Subject: bug#24227: new snapshot available: diffutils-3.4.8-c06c

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 18:30:35 -0700

I expect to make a new release soon, so please test this snapshot.

Other than the two bug fixes, this also includes new dash-excluding
code in init.sh's shell-selection logic, so let us know if you find a
system for which /bin/dash was the only usable shell for
diffutils-3.4. Now, that code will find no usable shell and "skip"
nearly all tests.

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Here are the two NEWS entries-to-be for the upcoming diffutils-3.5:

** Bug fixes

  diff3 no longer malfunctions due to use-after-free [bug introduced in 3.4]
  diff --color no longer colorizes when TERM=dumb

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diffutils snapshot:
  http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz      1.4 MB
  http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.4.8-c06c.tar.xz

Changes in diffutils since v3.4:

Bastian Beischer (1):
      diff3: fix heap use-after-free; add minimal diff3 test coverage

Jim Meyering (7):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      diff: disable colorization for TERM=dumb
      maint: diff3: remove an unreachable statement
      build: ignore texinfo build artifacts
      maint: require that commit messages be of a certain form
      diff3: fix leaks, for real
      gnulib: update to latest

Changes in gnulib since v3.4:

* gnulib e4f1a4a...1eb82ad (5):
  > update from texinfo
  > parse-datetime: add optional debug printing
  > update from texinfo
  > tests/init.sh: exclude dash with bad "local" semantics
  > update from texinfo