A new stable version of the core system utilities GNU Coreutils 9.11 has been released. GNU Coreutils is a set of essential programs including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls.
Key updates in this release include improvements to several utilities:
- The cut, nl, unexpand, and expand utilities now support multi-byte characters.
- The cut utility has added new options such as “-w”, “-F”, and “-O” for better compatibility with other systems.
- The cat and yes utilities now enjoy faster performance on Linux input/output without buffering, with some tests showing a speedup of up to 15 times.
- Improvements have been made to file name escaping in “cksum –check”.
- The date utility now features date parsing in the “dd.mm.yy” format.
- Optimizations have been made to “shuf -i” operations, resulting in a speed improvement of up to 2 times.
- The performance of “wc” has been boosted by up to 2.6 times when processing multi-byte characters.
- On ARM systems with NEON instructions, the execution of “wc -l” is now up to 4.5 times faster.
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