coreutils-9.0 released
coreutils-9.0 released
[Development] Posted Sep 24, 2021 15:49 UTC (Fri) by jake
The GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) has announced the release of version 9.0 of "the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities
" used by the GNU operating system and various Linux distributions. In the year and a half or so since the last major release (8.32), various new features were added, including:
cp has changed how it handles data
- enables CoW [copy on write] by default (through FICLONE ioctl),
- uses copy offload where available (through copy_file_range),
- detects holes differently (though SEEK_HOLE)
- This also applies to mv and install.