[bug-diffutils] new snapshot available: diffutils-2.8.7.131-cc56

[Jim Meyering]

A diffutils release is overdue, so here's a snapshot of the latest.
In the absence of new bug reports, I expect to release diffutils-2.9
some time next week.

If distributions are carrying patches that they'd
like to have included, now is the time.  Anyone can
propose patches, but those that include git-format-patch
style diffs, well-written log entries, NEWS updates (when needed),
and added test cases will get especially high priority.


diffutils snapshot: (.gz files are here, too)
  http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz      972 KB
  http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-2.8.7.131-cc56.tar.xz

There are .gz and .sig files here, too:
  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz
  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/diff/diffutils-2.8.7.131-cc56.tar.xz

Here's the NEWS so far:

** New features

  New diff option --suppress-blank-empty.

  Bring back support for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number,
  even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001.  This change reverts to
  the behavior of GNU diff 2.7 and earlier.  This is a change only
  when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001; there is no effect when
  conforming to older POSIX versions.

  This change is in response to decisions taken in the January 2005
  Austin Group standardization meeting.  For more details, please see
  "Utility Syntax Guidelines" in the Minutes of the January 2005
  Meeting <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_239.html>.

  sdiff now understands '1' and '2' as synonyms for 'l' and 'r'.

** Changes in behavior

  sdiff and diff3 now invoke diff, not $(bindir)/diff

** Administrivia

  New discussion and bug-reporting address: address@hidden

  updated gnulib support