From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:17:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: admin: update NEWS X-Git-Tag: v7.4~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5aa7858385f7f6fe8c6f873ff1ba510b87288241;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git admin: update NEWS * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the date-related fixes. (Portability): Mention the ACL-related fixes on *BSD. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e998d37b89..5ab1115981 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,25 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- -* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +* Noteworthy changes in release 7.4 (2009-05-07) [stable] + +** Bug fixes + + date -d 'next mon', when run on a Monday, now prints the date + 7 days in the future rather than the current day. Same for any other + day-of-the-week name, when run on that same day of the week. + [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning". ] + + date -d tuesday, when run on a Tuesday -- using date built from the 7.3 + release tarball, not from git -- would print the date 7 days in the future. + Now, it works properly and prints the current date. That was due to + human error (including not-committed changes in a release tarball) + and the fact that there is no check to detect when the gnulib/ git + submodule is dirty. + +** Portability + + There have been some ACL-related portability fixes for *BSD, + inherited from gnulib. * Noteworthy changes in release 7.3 (2009-05-01) [stable]