0.6.0

Rust Coreutils 0.6.0 Release:

We are happy to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.6.0 — a major milestone achieving 96% GNU compatibility with significant safety improvements, enhanced locale support, and extensive bug fixes!

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Highlights:

• Major GNU Compatibility Leap

  • 622 passing tests (+56 from 0.5.0), achieving 96.28% compatibility
  • Reduced failures from 55 to just 16 (-39) and skipped tests from 23 to 7 (-16)
  • Extensive test suite improvements across sort, ls, date, cksum, tail, and many more

• Safety & Code Quality

  • Removed unsafe code from date, sort, locale.rs, and other utilities
  • Replaced raw libc calls with safe nix crate equivalents throughout
  • Enhanced error handling to avoid panics on /dev/full writes across many utilities

• Locale & Internationalization

  • Added ICU support for locale-aware day/month names in date
  • Implemented locale-aware hour formatting and calendar support
  • Added locale-aware numeric sorting with thousand separator support in sort
  • Locale-aware collation support in join

• Performance Improvements

  • base32/base64/basenc: Optimized with reduced memset operations
  • shuf: Optimized numeric output and added --random-seed option
  • date: Wrapped stdout in BufWriter for batch processing
  • uniq: Optimized memory usage for ignore-case comparison
  • tsort: Avoid reading entire input into memory, intern strings
  • df: Performance improvements with better filesystem handling

• Platform Support Expansion

  • Expanded safe directory traversal to all Unix platforms
  • Enhanced Cygwin support across multiple utilities
  • Added SMACK security module support for ls, id, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod
  • Added RISC-V 64-bit musl target to CI

• Notable Utility Improvements

  • cksum/hashsum: Merged common logic, removed deprecated hashsum binary
  • tail: Added --debug flag, fixed -F symlink tracking, fixed --pid with FIFO
  • timeout: Added comprehensive signal handling and --verbose improvements
  • sort: Legacy +POS/-POS handling, locale-aware collation, debug key annotations
  • pr: Multiple fixes for headers, form feeds, and pagination options
  • chmod: Fixed recursive handling and --preserve-root option
  • rm: Fixed error reporting and symlink handling

• Contributions: This release was made possible by 41 new contributors joining our community

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GNU Test Suite Compatibility:

Result	0.5.0	0.6.0	Change 0.5.0 to 0.6.0	% Total 0.5.0	% Total 0.6.0	% Change 0.5.0 to 0.6.0
Pass	566	622	+56	87.75%	96.28%	+8.53%
Skip	23	7	-16	3.57%	1.08%	-2.49%
Fail	55	16	-39	8.53%	2.48%	-6.05%
Error	1	1	0	0.16%	0.15%	~0%
Total	645	646	+1 (new test)

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What's Changed

arch

• Avoid >/dev/full panic by @oech3 in #10516

base64

• base(nc|32|64): Optimize performances reduction memset by @mattsu2020 in #9632
• Improve read error message by @dezgeg in #10512

basename

• basename . >/dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10553

cat

• do not connect to unix domain socket and instead return an error by @asder8215 in #9755
• fix write error handling to propagate errors instead of panicking by @rynewang in #10038
• tests(cat,stdbuf): Add broken-pipe robustness tests (#4627) by @naoNao89 in #8798

chgrp

• correct exit code by @cerdelen in #10035

chmod

• fix error handling if multiple files are handled by @cerdelen in #9793
• recursive hyper nested dirs by @cerdelen in #9990
• preserve root by @cerdelen in #10033

chroot

• use execvp directly instead of process::Command by @mattsu2020 in #9013

cksum

• Checksum ignore binary by @RenjiSann in #9695
• Improve check-only flags handling by @RenjiSann in #9770
• Move --ckeck's deps to clap by @oech3 in #9996
• Move handle_tag_text_binary_flags to clap by @oech3 in #9999
• Simple default tag variable by @oech3 in #10057
• cksum,hashsum: Drop a message replaced by clap by @oech3 in #10055
• cksum/hashsum: Merge common logic under a common crate by @RenjiSann in #10142
• Revert recent checksum CLI changes by @RenjiSann in #10141
• Don't panic when checked file returned EIO by @oech3 in #10534
• --debug 2>/dev/full does not abort by @oech3 in #10589
• -c /dev/null 2>/dev/full should not abort by @oech3 in #10643

comm

• fix comparison when reading from pipes by @martinkunkel2 in #9545
• Fixes #10192 - fix(comm): improve stdout handling and add test for lossy UTF-8 output by @Paol0B in #10206
• Properly handle I/O errors when reading input by @dezgeg in #10567

cp

• fix preserve-gid when canonicalize fails due to inaccessible parent dirs by @ChrisDryden in #9803
• reduce memory usage for cp -al by skipping unnecessary tracking by @ChrisDryden in #9805
• set status code when encountering circular symbolic links by @Thanhphan1147 in #9757
• symlink flags fixing conflicting flag logic to use last flag by @Dylans123 in #9960
• Added test for permissions copying to an existing file by @max-amb in #10049
• use FileInformation without dereference for symlink destination check to match GNU behaviour for test/nfs-removal-race by @ChrisDryden in #10086
• Avoid other error at cp stream /dev/full by @oech3 in #10139
• Fixed posixly correct dangling symlink test by @max-amb in #10247
• cp/mv: suppress xattr ENOTSUP errors for optional preservation by @ChrisDryden in #10083

csplit

• detect and report write errors by @ChrisDryden in #9855

date

• remove unsafe by @xtqqczze in #9688
• fix inconsistent input parsing between -s and -d flags by @AnarchistHoneybun in #9690
• Implement locale-aware hour formatting for date command by @naoNao89 in #9654
• improve fuzzer and handle edge cases by @ChrisDryden in #9661
• fix hardcoded formats with nl_langinfo(D_T_FMT) by @naoNao89 in #9756
• Fix military date parsing not adjusting date by @cerdelen in #9785
• add benchmark by @CrazyRoka in #9911
• benchmark: keep only one value by @sylvestre in #9989
• avoid double parsing when resolving timezone abbreviations by @CrazyRoka in #9997
• perf(date): wrap stdout in BufWriter to improve batch processing by @CrazyRoka in #9994
• use PosixCustom formatting for GNU-compatible output by @ChrisDryden in #10245
• test: %x format specifier respects locale settings by @sylvestre in #10285
• handle parentheses as comments like GNU date by @sylvestre in #10133
• add ICU support for day/months names by @sylvestre in #10457
• add locale-aware calendar support for era years by @sylvestre in #10473
• use jiff-icu for locale calendar conversions by @ChrisDryden in #10499
• fuzz_date: skip combined short options like -Rf- that read from stdin by @ChrisDryden in #10547
• fix %% not being preserved in locale format strings by @ChrisDryden in #10577

dd

• should terminate with error if skip argument is too large by @ic3man5 in #7275
• use actual filename in nocache error messages by @ChrisDryden in #9820
• fix nocache flag handling at EOF by @ChrisDryden in #9818
• use ibs/obs-sized buffer for skip/seek on non-seekable files by @ChrisDryden in #9806
• use seek for stdin skip when possible by @ChrisDryden in #9821
• get rid of line buffered stdout by @svlv in #10235
• feat(dd): add first benchmark suite for performance validation by @naoNao89 in #9136

df

• add binfmt_misc to is_dummy_filesystem by @van-sprundel in #9975
• add benchmarks by @sylvestre in #10123
• improve perfs by @sylvestre in #10122
• add rootfs to is_dummy_filesystem by @ChrisDryden in #10159
• Sum scaled values to compute the totals by @3v1n0 in #10438

dir

• add "about" and "usage" instead of being "ls" by @w007878 in #10369

dirname

• refactor(dirname): implement pure string manipulation per POSIX by @naoNao89 in #8936
• use Cow::Borrowed to avoid unnecessary heap allocations by @sylvestre in #10294
• add fuzzer to test GNU compatibility by @sylvestre in #10289

du

• fix -l/--count-links option not counting hardlinks separately by @WaterWhisperer in #9884
• count links based on inode by @svlv in #10313

echo

• Reduce memory allocation by @AnuthaDev in #10090

env

• preserve non-UTF-8 environment variables and remove unwrap by @ChrisDryden in #9726
• Improve GNU coreutils Compatibility & Fix env-signal-handler.sh Test by @mattsu2020 in #9465
• env/printenv: dedup the code by @sylvestre in #9841
• dedup some code by @sylvestre in #9874
• --debug 2>/dev/full does not abort by @oech3 in #10594

expand

• address a cognitive_complexity warnings by @sylvestre in #9930
• expand, unexpand: Properly handle I/O errors by @dezgeg in #10510

expr

• fix regex matching on inputs containing newlines by @ChrisDryden in #10543

fmt

• handle invalid UTF-8 input by replacing malformed sequences by @mattsu2020 in #9329

fold

• fix gnu test fold-zero-width.sh by @mattsu2020 in #9274
• Add support for -c short option and fix character mode tab handling by @mattsu2020 in #10530

groups

• groups > /dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10523

hashsum

• Drop --no-names by @oech3 in #9762
• Drop non-GNU --bits flag by @RenjiSann in #9773
• Drop locales for --bits by @oech3 in #9811
• Drop benches as covered by cksum benches by @oech3 in #9842
• Move --ckeck's deps to clap by @oech3 in #9998
• hashsum, cksum: Move default stdin to clap by @oech3 in #10043
• hashsum, cksum: Move --check confliction to clap by @oech3 in #10041
• Remove hashsum by @RenjiSann in #10587
• Additional hashsum cleanup by @oech3 in #10622

head

• Consolidate legacy argument parsing for head/tail by @sylvestre in #9727
• refactor(head): replace unsafe raw fd usage with safe AsFd API by @mattsu2020 in #10161

hostid

• Avoid hostid > /dev/full panic by @oech3 in #10172

id

• -p crashes with panic when the real GID doesn't exist in /etc/group by @sylvestre in #9670
• Fix incorrect human-readable output by @frendsick in #7814

install

• add FreeBSD's -U (unprivileged) option by @alexandrefresnais in #9526
• prevent TOCTOU race attack by @Dolphindalt in #10067
• install -dv a >/dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10541

join

• add benchmarks by @WaterWhisperer in #10005
• add benchmark with the French locale by @WaterWhisperer in #10025
• consider locale collation in field comparison by @WaterWhisperer in #9982
• Benchmark join with actual Unicode data requiring locale collation by @sylvestre in #10391

kill

• kill -1 should trigger an error by @sylvestre in #9700

ln

• ln -svf /dev/null /tmp/a > /dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10539

logname

• logname > /dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10522

ls

• Make ls pass the GNU ls-misc.pl suite by @karanabe in #9262
• Add SMACK support by @ChrisDryden in #9868
• some improvements after #9431 by @sylvestre in #10149
• fixes for capability coloring by @bkueng in #8615
• Proper alignment for capabilities and ACLs notifications by @kimono-koans in #8793
• fix symlink chain target coloring by @ChrisDryden in #10274

mkdir

• create directories atomically with correct permissions by @rynewang in #10036
• Add SMACK support to id, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod utilities by @ChrisDryden in #9910
• chore: add test for setgid bit inheritance in mkdir -p by @0xferrous in #10412
• mkdir -pv a >/dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10540

mkfifo

• replace unsafe libc::mkfifo with nix::unistd::mkfifo by @sylvestre in #10112
• do not change permission when failed to create by @w007878 in #10376
• error when non-file permission mode set by @w007878 in #10372

mknod

• Avoid major/minor No overflow by @oech3 in #10196
• fix SELinux cleanup when context setting fails by @ChiamakaUI in #10582

mktemp

• Fix template validation to require trailing consecutive Xs by @Xylphy in #10224
• treat empty TMPDIR as unset and fallback to /tmp by @reubenwong97 in #10566

more

• file status made more idiomatic. by @devnexen in #10151
• test(more): Fix test_from_line_option race condition by increasing PTY delay by @naoNao89 in #9629

mv

• Adding fixes for i-3 GNU tests related to tty output when file is not writeable by @ChrisDryden in #9599
• support moving folder containing symlinks to different filesystem by @yuankunzhang in #8605
• test_mv.rs: Remove ignore from test_mv_broken_symlink_to_another_fs by @oech3 in #9978
• test-mv: Use temporary directory in /dev/shm by @3v1n0 in #10439

nice

• use Command::exec() instead of libc::execvp() by @Ecordonnier in #9612
• simplify the code by @sylvestre in #9931
• nice -n huge_num true by @oech3 in #10213
• nice > /dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10524

nl

• preserve raw bytes in output instead of using from_utf8_lossy by @ChrisDryden in #9673

nohup

• use POSIXLY_CORRECT to determine failure exit code by @ChrisDryden in #9685

nproc

• Avoid nproc > /dev/full panic by @oech3 in #10157

numfmt

• add --debug flag to print warnings about invalid input (#10110)
• add --unit-separator option for output formatting by @ChrisDryden in #10108
• support non-UTF8 delimiters for locales like GB18030 by @ChrisDryden in #10079
• align error messages for suffixes by @sbentmar in #9887

pr

• Enable pr-tests.pl with suppressed diff output by @ChrisDryden in #9829
• add -b flag for backwards compatibility by @ChrisDryden in #9993
• allow character, block, and fifo devices as input by @SaathwikDasari in #9946
• use 72 char line width for all page headers by @jfinkels in #10059
• add default values for -s and -S separator options by @ChrisDryden in #10073
• add -T/--omit-pagination option by @ChrisDryden in #10107
• uniformly scan for form feed and newline chars by @jfinkels in #10303
• refactor common code for reading from file by @jfinkels in #10334
• ignore empty line after form feed char by @jfinkels in #10331
• ignore empty line after newline char by @jfinkels in #10332
• remove unused lines_printed variable by @jfinkels in #10474

printenv

• Fix printenv non-UTF8 by @RenjiSann in #9728

printf

• Format String Parsing Overflow Causes Panic by @sylvestre in #9693
• printf 1 > /dev/full is not silent by @oech3 in #10171

ptx

• fix incorrect column width calculation and padding logic by @CrazyRoka in #9681
• implement -S/--sentence-regexp by @CrazyRoka in #9682
• fix panic when reference length exceeds line width by @CrazyRoka in #9816
• handle invalid regex arguments gracefully instead of panicking by @CrazyRoka in #9825
• handle duplicate input files by @CrazyRoka in #9823

readlink

• readlink /etc/mtab > /dev/full panics by @oech3 in #10525

rm

• fix safe traversal/access by @mattsu2020 in #9577
• fix error reporting for -r on Linux fixing #9011 by @ChrisDryden in #10111
• don't treat symlinks as write-protected by @GomesGoncalo in #10232
• no abbreviation no preserve root by @cerdelen in #10205
• fix for -rf ./ and variants silently delete current directory by @jacek-kurlit in #9924

rmdir

• Remove all trailing slashes when checking for symlinks by @cerdelen in #9983

runcon

• use Command::exec() instead of libc::execvp() by @Ecordonnier in #9611
• add missing utilities to enable tests/runcon/runcon-compute and removing PATH from runcon -c by @ChrisDryden in #10088

seq

• add SIGPIPE handling for GNU compatibility by @ChrisDryden in #9657
• Change fuzz_seq_parse_number to should_pass: false by @sylvestre in #10335

shred

• ensure deterministic pass sequence compatibility with reference implementation by @sylvestre in #9317
• fix(shred): stop immediately on write errors by @naoNao89 in #9649

shuf

• Add --random-seed, make --random-source GNU-compatible, report write failures, optimize by @blyxxyz in #7585
• optimize numeric output by avoiding write!() by @CrazyRoka in #10048
• Tune performance for -i 1-1000000 by @oech3 in #10478

sort

• Add legacy +POS/-POS handling in sort to pass GNU sort-field-limit test by @karanabe in #9501
• remove unsafe by @xtqqczze in #9694
• fix(sort): GNU sort-continue.sh test by @mattsu2020 in #9107
• Align sort debug key annotations with GNU coreutils by @mattsu2020 in #9468
• fixing locale benchmarks since locale is cached in OnceCell by @ChrisDryden in #9914
• bench(sort): add general numeric benchmark by @mattsu2020 in #10101
• feat(sort): add warning messages for obsolescent keys and options by @mattsu2020 in #9900
• refine error handling and localize field parsing errors by @mattsu2020 in #10068
• followup of #10068 by @sylvestre in #10226
• gnu coreutils compatibility (sort float.sh) by @mattsu2020 in #9839
• fix(sort): Enable locale-aware collation for UTF-8 locales by @quantum-encoding in #9176
• gnu coreutils compatibility (sort.pl) by @mattsu2020 in #9862
• gnu core utils test (sort-merge-fdlimit.sh) by @mattsu2020 in #9849
• feat(sort): add locale-aware numeric sorting support(sort-h-thousands-sep.sh) by @mattsu2020 in #9848
• FIX 10314 sort: locale-based collation is not supported by @Paol0B in #10481
• fix: numeric sort (-n) does not recognize thousand separators by @Kaua-Klassmann in #10339

split

• Added error when attempting to create file that already exists as directory by @max-amb in #9945

stat

• fix(stat): Collection of fixes for stat(1) by @Alonely0 in #9078

stdbuf

• use exec instead of forking by @Ecordonnier in #9495

stty

• implemented hex and octal parsing for rows and columns by @ChrisDryden in #9516
• columns env support and integration testing by @ChrisDryden in #9490
• Added unit tests for stty.rs to improve test coverage by @naoNao89 in #9094
• use stdin for TTY operations instead of /dev/tty by @ChrisDryden in #9881
• Implemented input and output baud rate setting for stty by @ChrisDryden in #9517
• bump libc & tmp stop musl-i686 by @oech3 in #10072
• Add bad-speed.sh test script to fetch-gnu.sh by @ChrisDryden in #10077
• Add cfg_aliases by @oech3 in #10443
• Don't panic when GNU provided stty 51 us by @oech3 in #10526

sync

• Reset O_NONBLOCK flag after file validation to match GNU behavior by @naoNao89 in #9437

tac

• fix error message by @cerdelen in #9942
• use temp file for stdin to respect TMPDIR and handle disk-full errors by @ChrisDryden in #10094
• add regex flavor translation for compatibility and new test case by @FidelSch in #10416
• tac, tail, dd: detect closed stdin before Rust sanitizes it to /dev/null by @ChrisDryden in #9664

tail

• fix: patch inotify-dir-recreate test for notify crate's threaded inotify by @ChrisDryden in #9666
• Removing flaky inotify-dir patch by @ChrisDryden in #9800
• fix --pid with FIFO by using non-blocking open by @ChrisDryden in #9663
• fix big number handling and error message quoting by @ChrisDryden in #10155
• add --debug flag to show follow implementation mode by @ChrisDryden in #10105
• fix pipe-f test by detecting broken stdout pipe by @ChrisDryden in #10156
• Fix tail -c panics when requested bytes exceed file size by @dhr412 in #10268
• tests: Add 'tests/tail/follow-name' to ignore list by @ChrisDryden in #10297
• fix behaviour of tail -n0 in follow mode by @AnandajithS in #9114
• Fixed passing -0 to tail. Closes #10191 by @trypsynth in #10209
• fix -F to properly track symlinks with changing targets by @ChrisDryden in #10158

tee

• allow multiple -a flags by @sylvestre in #10293
• tee miss/ing 2>/dev/full should not abort by @oech3 in #10637

test

• fixing unary operators that are getting parsed as argument instead of string literal by @georgepaulsen in #9951
• Trim whitespace in integer comparisons by @dezgeg in #10489

timeout

• cleanup return values by @Ecordonnier in #9576
• use nix kill/setpgid to reduce unsafe by @mattsu2020 in #10120
• backport timeout tests from master by @ChrisDryden in #10195
• display signal 0 as '0' instead of 'EXIT' in verbose mode by @ChrisDryden in #10194
• Improve error handling with explicit expect messages by @naoNao89 in #9435
• add all signal handlers, pass on signals to child, add ignored signal handling by @ChrisDryden in #10254

touch

• fix: touch -r: dangling symlink reference is accepted Fixes #9703 by @dshemetov in #9732
• Use libc::UTIME_NOW in touch when updating time to now by @iburaky2 in #9870
• fix: use jiff time for touch tests by @aaron-ang in #10093
• extent a test for many device files by @oech3 in #10199

truncate

• eliminate duplicate stat() syscall by @Jean-Christian-Cirstea in #9527

tsort

• gnu misc tsort.pl by @mattsu2020 in #9289
• perf (tsort) : avoid reading the whole input into memory and intern strings by @anastygnome in #9872
• Disable tsort_input_parsing_heavy for being too intermittent by @sylvestre in #10109

uname

• remove unwrap() for > /dev/full by @oech3 in #10517

unexpand

• use byte count for multibyte characters for column width when using -a flag by @JaneIllario in #9949
• add support for extended tab stop syntax (+N and /N) by @sylvestre in #9265
• fix +0 and /0 handling, add integration tests by @ChrisDryden in #10406

uniq

• optimize memory usage for ignore-case comparison by @CrazyRoka in #10050
• rename keys_differ to keys_are_equal by @cakebaker in #10070

uptime

• Fix uptime on macOS using sysctl kern.boottime fallback by @naoNao89 in #8908
• refactor(uptime): use FluentArgs for loadavg formatting in get_format by @mattsu2020 in #10102
• Add -p, --pretty argument by @Ivan-Shaml in #10143

users

• Avoid > /dev/full panic by @oech3 in #10165

wc

• GNU wc-cpu.sh by @mattsu2020 in #9144
• Ensure the output order of stdout and stderror remains unchanged. by @mattsu2020 in #9905
• respect POSIXLY_CORRECT for word counting by @dhr412 in #10344
• fix word undercount with invalid byte sequences by @dhr412 in #10348
• --debug 2>/dev/full does not fail by @oech3 in #10590

yes

• Silently handle broken pipe on windows by @ChrisDryden in #10429

uucore

• use --suffix to enable backup mode by @jacek-kurlit in #9741
• parser: add binary support to determine_number_system and parse_size by @csko in #9659
• locale.rs: move more code outside of the unsafe block by @sylvestre in #9720
• fix clippy::pedantic warnings in build.rs and generated locale code by @skjha98 in #9837
• Remove lossy OS string conversions by @blyxxyz in #9337
• document that libselinux caches is_selinux_enabled by @ChrisDryden in #9873
• switch to BigDecimal::powi implementation by @xtqqczze in #9957
• uucore/uptime: remove unreachable code on Windows by @cakebaker in #9985
• fsext.rs: Replace getmntinfo with libc by @oech3 in #10075
• refactor: use jiff for safer time features by @aaron-ang in #10118
• use the enable_pipe_errors instead of libc::signal by @sylvestre in #10113
• feat: Expand safe directory traversal to all Unix platforms and fix related type conversions. by @abendrothj in #9792
• simplify cfg checks in signals.rs by @sylvestre in #10296
• centralize SIGPIPE handling in main macro by @ChrisDryden in #10354
• uucore(fs): expand path normalization by @FidelSch in #10532

uudoc

• style(uudoc): update header formatting for options and examples by @hwhsu1231 in #10004
• print tldr.zip warning only once per process by @rynewang in #10039

coreutils

• Remove limitation for prefix by @oech3 in #10261
• Drop find_prefixed_util by @oech3 in #10306
• uu: fix typo by @antonkesy in #10170
• fix: properly handle write errors for --version and --help output by @naoNao89 in #10223

Platform Support

• Add more Cygwin support by @500-internal-server-error in #9686
• Bump mio for cygwin by @oech3 in #9809
• clippy: allow "cygwin" as value for "target_os" by @cakebaker in #10054
• fix: allow selinux on android by @xtqqczze in #10419
• runcon, chcon: Don't fetch crates at unsupported target by @oech3 in #10360

CI & Build

• GnuTests: Reduce gnproc deps on BSD by @oech3 in #9644
• GnuTests: Split online process to a script by @oech3 in #9652
• GnuTests: Caches for faster configure and skipping make by @oech3 in #9627
• run-gnu-test.sh: Fix nproc broken by cache by @oech3 in #9735
• build-gnu.sh: Move {ch,run}con tests to Fedora VM and avoid wrong result by @oech3 in #9607
• GnuTests.yml: Fix caches by @oech3 in #9739
• build-gnu.sh: Don't hack test suite to force-enable tests by @oech3 in #9744
• GnuTests.yml: Discard caches at each build-gnu.sh update by @oech3 in #9753
• build-gnu.sh: Enable test/df/no-mtab-status.sh by @oech3 in #9759
• GNUmakefile: Prepend PROG_PREFIX to LIBSTDBUF_DIR too by @oech3 in #9068
• build-gnu.sh: correct path suggestion for fetch-gnu.sh by @nutthawit in #9788
• is_a_tty.sh: Reduce lines by @oech3 in #9814
• ci: add Non UTF8 locale for GNU tests by @ChrisDryden in #9807
• Avoid wrong PASS of cp-mv-enotsup-xattr runcon-compute and enable 1 test by @oech3 in #9743
• CI: Add SMACK test runner for GNU tests by @ChrisDryden in #9888
• openbsd ci: try to remove more temporary files by @sylvestre in #9904
• build-gnu.sh: Use MULTICALL=y and skip not used utils for faster build by @oech3 in #9567
• CICD.yml: Avoid no space left much more by @oech3 in #9907
• GnuTests.yml: Stop manpage generation to reduce size of log by @oech3 in #9943
• CICD.yml: Avoid no space left again by @oech3 in #9939
• GnuTests: Drop texinfo dep by @oech3 in #9944
• GnuTests.yml: install Rust without rustfmt by @cakebaker in #9947
• openbsd.yml: Replace cargo cache related disk space hack by @oech3 in #9917
• GnuTests.yml: Drop autopoint by @oech3 in #9965
• GnuTests.yml: Drop git from VM by @oech3 in #9969
• build-gnu.sh: Skip make at SELinux tests by @oech3 in #9970
• build-gnu.sh: Drop a variable & cleanup by @oech3 in #9953
• GnuTests.yml: use minimal Rust profile in VM by @cakebaker in #9977
• benchmarks: use simulation mode by @cakebaker in #9986
• CI: Default build artifact for riscv64+musl on CICD.yml by @ffgan in #10029
• ci: set -no-metrics for Android emulator by @cakebaker in #10051
• build-gnu.sh: Let md5sum.pl clap compatible by @oech3 in #10065
• FixPR.yml: Use cargo fetch --target $(rustc --print host-tuple) by @oech3 in #10074
• ci: add Codecov Test Analytics integration by @ChrisDryden in #10091
• Add some intermittent tests to the list by @sylvestre in #10104
• ci: re-enable i686-musl platform by @cakebaker in #10127
• ci: add df/skip-rootfs test to SMACK/ROOTFS CI by @ChrisDryden in #10150
• cp: Adding dd to SELinux CI to enable cp-a-selinux by @ChrisDryden in #10148
• run-gnu-tests-smack-ci.sh: Use release-small profile for faster build by @oech3 in #10144
• run-gnu-tests-smack-ci.sh: Use multi-call binary for faster build by @oech3 in #10162
• build-gnu.sh: Build seq as multicall-binary by @oech3 in #10152
• GNUmakefile: Support CARGO_BUILD_TARGET by @oech3 in #9223
• make build-gnu.sh reentrant by @sylvestre in #10180
• CICD.yml: Upload binaries from latest commit too by @oech3 in #10212
• freebsd.yml: Avoid no space left on device by @oech3 in #10203
• CICD.yml: Upload uudoc at least for Linux-x64-glibc by @oech3 in #10231
• benchmarks: Add memory benchmarks by @sylvestre in #10229
• CICD.yml: Drop checks for hashsum by @oech3 in #10259
• try to decrease the variance in the memory usage for benchmark by @sylvestre in #10273
• CICD.yml: Upload manpages and completions by @oech3 in #10257
• CICD.yml: upload binaries without version string by @oech3 in #10217
• CI: Purge disk space at background to avoid delaying by @oech3 in #10276
• GnuTests.yml: Dedup setenforce 1 by @oech3 in #10266
• build-gnu.sh: Replace ${SED} with gsed wrapper by @oech3 in #10201
• bench: try to remove more variances by @sylvestre in #10277
• bench: reduce memory variance in cp and numfmt benchmarks by @sylvestre in #10283
• ci: ensure test failures are caught in coverage script and fix them by @sylvestre in #10286
• bench: fix variance in remaining numfmt benchmarks by @sylvestre in #10292
• CICD.yml: Remove zsh completion for [ by @oech3 in https://github.com//pull/10278
• CICD.yml: Add man and completion for coreutils(1) to docs.tar.zst by @oech3 in #10299
• prepare release 0.6.0 by @sylvestre in #10291
• CIDD.yml: cargo fetch platform spec crates only by @oech3 in #10304
• build-gnu.sh: Enable help-version-getopt.sh (PASS) by @oech3 in #10305
• CICD.yml: Stop manually stripping by @oech3 in #10311
• GnuTests: Replace incompat tests & drop obsolete hack by @oech3 in #9976
• Backport tests/env/env.sh for better multicall support by @oech3 in #10337
• CICD.yml: Drop unused apt-get by @oech3 in #10343
• CICD.yml: Upload individual bins to release by @oech3 in #10338
• CICD.yml: Drop a toolchain outside of VM by @oech3 in #10381
• ci: move -no-metrics to COMMON_EMULATOR_OPTIONS by @cakebaker in #10385
• CICD.yml: Filter-out non-SELinux progs on SELinux test by @oech3 in #10382
• l10n.yml: Use git clone --depth=1 by @oech3 in #10367
• Don't build coreutils without MULTICALL=y by @oech3 in #10359
• gnu: patch inotify-race tests to use Rust gdb breakpoints by @ChrisDryden in #9908
• fetch-gnu: add tests/tail/inotify-dir-recreate.sh by @ChrisDryden in #10392
• ci: generate the french locale for benchmark by @sylvestre in #10398
• ci: disable memory profiling in benchmarks due to variance by @sylvestre in #10399
• check-safe-traversal.sh: Support any profile by @oech3 in #10401
• android.yml: Drop x86 by @oech3 in #10353
• CICD.yml: Merge 2 tests by @oech3 in #10424
• openbsd.yml: Try to reduce time by @oech3 in #10423
• freebsd.yml: Drop useless cache actions by @oech3 in #10362
• Reduce duplicated management of supported utils by @oech3 in #10409
• fix(ci): remove outdated analysis mode by @not-matthias in #10414
• Zsh suspended by @sylvestre in #10431
• fix(CI): clippy unnecessary unwrap by @aaron-ang in #10435
• ci/android: use --locked when installing nextest by @cakebaker in #10467
• CI: Disable incremental build for faster CI by @oech3 in #10462
• CICD.yml: Merge 2 "separately" by @oech3 in #10425
• fuzzing.yml: Reproducible toolchain setup by @oech3 in #10487
• ci: show diff for toml_format by @xtqqczze in #10501
• CICD: Remove unused rustfmt by @oech3 in #10509
• build-gnu.sh: remove workaround for timeout/yes by @Ecordonnier in #10505
• GnuTests: Drop cache action outside of VM, use preinstalled rust by @oech3 in #10504
• GNUmakefile: Complete TEST_PROGS by @oech3 in #10495
• CICD.yml: (partial) reproducible toolchain setup by @oech3 in #10500
• ci: use toolchain override shorthand by @xtqqczze in #10600
• GnuTests: Save setup time 9 min+ by @oech3 in #10557
• GNUmakefile: Drop HASHSUM by @oech3 in #10634
• Enable cat, sort, readlink and tr tests in busybox test suite by @ChrisDryden in #9850

Code Quality & Cleanup

• clippy: fix map_unwrap_or lint by @xtqqczze in #9678
• clippy: fix ptr lints by @xtqqczze in #9687
• clippy: enable needless_raw_string_hashes lint by @cakebaker in #9840
• clippy: fix uninlined_format_args lint by @xtqqczze in #9962
• Enable clippy::assigning_clones on OpenBSD by @xtqqczze in #9956
• Bump signal-hook & add it to skip list by @cakebaker in #9979
• benchmark: some minor improvements by @sylvestre in #9928
• mac: change the delay value to avoid intermittent by @sylvestre in #9895
• fix test_backup_mode_suffix_without_backup_option test on mac by @sylvestre in #9891
• fix: reduce factor parallel test runtime by @aaron-ang in #10136
• deny.toml: add constant_time_eq to skip list by @cakebaker in #10137
• deny.toml: remove constant_time_eq from skip list by @cakebaker in #10176
• fix: handle /dev/full write errors gracefully by @naoNao89 in #10062
• benchmarks: reduce allocations in run_util_function by @xtqqczze in #10378
• uutests: replace unsafe libc::stat with nix::stat by @xtqqczze in #10364
• deny.toml: remove wasi from skip list by @cakebaker in #10355
• fuzz: fix clippy lints by @xtqqczze in #10466
• clippy: fix used_underscore_binding lint by @xtqqczze in #10058
• clippy: fix needless_continue lint by @xtqqczze in #10340
• clippy: remove assigning_clones lint suppression by @xtqqczze in #10377
• clippy: fix map_clone lint by @xtqqczze in #10619
• deny.toml: remove unmatched items from skip list by @xtqqczze in #10605
• refactor: rename print functions to write for consistency by @xtqqczze in #10536
• editorconfig: specify toml settings by @xtqqczze in #10601

Documentation

• README.md: Guide people to release page or main by @oech3 in #9709
• DEVELOPMENT.md: Remove a wrong desc by @oech3 in #9717
• why-error.md: Cleanup by @oech3 in #9738
• why-error.md: Remove 2 tests by @oech3 in #9799
• why-error.md: Remove 1 test by @oech3 in #9826
• why-*.md: Drop as issue is enough by @oech3 in #9835
• CONTRIBUTING.md: update crate structure by @cakebaker in #9861
• CONTRIBUTING.md: Bug report with LANG=C by @oech3 in #9890
• README.md: Avoid losting unix specific progs by @oech3 in #9867
• DEVELOPMENT.md: mention nightly requirement for code coverage by @nutthawit in #9919
• contrib: add info about expectations and ping by @sylvestre in #10275
• {README,CONTRIBUTIONS}.md: Add link to binaries from latest commit by @oech3 in #10280
• README.package.md: Fix MSRV by @oech3 in #10485

Dependency Updates

• chore(deps): update rust crate console to v0.16.2 by @renovate[bot] in #9675
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.62 by @renovate[bot] in #9698
• chore(deps): update rust crate zip to v7 by @renovate[bot] in #9731
• chore(deps): update rust crate crc-fast to v1.8.2 by @renovate[bot] in #9730
• chore(deps): update rust crate linux-raw-sys to v0.12.1 by @renovate[bot] in #9787
• chore(deps): update rust crate divan to v4.2.0 by @renovate[bot] in #9786
• chore(deps): update rust crate crc-fast to v1.9.0 by @renovate[bot] in #9791
• chore(deps): update rust crate jiff to v0.2.17 by @renovate[bot] in #9830
• chore(deps): update dawidd6/action-download-artifact action to v12 by @renovate[bot] in #9836
• chore(deps): update rust crate proc-macro2 to v1.0.104 by @renovate[bot] in #9878
• chore(deps): update rust crate bigdecimal to v0.4.10 by @renovate[bot] in #9880
• chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v6 by @renovate[bot] in #9896
• chore(deps): update rust crate self_cell to v1.2.2 by @renovate[bot] in #9927
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.64 by @renovate[bot] in #9909
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.54 by @renovate[bot] in #10000
• Bump libc to 0.2.178 with fix for FreeBSD by @oech3 in #10046
• chore(deps): update rust crate jiff to v0.2.18 by @renovate[bot] in #10084
• chore(deps): update rust crate proc-macro2 to v1.0.105 by @renovate[bot] in #10085
• chore(deps): update rust crate quote to v1.0.43 by @renovate[bot] in #10087
• chore(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.179 by @renovate[bot] in #8717
• chore(deps): update rust crate divan to v4.2.1 by @renovate[bot] in #10103
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.65 by @renovate[bot] in #10106
• chore(deps): update rust crate libc to v0.2.180 by @renovate[bot] in #10126
• replace bincode by wincode by @sylvestre in #10134
• chore(deps): update rust crate blake3 to v1.8.3 by @renovate[bot] in #10132
• chore(deps): update rust crate data-encoding-macro to v0.1.19 by @renovate[bot] in #10163
• chore(deps): update rust crate blake2b_simd to v1.0.4 by @renovate[bot] in #10168
• chore(deps): update rust crate rand_core to v0.9.4 by @renovate[bot] in #10202
• chore(deps): update rust crate time to v0.3.45 by @renovate[bot] in #10216
• chore(deps): update rust crate rand_core to v0.9.5 by @renovate[bot] in #10215
• chore(deps): update rust crate zip to v7.1.0 by @renovate[bot] in #10237
• chore(deps): update rust crate filetime to v0.2.27 by @renovate[bot] in #10336
• chore(deps): update rust crate thiserror to v2.0.18 by @renovate[bot] in #10329
• deps: remove unused rust crate linux-raw-sys by @xtqqczze in #10374
• chore(deps): update rust crate zip to v7.2.0 by @renovate[bot] in #10387
• chore(deps): update rust crate divan to v4.3.0 by @renovate[bot] in #10413
• deps: remove unused rust deps by @xtqqczze in #10404
• chore(deps): update rust crate proc-macro2 to v1.0.106 by @renovate[bot] in #10420
• fix(deps): remove duplicate itertools package by @xtqqczze in #10440
• fix(deps): refactor nix package configuration by @xtqqczze in #10441
• chore(deps): update rust crate quote to v1.0.44 by @renovate[bot] in #10446
• fix(deps): refactor xattr package configuration by @xtqqczze in #10454
• fix(deps): refactor rlimit package configuration by @xtqqczze in #10464
• chore(deps): update rust crate signal-hook to v0.4.2 by @renovate[bot] in #10468
• chore(deps): update rust crate signal-hook to v0.4.3 by @renovate[bot] in #10472
• deps: refactor crossterm package configuration by @xtqqczze in #10484
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.55 by @renovate[bot] in #10521
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.55 by @renovate[bot] in #10544
• chore(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.56 by @renovate[bot] in #10568
• chore(deps): update dawidd6/action-download-artifact action to v13 by @renovate[bot] in #10586
• chore(deps): update dawidd6/action-download-artifact action to v14 by @renovate[bot] in #10641
• chore(deps): update rust crate rlimit to 0.11.0 by @renovate[bot] in #10645

New Contributors

• @xtqqczze made their first contribution in #9678
• @Jean-Christian-Cirstea made their first contribution in #9527
• @jacek-kurlit made their first contribution in #9741
• @csko made their first contribution in #9659
• @nutthawit made their first contribution in #9788
• @dshemetov made their first contribution in #9732
• @500-internal-server-error made their first contribution in #9686
• @CrazyRoka made their first contribution in #9681
• @skjha98 made their first contribution in #9837
• @alexandrefresnais made their first contribution in #9526
• @iburaky2 made their first contribution in #9870
• @georgepaulsen made their first contribution in #9951
• @SaathwikDasari made their first contribution in #9946
• @JaneIllario made their first contribution in #9949
• @Dylans123 made their first contribution in #9960
• @max-amb made their first contribution in #9945
• @van-sprundel made their first contribution in #9975
• @ffgan made their first contribution in #10029
• @hwhsu1231 made their first contribution in #10004
• @rynewang made their first contribution in #10038
• @Thanhphan1147 made their first contribution in #9757
• @AnuthaDev made their first contribution in #10090
• @abendrothj made their first contribution in #9792
• @antonkesy made their first contribution in #10170
• @Ivan-Shaml made their first contribution in #10143
• @bkueng made their first contribution in #8615
• @Xylphy made their first contribution in #10224
• @dhr412 made their first contribution in #10268
• @Dolphindalt made their first contribution in #10067
• @quantum-encoding made their first contribution in #9176
• @GomesGoncalo made their first contribution in #10232
• @AnandajithS made their first contribution in #9114
• @trypsynth made their first contribution in #10209
• @w007878 made their first contribution in #10369
• @Paol0B made their first contribution in #10206
• @Kaua-Klassmann made their first contribution in #10339
• @not-matthias made their first contribution in #10414
• @0xferrous made their first contribution in #10412
• @3v1n0 made their first contribution in #10439
• @reubenwong97 made their first contribution in #10566
• @ChiamakaUI made their first contribution in #10582

Full Changelog: 0.5.0...0.6.0