coreutils, branch v9.6

version 9.6

2025-01-17T14:43:22Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2025-01-17T13:33:39Z

Mainly to avoid make dist-check failure with --disable-nls

build: fix compilation error on CentOS 8 Stream

2025-01-16T22:16:53Z

* configure.ac (USE_AVX512_CRC32): Set to false if the function _mm512_set_epi8 does not exist.

tests: tail-c.sh: avoid failure on Linux kernels <= 2

2025-01-16T21:05:34Z

tests/tail/tail-c.sh: Exclude older kernels from timeout failure.

ls: Fix compilation error on CentOS 6

2025-01-16T20:11:14Z

* src/ls.c (XATTR_NAME_CAPS): Define fallback.

sort: fix --debug buffer overrun

2025-01-16T17:21:42Z

* src/sort.c (debug_key): Fix undefined behavior when a key ends before it starts. Problem reported by Bruno Haible .

tests: avoid false failure with replaced readdir

2025-01-16T14:58:02Z

* tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh: Simulate EIO rather than ENOENT, as gnulib absorbs the latter since commit 5a2d28df.

ls: suppress ENOTSUP errors on virtiofs

2025-01-16T12:09:43Z

* gnulib: Update to latest to pick up commit caf76886. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

tests: misc/write-errors.sh: increase memory limit

2025-01-15T22:50:05Z

* tests/head/head-c.sh: Use a larger VM limit to avoid mem allocation failures, which were seen on CheriBSD.

tests: head: avoid false failure on some systems

2025-01-15T22:43:18Z

* tests/head/head-c.sh: Pass a more similar operation to get_min_ulimit_v_, so we get a more appropriate limit. This was seen to be significant with CheriBSD.