0.0.18

🎉 We're excited to announce the new release of Rust coreutils! This release brings several improvements and new features, including updates to the GNU test suite compatibility, and refinements in various utilities such as cksum, chmod, chroot, comm, cp, cut, and many more.

General changes

• GNU/coreutils: update reference to 9.2 by @cakebaker in #4601
• MSRV 1.64 & Workspace inheritance for dependencies by @tertsdiepraam in #4344
• Fuzzing deployed for some programs and functions
• For most of the programs, the help and description are using dedicated markdown files.
• Adjust -i behavior for ln, cp & mv by @sylvestre in #4630
• Refactor signal handling in yes, tee, and timeout by @anastygnome in #4588
• Migrate from atty to is-terminal by @souzaguilhermea in #4382

GNU test suite compatibility

Many utils have gotten minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. Below is a summary of the progress. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details
The numbers changes in every category because of the GNU/Coreutils upgraded to 9.2

result	0.0.17	0.0.18	change
pass	338	340	+2
skip	48	50	+2
fail	204	210	+6
error	3	2	+-1

Detailed changes

cksum 

• Implement -a by @howjmay in #4356

chmod

• change permissions for files present even when there is a missing file by @dmatos2012 in #4359
• suppress verbose output when not verbose by @dmatos2012 in #4402
• allow verbose and quiet flags to be used more than once by @dmatos2012 in #4410
• Fix GNU test 'chmod/usage' by @bbara in #4442

chroot

• Fix unused import on Android by @miles170 in #4571

comm

• Implement --total by @cakebaker in #4300
• Enable "no_arguments" & "one_argument" tests by @cakebaker in #4330
• Use delimiter on "total" line by @cakebaker in #4314
• Implement --zero-terminated by @cakebaker in #4449
• Allow multiple occurrence of --zero-terminated by @cakebaker in #4452

cp

• Modify archive flag to copy dir contents rather than dir by @dmatos2012 in #3954
• Use PathBuf instead of String for paths by @tmccombs in #4348
• Stop saying --sparse is not implemented for cp by @tmccombs in #4349

cut

• Refactor by @TechHara in #4255

date

• Show error when reading dirs for -f arg by @shanmukhateja in #4572
• Added default value for date --i. by @kidrigger in #4522
• fix: match date -I error messages with GNU date by @shanmukhateja in #4499
• Added tests for date ISO8601 formats. by @kidrigger in #4520
• Make sure 'invalid date' message also returns exit code 1 by @tertsdiepraam in #4526
• Fix invalid argument error for RFC 3339 by @shanmukhateja in #4535
• A better handler for ./coreutils date -f aze by @AbhinavMir in #4482

dd

• Move dd_out() function up to module level by @jfinkels in #4428
• Allow skipping and seeking in FIFOs by @jfinkels in #4164
• Fix precision for display of total time spent by @jfinkels in #4498
• Fix unused imports on FreeBSD by @miles170 in #4512
• Open stdin from file descriptor when possible by @jfinkels in #4189

du

• threshold error message fix by @haciek in #4637
• Update the GNU error message to our for tests/du/threshold.sh by @sylvestre in #4656
• Run test_du_time with TZ=UTC. by @eggpi in #4446
• Fix unnecessary boolean operation by @papparapa in #4548

env

• start about text with uppercase char by @cakebaker in #4324
• docs: document env -f/--file in GNU extensions by @tertsdiepraam in #4331

expand

• Improve plus specifier handling by @sbentmar in #4260

factor

• Remove paste dev dependency by @tertsdiepraam in #4631

hashsum

• Add --zero option (#4612) by @0xMRTT in #4632

install

• Fix bad target directory permissions by @kylemanna in #4364
• Add missing directory chown by @kylemanna in #4365

ln

• Fix format of help text by @cakebaker in #4327

ls

• Cannot find function expected_result in this scope by @piotrkwiecinski in #4580
• Handling case sensitive ls output by @jparag in #4524

mktemp

• uncomment fixed test case by @jfinkels in #4297

mv

• Update of fs_extra - address the new warnings by @sylvestre in #4320

nice

• Support legacy argument syntax for nice by @eds-collabora in #4271

nproc

• Replace num_cpus crate with thread::available_parallelism by @souzaguilhermea in #4352

od

• Remove "width = width" from format strings by @cakebaker in #4263
• Fix some minor details suggested by clippy::pedantic by @cakebaker in #4492

ptx

• Fix warning from unnecessary_join lint by @cakebaker in #4313

pwd

• Small refactor of some match expressions by @tertsdiepraam in #4508

rm

• Remove remove_dir_all dependency by @howjmay in #4340

shred

• Refactor to clean up code and reduce syscalls by @tertsdiepraam in #4493
• Enable test_shred_force on FreeBSD by @miles170 in #4523
• Fix permissions_set_readonly_false clippy error by @miles170 in #4488

sleep

• Fix parsing of multiple inputs panics on overflow, some whitespace issues ... by @Joining7943 in #4439
• Replace uucore::parse_time::from_str with fundu by @Joining7943 in #4448

stdbuf

• Get profile from the end of the path by @tertsdiepraam in #4638

stty

• Basic support for --file/-F by @VorpalBlade in #4401

tail

• Fix GNU test 'misc/tail' by @bbara in #4347
• Fix argument parsing of sleep interval by @Joining7943 in #4239
• tests/tail: Disable test_follow_with_pid on freebsd by @Joining7943 in #4307
• tail: Cargo.toml: Remove unneeded features of uucore and the nix dependency by @Joining7943 in #4376

touch

• Add underscores to long number in test by @cakebaker in #4577

timeout

• Add a test to verify that it fails as expected by @sylvestre in #4419
• Fix subprocess is never terminated by @miles170 in #4315

tr

• Remove the extra newline in stderr by @howjmay in #4339

uname

• Use the same version of platform-info as arch by @sylvestre in #4290

uniq

• Remove suppression of use_self lint by @cakebaker in #4354
• Remove strum dependency by @tertsdiepraam in #4629

uptime

• correctly calculate boot-time by @zanbaldwin in #4440

utmpx

• arch/os-independent timeval handling by @bbara in #4405

wc

• Implement --total by @cakebaker in #4695

uucore

• util: fix publish order of uucore_procs and uucore by @tertsdiepraam in #4287
• uucore: Fix #4298: Fails to build on s390x (and riscv64) by @Joining7943 in #4299
• parser: fix index out of bounds error by @papparapa in #4484
• uucore: fix help section doesn't render 3+ level headers by @piotrkwiecinski in #4569
• Fix panic in multi-byte characters by @howjmay in #4388
• uucore_procs: extract "about" and "usage" info from new help structure by @cakebaker in #4385
• uucore: indent multiline usage info by @cakebaker in #4393
• replace VERSION string with clap::crate_version by @akhilerm in #4462

CI

• CICD maintainence by @rivy in #4292
• Use sccache to cache build results by @sylvestre in #4486
• use sccache action 0.0.3 - automatically uses the most recent version of sccache by @sylvestre in #4582
• Extend the stale bot to 3 years by @sylvestre in #4312
• End the current execution if there is a new changeset in the PR by @sylvestre in #4386
• GNU: Ignore some intermittent by @sylvestre in #4296
• cicd: Fix #4322 toolchain overrides must begin with + by @Joining7943 in #4323
• Linting and formatting checks for FreeBSD by @miles170 in #4668
• utils: create a script to explore binary sizes by @tertsdiepraam in #4441
• Install some missing dependencies for the GNU tests by @sylvestre in #4451
• Remove duplicated x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu target from build job by @kamilogorek in #4648
• Move freebsd & android jobs in separate workflows by @sylvestre in #4628
• Remove outdated comments by @cakebaker in #4649
• Also ignore intermittent when starting to pass by @sylvestre in #4541
• util/show-utils: fix script not working as intended by @miles170 in #4560
• Remove android from the job name (as it is now a workspace) by @sylvestre in #4671
• manage an potential error in util/remaining-gnu-error.py when GNU isn't up to date by @sylvestre in #4626
• release-fast and release-small profiles and a page on packaging in the docs. by @tertsdiepraam in #4470

Test

• test: add a test matching what busybox is doing by @sylvestre in #4265
• Remove keep_env from the test framework by @miles170 in #4594
• Implement enhancements of CmdResult #4259 by @Joining7943 in #4261
• Small Refactor/Fixes of UCommand and add method to run a UCommand in a shell platform independently by @Joining7943 in #4293
• Fix tr.pl and stat-printf.pl don't show up in gnu-full-result by @miles170 in #4503
• Fix path resolution of test executable by @Joining7943 in #4256
• Don't trim output in CmdResult::stdout_matches and stdout_does_not_match by @Joining7943 in #4304
• Replace panic in favor of ParseError by @leon3s in #4558
• Fix unused import "rstest::rstest" warning by @cakebaker in #4644
• Default environment variables for tests by @tertsdiepraam in #4593
• tests: expand wildcard imports by @cakebaker in #4561

Code quality

• clippy: fix warnings introduced with Rust 1.67.0 by @cakebaker in #4303
• clippy: fix unnecessary return warnings by @ctsk in #4308
• Fixes from nightly version of clippy by @jfinkels in #4363
• fix unnecessary boolean not operations by @daviddwk in #4578
• remove dependabot configuration. we are using renovatebot by @sylvestre in #4599
• Fix some simple clippy warnings by @sylvestre in #4532
• build.rs: ignore a clippy warning: match_same_arms by @sylvestre in #4536
• fix: clippy long literal lacking separators by @leon3s in #4546
• lint: Enable clippy::if_not_else and fix all lint issues by @kamilogorek in #4647

Documentation

• docs: fix invalid test status in gnu-full-result by @miles170 in #4317
• Start about texts with uppercase char by @cakebaker in #4326
• fix typo by @howjmay in #4328
• Document how to build in release mode by @sylvestre in #4467
• Freebsd pkg has been remamed to rust-coreutils by @sylvestre in #4420
• refresh the installation doc with new distros by @sylvestre in #4374
• Add OpenMandriva Lx to the documentation by @tpgxyz in #4431
• gentoo has renamed the package by @sylvestre in #4418
• Generate manpages and check them in the CI by @sylvestre in #4459
• Various improvements in the docs by @sylvestre in #4457
• Add FreeBSD to documentation by @pkubaj in #4397
• readme: advise using --locked with cargo install by @samueltardieu in #4502
• Updating README.md & CONTRIBUTING.md (and removing DEVELOPER_INSTRUCTIONS.md) by @tertsdiepraam in #4511
• readme: remove LOC badge by @cakebaker in #4559
• References the other implementations by @sylvestre in #4463
• fix: to show the name of utility instead of 'manpages' by @SSJDeathSpawn in #4566
• Replace get_long_usage fns with const by @cakebaker in #4367

Dependency update

• build(deps): bump gcd from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 by @dependabot in #4180
• build(deps): bump blake3 from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 by @dependabot in #4171
• chore(deps): update rust crate hex-literal to 0.4.0 by @renovate in #4699
• fix(deps): update rust crate data-encoding to 2.3 by @renovate in #4689
• chore(deps): update rust crate rstest to 0.17.0 by @renovate in #4677
• fix(deps): update rust crate windows-sys to 0.45.0 by @renovate in #4691
• build(deps): bump regex from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 by @dependabot in #4311
• chore(deps): update rust crate crossterm to >=0.26.1 by @renovate in #4660
• chore(deps): update rust crate half to 2.2 by @renovate in #4665
• chore(deps): update rust crate fs_extra to 1.3.0 by @renovate in #4663
• fix(deps): update rust crate libc to 0.2.140 by @renovate in #4653
• chore(deps): update rust crate notify to v5.1.0 by @renovate in #4666
• chore(deps): update rust crate is-terminal to 0.4.6 by @renovate in #4673
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap to 4.2 by @renovate in #4674
• chore(deps): update rust crate gcd to 2.3 by @renovate in #4664
• chore(deps): update rust crate exacl to 0.10.0 by @renovate in #4662
• chore(deps): update rust crate unicode-segmentation to 1.10.1 by @renovate in #4684
• chore(deps): update rust crate fundu to 0.5.0 by @renovate in #4683
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to 4.2 by @renovate in #4676
• chore(deps): update rust crate unindent to 0.2 by @renovate in #4687
• chore(deps): update rust crate once_cell to 1.17.1 by @renovate in #4669
• chore(deps): update rust crate walkdir to 2.3 by @renovate in #4688
• chore(deps): update rust crate num_cpus to 1.15 by @renovate in #4667
• fix(deps): update rust crate wild to 2.1 by @renovate in #4690
• chore(deps): update rust crate xattr to v1 by @renovate in #4692
• chore(deps): update rust crate zip to 0.6.4 by @renovate in #4635
• chore(deps): update rust crate nom to 7.1.3 by @renovate in #4605
• fix(deps): update rust crate itertools to 0.10.5 by @renovate in #4652
• chore(deps): update rust crate bstr to 1.4 by @renovate in #4655
• chore(deps): update rust crate byteorder to 1.4.3 by @renovate in #4658
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to 4.1 by @renovate in #4659
• chore(deps): update rust crate ctrlc to 3.2 by @renovate in #4661
• chore(deps): update rust crate is-terminal to 0.4.5 by @renovate in #4604
• chore(deps): update rust crate sha2 to 0.10.6 by @renovate in #4622
• chore(deps): update rust crate unicode-width to 0.1.10 by @renovate in #4633
• fix(deps): update rust crate dns-lookup to 1.0.8 by @renovate in #4636
• fix(deps): update rust crate glob to 0.3.1 by @renovate in #4640
• chore(deps): update rust crate ouroboros to 0.15.6 by @renovate in #4617
• chore(deps): update rust crate regex to 1.7.3 by @renovate in #4620
• chore(deps): update rust crate signal-hook to 0.3.15 by @renovate in #4623
• chore(deps): update rust crate num-bigint to 0.4.3 by @renovate in #4616
• chore(deps): update rust crate fundu to 0.4.3 by @renovate in #4602
• chore(deps): update rust crate sha1 to 0.10.5 by @renovate in #4621
• chore(deps): update rust crate hex-literal to 0.3.4 by @renovate in #4603
• chore(deps): update rust crate chrono to ^0.4.24 by @renovate in #4597
• deps: bump time from 0.3.17 to 0.3.20 by @tertsdiepraam in #4643
• chore(deps): update rust crate blake3 to 1.3.3 by @renovate in #4596
• Fix some double deps by @tertsdiepraam in #4333
• Bump tempfile from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 by @cakebaker in #4483
• Bump rayon from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 by @cakebaker in #4497
• Bump clap from 4.0.26 to 4.1.8 & fix broken tests by @cakebaker in #4478
• Bump procfs from 0.14.1 to 0.15.1 by @cakebaker in #4500
• Bump terminal_size from 0.2.2 to 0.2.5 by @cakebaker in #4501
• Bump fts-sys to 0.2.4 & selinux-sys to 0.6.2 by @cakebaker in #4504
• Bump clap from 4.1.8 to 4.1.13 by @cakebaker in #4595
• Updated selinux dependency to version 0.4 by @koutheir in #4427

New Contributors

• @howjmay made their first contribution in #4328
• @tmccombs made their first contribution in #4349
• @souzaguilhermea made their first contribution in #4352
• @papparapa made their first contribution in #4372
• @kylemanna made their first contribution in #4364
• @pkubaj made their first contribution in #4397
• @jhowww made their first contribution in #4403
• @chenchiii made their first contribution in #4411
• @zleyyij made their first contribution in #4373
• @bbara made their first contribution in #4405
• @tpgxyz made their first contribution in #4431
• @VorpalBlade made their first contribution in #4401
• @zanbaldwin made their first contribution in #4440
• @eggpi made their first contribution in #4446
• @schoki040 made their first contribution in #4456
• @curtainp made their first contribution in #4391
• @akhilerm made their first contribution in #4461
• @chusteven made their first contribution in #4458
• @IZUMI-Zu made their first contribution in #4471
• @wuseyu made their first contribution in #4472
• @aiye123 made their first contribution in #4491
• @samueltardieu made their first contribution in #4502
• @ValentinyFilip made their first contribution in #4516
• @shanmukhateja made their first contribution in #4499
• @kidrigger made their first contribution in #4520
• @jparag made their first contribution in #4524
• @AbhinavMir made their first contribution in #4482
• @piotrkwiecinski made their first contribution in #4549
• @leon3s made their first contribution in #4546
• @daviddwk made their first contribution in #4578
• @SSJDeathSpawn made their first contribution in #4566
• @kamilogorek made their first contribution in #4648
• @haciek made their first contribution in #4637
• @0xMRTT made their first contribution in #4632

Full Changelog: 0.0.17...0.0.18