Findutils 4.2.17 is now available on alpha.gnu.org

[James Youngman]

I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.17 of GNU
findutils.  This is another bugfix release; the list of bugs fixes
appears below.

GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match
certain criteria and for performing various operations on them.
Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate".

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* Major changes in release 4.2.17
** Bug Fixes
*** bug #11861  undefined symbol "basename" on IRIX 5.3 
*** bug #11865  xargs -i regression  (as compared to findutils-4.2.12)
*** bug #11866  Typo in pred_okdir reders it useless (affecting 4.2.16 only)
*** patch #3723 fix recent process_top_path change (for -execdir on /)
*** Fixing bug #11866 and applying patch #3723 made -execdir work much better.
*** find bar/baz/ugh now works again if baz is a symbolic link (broken 
    in 4.2.15).
*** The 'find' test suite now works better when run on systems in a 
    variety of locales.

I'd particularly like to thank Dmitry V. Levin for a rather large
number of helpful pointers and tactful hints.

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James Youngman <address@hidden>
GNU findutils maintainer