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Here's NEWS since 6.12
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* Noteworthy changes in release 7.0 (????-??-??) [beta]

** New programs

  timeout: Run a command with bounded time.
  truncate: Set the size of a file to a specified size.

** New features

  comm now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order.  This check can
  be turned off with the --nocheck-order option.

  comm accepts new option, --output-delimiter=STR, that allows specification
  of an output delimiter other than the default single TAB.

  md5sum now accepts the new option, --quiet, to suppress the printing of
  'OK' messages.  sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum accept it, too.

  sort accepts a new option, --files0-from=F, that specifies a file
  containing a null-separated list of files to sort.  This list is used
  instead of filenames passed on the command-line to avoid problems with
  maximum command-line (argv) length.

  sort accepts a new option --batch-size=NMERGE, where NMERGE
  represents the maximum number of inputs that will be merged at once.
  When processing more than NMERGE inputs, sort uses temporary files.

** Bug fixes

  chcon --verbose now prints a newline after each message

  od no longer suffers from platform bugs in printf(3).  This is
  probably most noticeable when using 'od -tfL' to print long doubles.

** Improvements

  Improved support for access control lists (ACLs): On MacOS X, Solaris 7..10,
  HP-UX 11, Tru64, AIX, IRIX 6.5, and Cygwin, "ls -l" now displays the presence
  of an ACL on a file via a '+' sign after the mode, and "cp -p" copies ACLs.

  join has significantly better performance due to better memory management

  od now aligns fields across lines when printing multiple -t
  specifiers, and no longer prints fields that resulted entirely from
  padding the input out to the least common multiple width.


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Changes since 6.12.29-a16be:

Bo Borgerson (7):
      comm: ensure that input files are sorted
      comm: accept new option: --output-delimiter=STR
      join: improve memory management
      HACKING: Add section for tips on reducing translator workload.
      sort: add new option --files0-from=F
      sort: accept new option --batch-size=NMERGE
      sort: Fix bug where --batch-size option shrank SORT_SIZE.

Bruno Haible (1):
      fix build failure on AIX 4

Eric Blake (6):
      doc: od defaults to -toS, not -td2
      od: simplify long double support
      od: use gnulib printf replacement as necessary
      od: align multiple -t specs
      od: improve handling of padding
      ls, od: avoid redundant const

Jim Meyering (22):
      tests: remove duplicate mention of misc/selinux
      tests: skip a chown test on FreeBSD 6.x
      fix another unportable use of 'tr'
      tweak to conform with syntax policy
      skip (don't fail) root-only tests for common set-up failures
      don't use "const" with scalar types
      revert previous change, "don't use "const" with scalar types"
      add "const" attribute, where possible
      * maint.mk (sc_proper_name_utf8_requires_ICONV) Fix typo in diagnostic.
      run gnulib-tests in parallel
      update HACKING guidelines
      fix a const-related compilation failure in sort.c
      fix the compilation failure for real
      address root cause of compilation failures:
      chcon: correct --verbose output to include newlines
      remove redundant const directives
      * THANKS: Add name and email for Carl Roth.
      doc: fix a syntax error
      * tests/check.mk: Fix a typo in a comment.
      tests: avoid root-only test failure when run in a chroot
      tests: avoid test failure when root's primary group-ID is not 0
      make "make syntax-check" quieter

Ralf Wildenhues (1):
      * doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Drop leading blanks.