Bug 856807
| Summary: | patch-2.7.1 is available | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Upstream Release Monitoring <upstream-release-monitoring> |
| Component: | patch | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | barsnick, c719711, twaugh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | patch-2.7.1-1.fc19 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-10-18 17:40:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Upstream Release Monitoring
2012-09-12 20:21:29 UTC
Latest upstream release: 2.7.1 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 2.6.1 URL: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring Changes in version 2.7.1: * Two critical bug fixes in the "diff --git" format support. * Clarify the message printed when a patch is expected to empty out and delete a file, but the file does not become empty. * Various improvements to messages when applying a patch to a file of different type (regular file vs. symlink), when there are line ending differences (LF vs. CRLF), and when in --dry-run mode. * When in the root directory, allow file names that are absolute or that contain a component of "..". * New --follow-symlinks option to allow to treat symlinks as files: this was patch's behavior before version 2.7. * Ignore when extended attributes cannot be preserved because they are unsupported or because permission to set them is denied. * License clarifications in NEWS and README. * Portability bug fixes. Changes in version 2.7: * Patch no longer gets a failed assertion for certain mangled patches. * Ignore destination file names that are absolute or that contain a component of "..". This addresses CVE-2010-4651. * Support for most features of the "diff --git" format, including renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs. Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them. * Support for double-quoted filenames: when a filename starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are recognized. * Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous versions of patch were replacing the symlink with a regular file.) * When trying to modify a read-only file, warn about the potential problem by default. The --read-only command line option allows to change this behavior. * Files to be deleted are deleted once the entire input has been processed, not immediately. This fixes a bug with numbered backup files. * When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of assuming the local time zone (--set-date) or Universal Coordinated Time (--set-utc). * Support for nanosecond precision timestamps. * Many portability and bug fixes. |