doc: add NEWS for an improvement to dd in the last release

* NEWS: Mention the avoidance of the gotcha with specifying
a hex constant like count=0x1000 etc. as that previously
was silently interpreted as 0.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 167c3768ac6953b48bc4637fc1ee67aad2f4e76a..b066c61e3ee5386632deabe49fd6d79a8aae7c6f 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Improvements
 
+  dd now warns about counts specified with a 0x "prefix", since dd will
+  interpret those as a zero multiplier rather than a hex constant.
+  The warning suggests to use 00x if a zero multiplier is really intended.
+
   df now filters the system mount list more efficiently, with 20000
   mount entries now being processed in about 1.1s compared to 1.7s.
 

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index ec03974102964a5868acbcb210f19336b0a30ec4..efc7db71216b2bf45bd87f7aa22a900b2eec7953 100644 (file)
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export VERBOSE = yes
 # 4914152 9e
 export XZ_OPT = -8e
 
-old_NEWS_hash = 46e9780e1ed2f2df9611205e5e08b95a
+old_NEWS_hash = 48f0493682b6062af615abd4fb8c356f
 
 # Add an exemption for sc_makefile_at_at_check.
 _makefile_at_at_check_exceptions = ' && !/^cu_install_prog/ && !/dynamic-dep/'