📦 Findutils 0.10.0 Release

Findutils 0.10.0 is a GNU-compatibility and robustness release. It sharpens several find behaviors that silently differed from GNU (-printf %T+ formatting, -newerXY predicate validation, --files0-from input validation), fixes an xargs bug where the default command line size could make execvp() fail with E2BIG, improves xargs length accounting on Windows, and continues the campaign of turning panics on malformed input into proper error messages.

This release also folds in the 0.9.2 changes: 0.9.2 was prepared in-tree but no release was cut from it, so everything below covers the full 0.9.1 → 0.10.0 range.

Five people made their first contribution to findutils in this cycle: @SAY-5, @lhecker, @l46983284-cpu, @wtcpython and @aki-kong.

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GNU Test Suite Compatibility

Compatibility is tracked per individual test (PASS/FAIL/SKIP by test name). 0.10.0 stands at:

Compared to 0.9.1, one more GNU test passes (417 vs 416). The bfs suite gained a test upstream (314 vs 313) which findutils does not pass yet, so the pass count is unchanged.

For more details, visit https://github.com/uutils/findutils-tracking/.

Highlights

GNU compatibility fixes

• find -printf: print a fixed-width fraction for %T+ — chrono’s %.f drops the fraction (and the leading dot) when the sub-second part is zero, while GNU always prints a dot followed by ten fractional digits, by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/792
• find: reject invalid -newerXY predicates like GNU — the parser used an unanchored regex, so tokens such as -neweraBcmty were accepted as a truncated -neweraB, by @l46983284-cpu in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/784
• find: reject invalid UTF-8 in --files0-from by @wtcpython in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/798
• xargs: cap the default command line size at 128 KiB — sizing command lines up to ARG_MAX made execvp() fail with E2BIG, since the kernel also charges the argv/envp pointer arrays against the limit. An explicit -s may still raise the limit, as with GNU. By @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/791
• xargs: account for quoting on Windows when computing length limits by @lhecker in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/788

Robustness — errors instead of panics

• find: report an unparsable -newerXt year instead of panicking by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/762
• locate: report write errors instead of panicking by @SAY-5 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/785
• locate: ignore an unrepresentable --max-database-age instead of panicking by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/768
• find: skip broken pipe errors in wasm executions by @aki-kong in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/802

Error messages

• find: avoid the duplicated find: find: prefix in two error messages by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/774

Project & CI

• clippy: fix warnings (byte_char_slices, useless_borrows_in_formatting, question_mark, manual_assert_eq) by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/755
• Release 0.9.2 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/793
• Release 0.10.0 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/804

Dependencies

Dependency and GitHub Action bumps via Dependabot and manual refreshes by @cakebaker: anyhow (1.0.102 → 1.0.103, #751), crossbeam-epoch (0.9.18 → 0.9.20, #754), clap (4.6.1 → 4.6.4, #763/#787/#790), regex (1.12.4 → 1.13.1, #765), ctor (1.0.7 → 1.0.12, #752/#764/#789/#796/#800), thiserror (2.0.18 → 2.0.19, #786), and CodSpeedHQ/action (4 → 5.0.1, #799/#803).

New Contributors

• @SAY-5 made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/785
• @lhecker made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/788
• @l46983284-cpu made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/784
• @wtcpython made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/798
• @aki-kong made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/802

Full Changelog: https://github.com/uutils/findutils/compare/0.9.1…0.10.0

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Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/uutils/findutils/releases/download/0.10.0/findutils-installer.sh | sh

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