findutils @ Savannah: GNU findutils 4.11.0 released
This is to announce findutils-4.11.0, a stable release.
This release follows the recent POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1-2024) changes,
especially to mention the new behavior of ‘find -mount’ vs. ‘find -xdev’,
as well as a lot of documentation improvements.
See the NEWS below for more details.
GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match
certain criteria and for performing various operations on them.
Findutils includes the programs “find”, “xargs” and “locate”.
More information about findutils is available at:
https://www.gnu.o … ftware/findutils/
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There have been 186 commits by 10 people in the – sigh – 25 months since 4.10.0:
Bernhard Voelker (77) Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1)
Christoph Anton Mitterer (1) Collin Funk (5)
Dave (1) G. Branden Robinson (42)
James Youngman (55) Luk303241305241 Zaoral (1)
danny mcClanahan (1) raf (2)
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72
Automake 1.17
M4 1.4.19
Gnulib v1.0-3131-ga575239e47
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Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
Have a nice day,
Bernhard Voelker & James Youngman [on behalf of the GNU findutils maintainers]
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NEWS
- Noteworthy changes in release 4.11.0 (2026-07-11) [stable]
** Bug Fixes
find no longer crashes when diagnosing a directory cycle (without a symlink
being involved pointing to a parent directory).
[Bug present since the FTS implementation.]
‘find -used’ now behaves correctly on OpenBSD 7.8 with difftime(3) underflow
bug in the C library (already fixed there) when the access time of a file is
identical to its change time. [#68264]
‘find -ignore_readdir_race’ now better handles races between FTS reading a
directory and visiting its entries when the file or directory was meanwhile
removed. [#45930]
To fix a POSIX compatibility bug, -exec foo Z{} + is no longer a
complete predicate, because ‘+’ is only a terminator when it follows
an argument which is exactly ‘{}’. The findutils documentation
already states this, and now find’s behaviour matches the
documentation. [#66365]
‘updatedb.sh’ now properly handles the variables for the ‘find’ and ‘frcode’
utilities, and hence avoids command injection.
** Changes in find
As announced since the release of 4.7.0 (2019) and mandated by POSIX 2024,
the behaviour of the -mount option changed: while it was a mere alias for
the -xdev option to prevent descending into directories of another device,
the -mount option now makes find(1) ignore files on another device, i.e.,
‘find -mount’ will skip the entry of active mount points already.
Example, assuming the PROC filesystem is mounted on ‘/proc’:
$ find / -mount -path /proc -print
$ find / -xdev -path /proc -print
/proc
[#54745]
The actions -execdir and -okdir now refuse the ‘{}’ replacement in the zeroth
argument of the command to be run. While POSIX allows this for -exec, this is
deemed insecure as an attacker could influence which files could be found.
‘find -regex’ with the default or the ’emacs’ regextype now aligns better with
Emacs behaviour, and therefore e.g. supports character classes:
$ touch 123 && find -regex ‘./12[[:digit:]]’
./123
find now issues a warning when the punctuation operators ‘(‘, ‘)’, ‘!’ and ‘,’
are passed with a leading dash, e.g. ‘-!’. Future releases will not accept
that any more. Accepting that was rather a bug “since the beginning”.
** Improvements
xargs now gives a better error diagnostic when executing the given command
failed.
** Documentation Changes
The most recent version of the POSIX standard (IEEE Std 1003.1-2024,
also known as The Open Group Base Specifications, Issue 8) has
standardised “find -print0” and “xargs -0”. Our documentation now
points this out. Similarly for ‘find -iname’.
The code example for “Finding the Shallowest Instance” in the Texinfo manual
and the corresponding one in the EXAMPLES section in the find.1 man page have
been fixed. [#62259]
Translators contributed numerous fixes for issues in the find.1 man page.
The list of actions that suppress the default -print action has been
supplemented with the missing ‘-print0’ and ‘-fprint0’ actions.
The manual pages have been updated to give better and/or more
consistent output with manpage formatters other than GNU roff.
** Translations
Updated the following translations:
Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Croatian,
Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
** Future Changes
A future release will remove the warning message find prints about
the 2007 change in the meaning of “-perm /000”. Everybody who is
likely to care probably knows about this change by now.
-eof-
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