by @cakebaker in #3677
• Improve performance by @Garfield96 in #3642

sort

• Wait when SIGINT was raised for the program to finish properly by @niyaznigmatullin in #3801

sum

• Speed up sum by using reasonable read buffer sizes. by @resistor in #3741

split

• Don't overwrite files by @andrewbaptist in #3719
• Set names for arg values by @cakebaker in #3541
• Don't skip chucking when the chunk size is a divisor of the buffer size by @resistor in #3800

stty

• Initial implementation by @tertsdiepraam in https:/...

0.0.14

Highlights

• Minimum supported Rust version is now 1.56 and we use the 2021 edition.
• Android support has been fixed and is now checked in the CI thanks to @jtracey.
• df has seen major improvements due to incredible work by @cakebaker.
• Path completions on modern shells (like zsh and fish) now work properly.
• The dir and vdir utilities where added as aliases for ls and ls -l, respectively.
• Many utils have seen minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details

Changes

The PR's listed below change the user-facing behaviour of the utils. It is a selection of all the contributions in this release.

General

• MSRV 1.56 by @tertsdiepraam in #3350
• Rust Edition 2021 by @tertsdiepraam in #3368
• Fix Android support by @jtracey in #3396
• docs: Show supported platforms for each util by @tertsdiepraam in #3374, #3385
• docs: Don't download the tldr archive automatically by @tertsdiepraam in #3415
• docs: Require a feature to build by @tertsdiepraam in #3444
• Clap value hints by @tertsdiepraam in #3524

chown

• Allow setting arbitrary numeric user ID by @jfinkels in #3438

cp

• Do not dereference symlink even when dangling - fix issue #3364 by @anastygnome in #3459

date

• Set names for arg values by @cakebaker in #3545

df

• Show error if same type is included & excluded by @cakebaker in #3369
• Show error when file argument does not exist by @jfinkels in #3376
• Fix too low values in I* columns by @cakebaker in #3365
• Fix calculation of IUse% by @cakebaker in #3387
• Fix incorrect whitespace between columns by @cakebaker in #3386
• -h -H shouldn't cause an error #3366 by @gmnsii in #3414
• Fix broken "test_df_output_overridden" test by @cakebaker in #3428
• Fix File column width for unicode filenames by @cakebaker in #3429
• Show error if all types are excluded by @cakebaker in #3418
• Respect -t arg when specific file is provided by @cakebaker in #3408
• Allow sizes with a suffix for --block-size by @cakebaker in #3441
• Show "block-size argument too large" error by @cakebaker in #3458
• Fix Size column header by @cakebaker in #3456
• Set min width of Used column to 5 by @cakebaker in #3480
• Set names for arg values & add missing space by @cakebaker in #3490
• Fix Size header for multiples of 1000 & 1024 by @cakebaker in #3499
• Use blocksize of 512 if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set by @cakebaker in #3482
• Show error if provided block size is zero by @cakebaker in #3514
• Test default blocksize in POSIX mode by @cakebaker in #3522
• Round up values if block size is specified by @cakebaker in #3526
• Fix incorrect rounding of size header by @cakebaker in #3530

du

• Return non zero error code when dealing with permissions errors by @sylvestre in #3382
• Add support for --exclude and --exclude-from by @sylvestre in #3381

env

• Add program signal messages by @ndd7xv in #3290

hashsum

• Add --no-names option from official b3sum tool by @pothos in #3361

install

• Support of -d dir/. to match GNU's by @sylvestre in #3353
• When install --strip-program=foor fails, remove the target file by @sylvestre in #3419
• Verbose - list all created directories by @sylvestre in #3420

kill

• Accept process group with negative id by @tertsdiepraam in #3501

ls, dir & vdir

• Implement --group-directories-first by @thomasqueirozb in #3550
• Add dir and vdir utils by @gmnsii in #3405

mkdir

• Fix a clippy warning on clippy::ptr-arg by @sylvestre in #3393
• Fixed not respecting set umask by @pyoky in #3150

mktemp

• Respect path given in template argument by @jfinkels in #3465
• Error on path separator in template prefix by @jfinkels in #3512
• Fix error msg when suffix has path sep. by @jfinkels in #3543
• Correct error message on absolute path by @jfinkels in #3521

mv

• Add OverwriteMode match in specific case by @sudosmile in #3383
• Move the tests in a separate function by @sylvestre in #3390
• Trigger an error when doing mv dir1 dir2 dir2 by @sylvestre in #3392
• Allow a single source with --target-directory by @ilkecan in #3529

printf

• Default left-justify integer conversion to 1 width by @hbina in #3061

ptx

• Implement breakfile option by @mike-kfed in #3455

rm

• Rename none by --interactive=never to fix ../gnu/tests/rm/i-never.sh by @sylvestre in #3356

seq

• Use usage error where appropriate by @jfinkels in #3539

stat

• Add support to read a filename redirected to stdin by @crazystylus in #3280
• Improve handling of stdin/fifo (fix #3485) by @jhscheer in #3498

tty

• Should not return 2 when --help is used by @sylvestre in #3367

uname

• Hide processor and hwplatform options by @LevitatingBusinessMan in #3537

uniq

• Fix almost all GNU tests by @tertsdiepraam in #3417

New Contributors

@pothos (#3361), @marv (#3384), @sudosmile (#3383), @pyoky (#3150), @gmnsii (#3405), @rtzoeller (#3443), @anastygnome (#3459), @naveensrinivasan (#3453), @ilkecan (#3529)

Full Changelog: 0.0.13...0.0.14

0.0.13

This is a big release with 276 new PR's merged!

The highlights of this release are:

• Mininum supported Rust version is now 1.54.
• Many improvements and fixes in many utils. In particular, cp, dd, df, split and tr have gotten very large improvements and are much more compatible with GNU.
• Online user documentation featuring installation instructions, descriptions, flags, options and examples.
• We now use clap 3, which gives the --help output a new look and enables abbreviations of long arguments. For example:

ls --color    # already worked pre 0.0.13
ls --col      # any unambiguous shorthand now also works

Changes

The PR's listed below change the user-facing behaviour of the utils. It is just a small selection of all the contributions in this release.

General

• Clap 3 by @tertsdiepraam in #2863
• Infer unambiguous long arguments in clap by @tertsdiepraam in #2936
• User documentation by @tertsdiepraam in #2897, #3152, #3134
• Include license text in all published crates by @davide125 in #3131

uucore

• Allow backup suffix with hyphen value by @tertsdiepraam in #2997
• Error on negative interval in parse_time::from_str() by @jfinkels in #3292
• No uppercase suffixes in parse_time by @jfinkels in #3315
• Don't panic when canonicalizing a nonexistent path by @water-ghosts in #3103
• Fix parse_size to use u64 rather than usize for better 32-bit support by @omertuc in #3084

cp

• Override args instead of having them conflict by @tertsdiepraam in #2998
• Avoid following a destination symlink with -P by @refi64 in #3101
• Create backup before hardlink by @water-ghosts in #3033
• Fail when copying a directory to a file by @water-ghosts in #3044
• Only allow directory for -t by @shoriminimoe in #3027
• Support copying FIFOs with -r by @water-ghosts in #3032
• Don't panic when calling cp -a with a nonexistent file by @water-ghosts in #2960
• Avoid infinite recursion when source and destinations are same while using cp -R by @Narasimha1997 in #3018

dd

• block/unblock on ebcdic/ascii conversions by @jfinkels in #2909
• Correct behavior when status=noxfer by @jfinkels in #2915
• Support seek=N when destination is stdout by @jfinkels in #2911
• Add support for 'b' and 'x' multipliers in numeric arguments by @jfinkels in #3028
• Allow multiple instances of arguments by @iovanom in #3021
• Correct order and phrasing of truncated record by @jfinkels in #3154
• Correctly account for partial record written by @jfinkels in #3129
• Create ConversionMode to simplify conversion, blocking, and unblocking by @jfinkels in #3293
• Don't error when outfile is /dev/null by @jfinkels in #3148
• Implement iseek + oseek flags by @chordtoll in #3256
• Make status=progress rewrite once/sec by @ndd7xv in #3078
• Pad partial record with spaces in some cases by @jfinkels in #3156
• Remove spurious zero multiplier warning by @jfinkels in #3128
• Show warning if skipping past end of input by @jfinkels in #3066
• Show warning when using 0x size multiplier by @jfinkels in #3085
• Truncate to specified seek length by @jfinkels in #3076

df

• Adds support for mount path prefix matching and input path by @crazystylus in #3161
• --output w/o "=" doesn't expect further args by @cakebaker in #3327
• Add support for --total option by @jfinkels in #3197
• Always produce the same order in output table by @jfinkels in #3126
• Always round up usage percentage (#3208) by @cakebaker in #3230
• Correctly scale bytes by block size by @jfinkels in #3182
• Fix block size header for multiples of 1024 by @jfinkels in #3191
• Fix calculation of Use% column by @cakebaker in #3309
• Fix calculation of Use% in "total" row by @cakebaker in #3347
• Fix panic when using -x argument (#3257) by @cakebaker in #3258
• Implement the --output command-line argument by @jfinkels in #3176, #3322, #3323
• Implement the File column by @jfinkels in #3294
• Omit reserved filesystem blocks in "Available" by @cakebaker in #3270
• Remove unused "--direct" option by @cakebaker in #3263
• Some option changes by @xxyzz in #3127

echo

• Allow echo with escapes to work with \0 by @Dr-Emann in #2977

hashsum

• Added b2sum and b3sum utilities by @palaster in #3164
• Add BLAKE3 to Hashing Algorithms by @DestroyerXyz in #3108

head

• Add ---presume-input-pipe parameter by @DevSabb in #3345
• Don't add trailing newline to end of file that didn't originally have one by @jfinkels in #2957

install

• Better error messages when handling invalid arguments by @ndd7xv in #3187

join

• Print unsorted line in error message by @cohosh in #2899
• Fix default check order behaviour by @cohosh in #2908
• Add support for -t '\0' by @jtracey in #2881
• "Support" field numbers larger than usize::MAX by @jtracey in #2882
• Add support for non-unicode field separators by @jtracey in #2902
• Improve performance by @jtracey in #3092

ln

• Make the tests/ln/hard-backup.sh test work by @sylvestre in #3340
• Pass tests/ln/backup-1.sh & improvement in the error messages by @sylvestre in #3346

ls

• Add new optional arguments to --classify flag by @abhishekc-sharma in #3041
• Add proper quotes on symlink with --quoting-style=shell-escape by @sylvestre in #3317
• Fix display of bad file descriptor errors by @kimono-koans in #2875
• Fix display of inodes and add allocation size feature by @kimono-koans in #3052
• When -aA are provided, the order matters by @sylvestre in #3285

mkdir

• Add support of mkdir -p foo/. by @sylvestre in #3311
• Recursive reporting of created directories in verbose mode by @353fc443 in #3217

nproc

• Add the full support of OMP_THREAD_LIMIT by @sylvestre in #3286
• Improve the GNU compat by @sylvestre in #3248
• Make tests/misc/nproc-override.sh pass by implementing OMP_NUM_THREADS=X,Y,Z by @sylvestre in #3296

paste

• Fixes and cleanup by @Dr-Emann in #2982

pinky

• Fix off-by-one in GECOS parsing by @jtracey in #3155

pr

• Move from getopts to clap and fix heuristic for -n by @tertsdiepraam in #3185

printf

• Update %g formatting to match GNU by @water-ghosts in #3087
• Fix printf sci notation round up by @nickd0 in #3116
• Support leading zeroes with %0n formatting by @water-ghosts in #3070
• Use clap default help and version by @ndd7xv in #3067

realpath

• Error when resolved symlink is absolute and ENOENT by @hbina in #3037

seq

• Add -f FORMAT option by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uuti...

0.0.12

Due to problems with stdbuf, the previous release (0.0.9) required a patch to work and no binary artifacts were generated. This release fixes that issue.

Changes

These are selected user-facing changes since 0.0.8.

• The minimum supported Rust version is now 1.54.
• The version numbers of the utils, the coreutils binary, uucore and uucore_procs are now synced. Hence the jump from 0.0.9 to 0.012.
• All utils now use UResult due to incredible work by @jfinkels, who contributed over 50 PRs for this to happen, with additional contributions by @thomasqueirozb, @Smicry and @E3uka. This change is mostly invisible to users, but does lead to more consistent error messages now and in the future.

cp

• Fix pre-write permission change by @kimono-koans in #2769
• Handle edge cases when dest is a symlink by @miDeb in #2610

env

• Don't panic when name is empty by @thomasqueirozb in #2731

join

• Add -z option by @jtracey in #2880
• Operate on bytes instead of Strings by @jtracey in #2851

ls

• Add possible value for --color= by @equal-l2 in #2738
• Reduce binary size by removing regex crate by @kimono-koans in #2781
• Fix newline when only dirs in base directory by @kimono-koans in #2853
• Fix padding for dangling links in non-Long formats by @kimono-koans in #2856
• Fix device display by @kimono-koans in #2855

more

• Add next-line and prev-line command by @E3uka in #2771

mv

• Fix bug: Should be able to stat files, but not able to mv if source and target are the same by @kimono-koans in #2763

numfmt

• Implement --suffix option by @sbentmar in #2841

rm

• Allow -r flag to be specified multiple times by @kevinburke in #2732
• Silently accepts ---presume-input-tty by @hbina in #2532

seq

• Use BigDecimal to represent floats by @jfinkels in #2698
• Correct fixed-width spacing for inf sequences by @jfinkels in #2740

split

• Add --verbose option by @jfinkels in #2872
• Correct filename creation algorithm by @jfinkels in #2859

tail

• Improve error handling when file not found by @jfinkels in #2886
• Implement -<number> flag by @Smicry in #2747

New Contributors

• @kevinburke made their first contribution in #2732
• @palfrey made their first contribution in #2734
• @ybc37 made their first contribution in #2766
• @E3uka made their first contribution in #2771
• @refi64 made their first contribution in #2778
• @sbentmar made their first contribution in #2841
• @moko256 made their first contribution in #2858

Full Changelog: 0.0.8...0.0.12

0.0.9

Improve the release doc

0.0.8

improve the publish script

0.0.7

fix the base32 dep