NEWS - OpenGrok cross reference for /coreutils/NEWS

288   'cp --reflink=always A B' no longer leaves behind a newly created
289   empty file B merely because copy-on-write clones are not supported.
395   If 'cp -Z A B' checks B's status and some other process then removes B,
396   cp no longer creates B with a too-generous SELinux security context
400   'cp --preserve=ownership A B' no longer ignores the umask when creating B.
401   Also, 'cp --preserve-xattr A B' is less likely to temporarily chmod u+w B.
404   On macOS, 'cp A B' no longer miscopies when A is in an APFS file system
405   and B is in some other file system.
421   On macOS, 'mv A B' no longer fails with "Operation not supported"
422   when A and B are in the same tmpfs file system.
425   'mv -T --backup=numbered A B/' no longer miscalculates the backup number
426   for B when A is a directory, possibly inflooping.
450   dd now counts bytes instead of blocks if a block count ends in "B".
720   For example, 'date -d "09:00B" is now equivalent to 9am in UTC+2 time zone.
722   rfc822, with their value negated (e.g., "B" was equivalent to UTC-2).
771   When B already exists, 'cp -il A B' no longer immediately fails
815   When possible 'ln A B' now merely links A to B and reports an error
816   if this fails, instead of statting A and B before linking.  This
906   'mv -n A B' no longer suffers from a race condition that can
907   overwrite a simultaneously-created B.  This bug fix requires
1134   Commands like 'cp --no-dereference -l A B' are no longer quiet no-ops
1135   when A is a regular file and B is a symbolic link that points to A.
1180   If the file B already exists, commands like 'ln -f A B' and
1181   'cp -fl A B' no longer remove B before creating the new link.
1182   That is, there is no longer a brief moment when B does not exist.
2305   "mv A B" could succeed, yet A would remain.  This would happen only when
2306   both A and B were hard links to the same symlink, and with a kernel for
2307   which rename("A","B") does nothing and returns 0 (POSIX mandates this
3011   env -u A=B now fails, rather than silently adding A to the
3012   environment.  Likewise, printenv A=B silently ignores the invalid
4046   copying a file with group A and mode 644 into a group-B sticky
4047   directory, the output file was briefly readable by group B.
4189   "mv -T --verbose --backup=t A B" now prints the " (backup: B.~1~)"
4190   suffix when A and B are directories as well as when they are not.
4194   a slash and doesn't exist.  E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B,
4615   cat's --binary or -B option has been removed.  It existed only on
5277   Mistakenly renaming a file onto itself, e.g., via 'mv B b' when 'B' is
5279   referenced by both 'b' and 'B'.  Note that this would happen only on
5288   1) B and b refer to the same directory entry on a file system like NTFS
5289        (B may well have a link count larger than 1)
5290   2) B and b are hard links to the same file
5478 * stat accepts a new file format, %B, for the size of each block reported by %b
5624   A missing 'B' (e.g. '1M') has the same meaning as before.
5625   A trailing 'B' now means decimal, not binary; this is a silent change.
5627 * -H or --si now outputs the trailing 'B', for consistency with the above.
5629 * New df, du short option -B is short for --block-size.
5631   e.g. 'df -BG' is equivalent to 'df -B 1G' and to 'df --block-size=1G'.