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

chown

• Allow setting arbitrary numeric user ID by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3438

cp

• Do not dereference symlink even when dangling - fix issue #3364 by @anastygnome in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3459

date

• Set names for arg values by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3545

df

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

du

• Return non zero error code when dealing with permissions errors by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3382
• Add support for --exclude and --exclude-from by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3381

env

• Add program signal messages by @ndd7xv in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3290

hashsum

• Add --no-names option from official b3sum tool by @pothos in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3361

install

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

kill

• Accept process group with negative id by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3501

ls, dir & vdir

• Implement --group-directories-first by @thomasqueirozb in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3550
• Add dir and vdir utils by @gmnsii in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3405

mkdir

• Fix a clippy warning on clippy::ptr-arg by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3393
• Fixed not respecting set umask by @pyoky in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3150

mktemp

• Respect path given in template argument by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3465
• Error on path separator in template prefix by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3512
• Fix error msg when suffix has path sep. by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3543
• Correct error message on absolute path by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3521

mv

• Add OverwriteMode match in specific case by @sudosmile in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3383
• Move the tests in a separate function by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3390
• Trigger an error when doing mv dir1 dir2 dir2 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3392
• Allow a single source with --target-directory by @ilkecan in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3529

printf

• Default left-justify integer conversion to 1 width by @hbina in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3061

ptx

• Implement breakfile option by @mike-kfed in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3455

rm

• Rename none by --interactive=never to fix ../gnu/tests/rm/i-never.sh by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3356

seq

• Use usage error where appropriate by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3539

stat

• Add support to read a filename redirected to stdin by @crazystylus in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3280
• Improve handling of stdin/fifo (fix #3485) by @jhscheer in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3498

tty

• Should not return 2 when --help is used by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3367

uname

• Hide processor and hwplatform options by @LevitatingBusinessMan in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3537

uniq

• Fix almost all GNU tests by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3417

New Contributors

@pothos (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3361), @marv (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3384), @sudosmile (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3383), @pyoky (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3150), @gmnsii (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3405), @rtzoeller (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3443), @anastygnome (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3459), @naveensrinivasan (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3453), @ilkecan (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3529)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/compare/0.0.13...0.0.14