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diffutils-3.8 released [stable]

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From: Hoi lam Poon <gillcovid19 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: diffutils-3.8 released [stable]
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 00:29:59 -0700

你們有沒有批準在你網站上使用？你知不知道GNU是私人而不公開，只有我可以使用，因為全是專利及第三方，你們最後會被我訴訟，而且你不知道有法律效力？

2021-08-01 19:15 GMT-07:00, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>:
> This is to announce diffutils-3.8, a stable release.
>
> There have been 47 commits by 5 people in the 2.6 years since 3.7.
>
> See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
> The following people contributed changes to this release:
>
>   Bruno Haible (2)
>   Dave Odell (1)
>   Jim Meyering (23)
>   KO Myung-Hun (1)
>   Paul Eggert (20)
>
> Jim [on behalf of the diffutils maintainers]
> ==================================================================
>
> Here is the GNU diffutils home page:
>     http://gnu.org/s/diffutils/
>
> For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=diffutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v3.8
> or run this command from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
>   git shortlog v3.7..v3.8
>
> To summarize the 2453 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
> from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
>   git checkout v3.8
>   git submodule summary v3.7
>
> Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz
>   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz.sig
>
> Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz
>   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils-3.8.tar.xz.sig
>
> [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
> .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
> and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>
>   gpg --verify diffutils-3.8.tar.xz.sig
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> then run this command to import it:
>
>   gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE
>
> and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
> This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>   Autoconf 2.71
>   Automake 1.16d
>   Gnulib v0.1-4758-gb48905892
>
> NEWS
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 3.8 (2021-08-01) [stable]
>
> ** Incompatible changes
>
>   diff no longer treats a closed stdin as representing an absent file
>   in usage like 'diff --new-file - foo <&-'.  This feature was rarely
>   if ever used and was not portable to POSIX platforms that reopen
>   stdin on exec, such as SELinux if the process underwent an AT_SECURE
>   transition, or HP-UX even if not setuid.
>   [bug#33965 introduced in 2.8]
>
> ** Bug fixes
>
>   diff and related programs no longer get confused if stdin, stdout,
>   or stderr are closed.  Previously, they sometimes opened files into
>   file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 and then mistakenly did I/O with them
>   that was intended for stdin, stdout, or stderr.
>   [bug#33965 present since "the beginning"]
>
>   cmp, diff and sdiff no longer treat negative command-line
>   option-arguments as if they were large positive numbers.
>   [bug#35256 introduced in 2.8]
>
> Also announced here:
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10031
>

Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#49824: diffutils-3.8 released [stable]
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:10:43 -0700

On 8/2/21 12:29 AM, Hoi lam Poon wrote:
> 你們有沒有批準在你網站上使用？你知不知道GNU是私人而不公開，只有我可以使用，因為全是專利及第三方，你們最後會被我訴訟，而且你不知道有法律效力？

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