📦 Findutils 0.9.1 Release

Findutils 0.9.1 is a robustness and portability release. It follows up quickly on the 0.9.0 milestone (which introduced locate/updatedb) by hardening the existing utilities against a series of panics on malformed or unusual input, adding WebAssembly (wasm32-wasip1) build support, shipping statically linked musl binaries for Linux, and reworking how we track GNU/bfs test-suite compatibility in CI.

This release saw the first contribution from @leeewee, who landed most of the panic fixes below.

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GNU Test Suite Compatibility

Starting with this release, compatibility is tracked per individual test (PASS/FAIL/SKIP by test name) rather than by an aggregate count — see “Per-test compatibility tracking” below. Under the new per-test accounting, 0.9.1 stands at:

0.9.1 is primarily a robustness/infrastructure release, so find/xargs matching semantics are essentially unchanged from 0.9.0; the panic fixes harden edge cases (malformed brackets, multibyte escapes, unmapped UIDs, short databases) rather than altering option behavior.

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

Highlights

Robustness — no more panics on malformed input

• find -ls: don’t panic on an unmapped owner UID/GID by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/721
• find -name: don’t panic on a malformed POSIX bracket class by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/722
• find -printf: don’t panic on a multibyte char after an octal escape by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/723
• find -printf: correctly test an octal escape before a multibyte char by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/727
• find -printf: reject an over-large field width instead of panicking by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/734
• xargs: do not panic on empty input in replace (-I) mode by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/736
• locate: don’t panic on a too-short --database file by @leeewee in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/718

Portability: WebAssembly and static musl binaries

• Support compiling for non-Unix targets such as wasm, and build + lint the wasm32-wasip1 target in CI by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/725
• Build statically linked musl binaries for x86_64 and aarch64 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/741

xargs

• Clarify the -x and -t help text by @jmr in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/708

Project, CI & release

• Per-test GNU/bfs comparison and PR comment, modeled on the uutils sed/grep GnuTests workflow by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/726
• Define the [profile.dist] used by cargo-dist by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/739
• Inherit lto = "thin" in Cargo.toml by @oech3 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/740
• Add 2 missing binaries to latest-commit by @oech3 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/743
• CONTRIBUTING.md: replace coreutils references with findutils by @oech3 in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/738

Dependencies

Dependency and GitHub Action bumps via Dependabot and a manual crate refresh (@xtqqczze, #729): itertools (0.14.0 → 0.15.0, #742), regex (1.12.3 → 1.12.4, #728), cargo-dist (0.28.0 → 0.32.0, #748), actions/checkout (4 → 6 → 7, #711/#744), codecov/codecov-action (6 → 7, #712), and moonrepo/setup-rust (0 → 1, #709).

New Contributors

• @leeewee made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/findutils/pull/718

Full Changelog: https://github.com/uutils/findutils/compare/0.9.0…0.9.1

Install findutils 0.9.1

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/uutils/findutils/releases/download/0.9.1/findutils-installer.sh | sh

Download findutils 0.9.1