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📦 Findutils 0.3.0 Release

Findutils 0.3.0 (tagged 2022-01-26) has no GitHub release page, so these notes were reconstructed from the git history between the 0.1.0 and 0.3.0 tags. The version was bumped to 0.2.0 during this period, but no 0.2.0 tag or release was ever published — so this entry covers everything since 0.1.0.

The headline change is the first implementation of xargs, which makes the project a two-utility suite. This release also adds -regex, -print0 and GNU-compatible -printf, and sets up the compatibility testing against the GNU and bfs test suites that the project still relies on.

Highlights

xargs

  • An initial implementation of xargs by @refi64 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/121

find: new features

  • GNU-compatible -printf by @refi64 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/120
  • -regex matching by @refi64 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/126
  • -print0 by @refi64 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/123
  • --version on the command line by @sylvestre

find: fixes

  • Make multi--exec only match {} + with nothing in between by @tavianator in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/91
  • -exec: handle parent directories more carefully by @tavianator in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/92

Compatibility testing

  • Automated compatibility tests, in two parts, by @refi64 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/129 and https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/130
  • A script to run the GNU findutils test suite, run it in CI, allow running a single test, avoid rebuilding GNU every time, and document the workflow, by @sylvestre
  • Run the bfs test suite in CI by @tavianator

Project & infrastructure

  • Code coverage restored via Codecov by @sylvestre
  • tempdir replaced by tempfile, and tempfile moved to dev-dependencies (cargo udeps) by @sylvestre
  • uucore updated to 0.0.12 by @refi64
  • Migration to GitHub-native Dependabot
  • Clippy cleanups, README updates (crates.io badge, Travis badge removed) and removal of the unused AUTHORS file by @sylvestre

Contributors

@refi64, @sylvestre and @tavianator.