📦 Rust Coreutils 0.0.25 Release:

We're thrilled to announce version 0.0.25. We added +15 GNU passing tests since our last update! More and more programs have a full compatibility with the GNU testsuite. The current list is: base64, basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, dirname, expand, fold, groups, join, ln, mktemp, nice, nl, nproc, paste, pathchk, printenv, realpath, shuf, sleep, split, sync, unexpand, uniq, wc and yes.

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GNU test suite compatibility

Here's how version 0.0.25 compares to the previous release - running GNU/Coreutils 9.4:

Result	0.0.24	0.0.25	Change 0.0.24 to 0.0.25	% Total 0.0.24	% Total 0.0.25	% Change 0.0.24 to 0.0.25
Pass	422	437	+15	69.87%	72.35%	+2.48%
Skip	50	50	0	8.28%	8.28%	0.00%
Fail	132	117	-15	21.85%	19.37%	-2.48%
Error	0	0	0	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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What's Changed

base32/base64/basenc

• implement and test proper flag parsing by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6007

basename

• Fix handling of repeated flags/arguments by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6018

cat

• Handle all flags correctly by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6034

chcon

• Handle repeated flags and overrides between --no-XXX and --XXX by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6039

chmod

• Fix chmod -c --reference reporting when no change is made by @mtimaN in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6016
• Fix handling of preserve root flag and error messages by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6042

cksum

• permit repeated flags, handle overrides correctly, implement base64 output by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6041
• enable encoding feature by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6095

cp

• remove lint exceptions by @kralo in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5891
• improve the support of --attributes-only by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6051
• Split the copy_file function a bit by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6056
• fix flaky test test_cp_arg_interactive_update, document adjacent bug by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6020

csplit

• use printf functionality from uucore by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5958
• adjust the error message to match GNU's by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6090
• remove crate_name attribute by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6091

cut

• set exit code to 1 if directory is specified by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5886
• refactor delimiters OsString handling by @zhitkoff in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6072
• allow non utf8 characters for delimiters by @zhitkoff in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6037
• show error for multiple mode args (-b, -c, -f) by @wolimst in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5962

dd

• parse big numbers and return u64::MAX by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5901
• fail on missing number in count, fix #5904 by @sudhackar in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5920
• misc gnu test by @matrixhead in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6084
• fix flaky test_final_stats_unspec by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6001
• treat arg as bytes if it contains a 'B' by @matrixhead in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6050
• fix gnu test not-rewound.sh by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6088

df

• switch from u64 to u128 to handle fs with large inodes nr by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6071

du

• adapt error message to match GNU's by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5916
• adjust one of the GNU error message as ours is better by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6085

echo

• do not infer long args by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5911

env

• support string args by "-S", "-vS" or "--split-strings" by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5801
• Fix/findings for env string args by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6105

expand

• Continue work when one of given files doesn't exist by @D9nni in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5873
• make tab explicit in test by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5875
• do not ignore invalid UTF-8 by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5987

factor

• remove clippy exceptions by reformatting "unreadable literals" by @kralo in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5890
• rename input parameter by @kralo in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5892
• enable a debug_assert! statement by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5995

fmt

• Make sure the goal is always positive when given a positive width by @sargas in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6094
• fail if goal is bigger than default width by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6096

hashsum

• also escape/unescape files with checks by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5868

install

• invalid link at destination by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5851

ln

• fix help text by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5977

ls

• fix "unused variable" warning on Redox by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5931
• test_ls_allocation_size fails on filesystem f2fs (android) by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6076
• rename chrono::Duration to chrono::TimeDelta by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5970

more

• Disable raw mode before exiting if a panic occurs by @Ideflop in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5914
• Implement argument pattern by @Ideflop in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5966
• handle errors with multiple files by @Ludmuterol in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4997
• fix two incorrect tests by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6104

numfmt

• remove clap workaround by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5986

od

• disable failing test_od::test_f16() for android CI by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5984
• re-enable f16 test with newer AVD system image by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6099

printf

• pad unsigned numbers properly by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5955
• Make operate on bytes instead of strings by @RenjiSann in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6028
• '%0c' and '%0s' should fail by @RenjiSann in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6032

pr

• use chrono instead of time in tests #5972 by @biplab5464 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5973
• Check the correct timestamp in test_with_pr_core_utils_tests by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6010
• relax some error messages by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6087

seq

• fix about text not found by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5949

shuf

• Treat empty file as zero elements instead of one empty string by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5979
• Refuse repeating zero lines by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6011
• include all echo args, not just the last by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5978
• Fix OOM crash for huge number ranges by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5980
• add missing word to BENCHMARKING.md by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5996
• Fix off-by-one errors in range handling by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6014
• treat -e as a flag, not as a multi-value arg by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5989
• Do not read input when -n0 is given by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5990

sort

• fix incorrectly placed "}" in test by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6064

split

• fix android memory kill in split by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5940
• fix error message shown if file doesn't exist by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5909

stat

• Refactor to remove #[allow(clippy::cognitive_complexity)] #5881 by @biplab5464 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5924
• should fail without arguments #5928 by @biplab5464 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5935
• use chrono instead of time in fsext by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5934
• add 0xDE flag to support zfs file system by @hanbings in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6101

tsort

• drastically reduce memory copies by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5969

tty

• fix for Ctrl-D when stdin is a terminal by @zhitkoff in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6059

truncate

• correctly handle file (non-)creation by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6108

uname

• Refactor into public fns for Nushell by @dmatos2012 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5921

uniq

• pass remaining GNU tests by @zhitkoff in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5994
• Fix flaky test gnu_tests by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6017
• use concat! in tests for better readability by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6022

CI

• Android disable mirror selection by @kralo in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5894
• Android delete AVD lockfile when running from cached image by @kralo in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5917
• Add Android x86_64 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5843
• github action: run on native m1 - and execute the tests by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5923
• CI Android: set environmental variable for BACKTRACE to right value by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5965
• run CICD workflow on tag creation by @malt3 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5971
• ci:android stabilize and improve android github actions by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5939
• use latest version of cspell by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5947
• android disk space issue by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5943
• tests/common/util.rs: add cfg(feature = "env") by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6044
• deny.toml: add redox_syscall to skip list by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6066
• Android CI: workaround: run builds with retry by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5993
• deny.toml: remove deprecated keys, opt-in to v2 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6065
• test utilities: easy way to simulate terminal context by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5869
• ci: use codecov token in CICD/GnuTests workflows by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5938

Documentation

• Adjust the link to the doc by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6093
• docs: add paragraph about yocto recipe by @Ecordonnier in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5918/pull/5919
• doc: fixed benchmark table by @SamuelLarkin in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5936

Security

• fuzzing: use LC_ALL instead of LC_COLLATE by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5889
• fuzzing: set LC_ALL=C when running GNU printf by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5983
• parser: if closing square bracket not found, stop looking for it again by @cj-zoltan-kiss in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6036

Various improvements

• Clippy suggestions by @kralo in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5895
• uucore: fix "X is never used" warnings on Redox by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5932
• lint: fix lints of new Rust version by @Krysztal112233 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6102
• cargo: rename config to config.toml by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5954
• added shebang to run python scripts by @thesayfulla in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6098
• clippy: fix warnings introduced by Rust 1.76 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5959
• Fix clippy warnings by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6052
• tests: Harden two tests, prevent 4 flaky tests (cat, numfmt, sort, split, tee) by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6000
• Fix/flaky split round robin limited fds by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6043
• Fix "item x imported redundantly" warnings by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5988
• cargo: fix feature = "cargo-clippy" deprecation by @rex4539 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6027
• Fix/flaky timeout kill subprocess by @cre4ture in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6061
• Fix two "item x is imported redundantly" warnings by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6077
• pr/chgrp: fix warnings by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6054
• Un-Ignore two tests that fail for nonsense reasons by @BenWiederhake in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5997

dependency updates

• Bump wild from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5899
• chore(deps): update rust crate chrono to ^0.4.33 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5880
• chore(deps): update vmactions/freebsd-vm action to v1.0.6 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5887
• chore(deps): update rust crate itertools to 0.12.1 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5913
• chore(deps): update mozilla-actions/sccache-action action to v0.0.4 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
• chore(deps): update codecov/codecov-action action to v4 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5926
• chore(deps): update rust crate libc to 0.2.153 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5927
• chore(deps): update rust crate exacl to 0.12.0 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5937
• chore(deps): update rust crate tempfile to 3.10.0 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5948
• chore(deps): update rust crate unicode-segmentation to 1.11.0 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5953
• chore(deps): update rust crate num-traits to 0.2.18 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5956
• chore(deps): update rust crate chrono to ^0.4.34 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5967
• chore(deps): update rust crate textwrap to 0.16.1 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5985
• chore(deps): update rust crate tempfile to 3.10.1 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6023
• chore(deps): update rust crate half to 2.4 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6021
• chore(deps): update rust crate rayon to 1.9 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6026
• chore(deps): update rust crate walkdir to 2.5 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6038
• chore(deps): update softprops/action-gh-release action to v2 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6049
• chore(deps): update rust crate blake3 to 1.5.1 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6057
• chore(deps): update rust crate regex to 1.10.4 by @renovate in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6107
• Bump smallvec from 1.13.0 to 1.13.1 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5874
• Bump shlex from 1.1.0 to 1.3.0 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5871
• Bump mio from 0.8.10 to 0.8.11 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6045
• Bump chrono to 0.4.35 & replace usage of deprecated functions by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6047
• Bump nix from 0.27 to 0.28 & fix issues due to API changes by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6055
• Bump redox_syscall from 0.4 to 0.5 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6068

New Contributors

• @kralo made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5890
• @harshRn made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5897
• @Ecordonnier made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5918
• @SamuelLarkin made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5936
• @BaherSalama made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5945
• @wolimst made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5962
• @BenWiederhake made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5979
• @rex4539 made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6027
• @ysthakur made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/5951
• @matrixhead made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6050
• @cj-zoltan-kiss made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6036
• @Krysztal112233 made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6092
• @thesayfulla made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6098
• @hanbings made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/6101

Full Changelog: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/compare/0.0.24...0.0.25