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@@ -1,5 +1,161 @@ +2020-01-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + version 4.8 + * NEWS: Record release date. + + doc: mention changes inherited through gnulib + * NEWS (Improvements): Mention gnulib. + +2020-01-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + build: update gnulib to latest (for updated perl.m4) + + tests: remove valgrind-added diagnostics from stderr + * testsuite/bug32271-2.sh: Filter out lines starting with "==". + This avoids unwarranted failures on e.g., windows systems that + would emit this to stderr: + +==16281== error calling PR_SET_PTRACER, vgdb might block + * testsuite/newline-dfa-bug.sh: Likewise. + Reported by Vagelis Prokopiou on Windows subsystem for Linux + (Debian 10) in https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00018.html + and by Bruno Haible for mingw in + https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00005.html + + sed: avoid MSVC build failure + * sed/sed.c (usage): Remove unnecessary forward declaration. + Reported by Bruno Haible in + https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00007.html + + tests: avoid hpux11 test failure + * testsuite/title-case.sh: Correct printf usage not to trigger + unspecified behavior for '\(\)'. Instead, just use sed with its -r + option so those parentheses don't need any backslash at all. + Reported by Bruno Haible in + https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00008.html + +2020-01-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + tests: handle missing perl + Before this change, the two perl-requiring tests would fail + on systems without perl. Now, they are skipped, as intended. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add perl. + * testsuite/no-perl: New file. From coreutils. + * testsuite/local.mk (EXTRA_DIST): Add it. + (TESTSUITE_PERL): Include testsuite/ prefix. + +2020-01-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + maint: once again distribute .tar.gz files + * configure.ac: Reenable distribution of gzip-compressed + tarballs, on request from Jan Nieuwenhuizen in + https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00013.html + * NEWS (Release): Mention this. + +2020-01-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + maint: space-before-open-paren: avoid syntax-check error + * sed/sed.c (selinux_support): Insert space before open-paren. + + build: update gnulib to latest (for thread-related test fixes) + * .gitignore: Add /lib/inttypes.h. + +2020-01-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + maint: update all copyright year number ranges + Run "make update-copyright" and then... + * gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted. + * tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year. + * bootstrap: Likewise. + + maint: remove explicit mention of gnulib's threadlib module + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove explicit mention of threadlib. + It was added back in 2012 to avoid a bootstrap failure; that explicit + mention has long been unnecessary. + +2019-09-05 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com> + + sed: set correct umask on temporary files + "sed -i" now creates temporary files with correct umask (limited to u=rwx). + Previously sed would incorrectly set umask, and combined with mkostemp + creating file with mode 0600, the result would be a file with + permission mode 0. + + Reported by Dr N.W. Filardo <nwf20@cam.ac.uk>: + https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2019-08/msg00000.html + "The net effect is that this patch does not do what it says on the tin: + it does not improve the security story at all. Things continue to + function because the subsequent operations are via f*() APIs, which + take the open file handle, and in particular fchmod() will put the + bits back to something sensible. + + However, when running atop, for example, fuse-style filesystems which do + not keep open descriptors to underlying files, this is catastrophic: + the underlying file will have I_SRWXU of zero, and so the filesystem + server will be unable to open the file for the fchmod() and that's + the end of that." + + "fuse-overlayfs" is an example of a filesystem with such issues. + This change was made in commit 5156c19b23c41f438bf8658e1b9a43a5ff136835 + and was released in sed 4.2.1. + + * NEWS: Mention change. + * sed/utils.c (ck_mkstemp): Set correct umask. + +2019-06-02 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com> + + tests: inplace-selinux.sh: skip if SELinux is not supported + Avoid false-positive failure on system with SELinux enabled when SED + is built without SELinux suppport. + + Reported by Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> in + https://bugs.gnu.org/35997 . + + * testsuite/inplace-selinux.sh: Call 'sed --version' to check if sed + was built with SELinux support before continuing with the test. + +2019-06-02 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com> + + sed: report SELinux status in --version output + Report whether sed was built with SELinux support (determined at compile + time), and whether it is enabled on this system (determined at runtime). + + Relates to https://bugs.gnu.org/35997 . + + * sed/sed.c (selinux_support): New function, print SELinux status to + stdout. (main): Call selinux_support on --version. + +2019-01-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + build: ensure no VLA is used + Cause developer builds to fail for any use of a VLA. + VLAs (variable length arrays) limit portability. + * configure.ac (nw): Remove -Wvla from the list of disabled warnings, + thus enabling the warning when configured with --enable-gcc-warnings. + (GNULIB_NO_VLA) Define, disabling use of VLAs in gnulib. This commit + is functionally equivalent to coreutils' v8.30-44-gd26dece5d. + + build: update gnulib to latest + +2019-01-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + + build: update gnulib to latest + +2019-01-01 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com> + + maint: update copyright dates for 2019 + * all files: Run "make update-copyright". + 2018-12-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> + maint: use https: in gnu mirror URL prefix, not http + This appears in the generated release announcement message. + * cfg.mk (url_dir_list): Use https: prefix, not http:. + + maint: post-release administrivia + * NEWS: Add header line for next release. + * .prev-version: Record previous version. + * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update. + version 4.7 * NEWS: Record release date. |