Shkarko coreutils 0.4.0

📦 Rust Coreutils 0.4.0 Release:
We are pleased to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.4.0 — continuing our journey toward full GNU compatibility with improved test coverage, enhanced functionality, and robust implementations!
Highlights:
- Enhanced GNU Compatibility
- 544 passing tests (+12 from 0.3.0), achieving 85.80% compatibility
- Reduced failures from 68 to 56 (-12)
- Better compatibility with GNU date timezone handling
- Algorithm & Performance Improvements
- factor: Integrated num_prime crate for faster u64/u128 factorization
- tsort: Fixed stack overflow issues with iterative DFS implementation
- cksum: Added comprehensive performance benchmarks
- mkdir: Fixed stack overflow with deeply nested directories
- Platform Support Enhancements
- OpenBSD support for stdbuf and uptime
- FreeBSD build and test improvements
- Better cross-platform compatibility
- hashsum Reorganization
- Removed non-GNU binaries to fix interface divergence
- Merged functionality into cksum for better GNU compatibility
- Marked hashsum as deprecated in favor of cksum
- Contributions: This release was made possible by the dedication of 17 contributors, including 4 newcomers.
GNU Test Suite Compatibility:
──────┬─────┬─────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────────────
Result│0.3.0│0.4.0│Change 0.3.0 to 0.4.0│% Total 0.3.0│% Total 0.4.0│% Change 0.3.0 to 0.4.0
──────┼─────┼─────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────
Pass │532 │544 │+12 │83.91% │85.80% │+1.89%
──────┼─────┼─────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────
Skip │33 │33 │0 │5.20% │5.20% │+0.01%
──────┼─────┼─────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────
Fail │68 │56 │-12 │10.73% │8.83% │-1.90%
──────┼─────┼─────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────
Error │1 │1 │0 │0.16% │0.16% │0%
──────┼─────┼─────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────
Total │634 │634 │0 │ │ │
──────┴─────┴─────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────────
GNU testsuite evolution
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What's Changed
base64
- Align base64 with GNU base64.pl tests by @karanabe in #9194
cat
- Fix EINTR handling in cat by @naoNao89 in #8946
- fix(cat): refine unsafe overwrite detection for appending files by @mattsu2020 in #9122
chown
- Fix chown tests for FreeBSD and macOS by @akretz in #9058
cksum
- Refactor cksum for incoming merge with hashsum, Fix behavior for --text and --untagged by @RenjiSann in #9024
- Fix "cksum: --length 0 shouldn't fail for algorithms that don't support --length" by @RenjiSann in #9032
- Add support for sha2, sha3 by @RenjiSann in #9035
- Fix GNU cksum-c.sh and cksum-sha3.sh by @RenjiSann in #9063
- add cksum performance benchmarks by @naoNao89 in #9075
- fix(cksum): correct CRC32B implementation to match GNU cksum by @naoNao89 in #9026
comm
- Fix EINTR handling in comm by @naoNao89 in #8946
- hold the stdin lock for the whole duration of the program by @andreacorbellini in #9085
date
- fix(date): support timezone abbreviations in date --set by @naoNao89 in #8944
- date, touch: fix parse_datetime 0.13.0 compatibility by @naoNao89 in #8843
- improve compat with GNU by @sylvestre in #9022
- remove chrono by @cakebaker in #9048
- add --uct alias and allow multiple option aliases together by @sylvestre in #9181
dd
- fix(dd): handle O_DIRECT partial block writes by @naoNao89 in #9016
du
- fix dead code warnings in test on Android by @cakebaker in #9131
- disable some benchmarks by @sylvestre in #9167
- also disable du_human_balanced_tree as benchmark by @sylvestre in #9198
factor
- base benchmarking for single/multiple u64, u128, and >u128 by @asder8215 in #9182
- use num_prime crate's u64 and u128 factorization methods to speed up the performance by @asder8215 in #9171
hashsum
- don't fail on dirs by @Ada-Armstrong in #8930
- Remove non-GNU binaries (fix cksum interface divergence) by @oech3 in #9153
install
- fix the error message by @sylvestre in #9188
ls
- use file path for ACL check by @akretz in #9055
mkdir
- Fix stack overflow with deeply nested directories by @naoNao89 in #8947
- remove #[allow(unused_variables)] by @cakebaker in #9109
od
- Fix EINTR handling in od by @naoNao89 in #8946
printenv
- add more tests by @ya7on in #9151
printf
- handle extremely large format widths gracefully to fix GNU test panic by @sylvestre in #9133
readlink
- fix(readlink): emit GNU-style Invalid argument for non-symlinks by @karanabe in #9189
stdbuf
- add support for OpenBSD by @lcheylus in #9185
timeout
- add missing extra help by @matttbe in #9160
truncate
- feat(truncate): allow negative size values for truncation by @mattsu2020 in #9129
tsort
- use iterative dfs to prevent stack overflows by @Nekrolm in #8737
- fix minimal cycle reporting and precise back-edge removal by @naoNao89 in #8786
uptime
- Fix build and tests for uptime on OpenBSD by @lcheylus in #9158
- fix clippy warning manual-let-else on OpenBSD by @lcheylus in #9193
uudoc
- respect SKIP_UTILS by @oech3 in #8982
- Add example to manpage by @Its-Just-Nans in #7841
Documentation
- release notes: add 0.2.2 by @sylvestre in #8998
- README: Fix coverage badge URL by @RenjiSann in #9046
- README.md: Fix about manpage generation by @oech3 in #8994
- README.md: Show how to build all individual bins by cargo by @oech3 in #9069
- extensions.md: mark hashsum as deprecated by @oech3 in #9089
- doc: rename file by @sylvestre in #9208
CI & Build
- chore(deps): update github artifact actions (major) by @renovate[bot] in #8997
- publish script: add progress by @sylvestre in #9008
- GNUmakefile: Add a value for cross-build by @oech3 in #9015
- GNUmakefile: Don't install part of hashsum if we excluded hashsum by @oech3 in #9036
- ci: remove code_format job from FixPR workflow by @cakebaker in #9043
- Append .bash to completions by @oech3 in #9049
- ci: remove deprecated lima-actions/ssh by @cakebaker in #9054
- GNUmakefile: Do not use install -v by @oech3 in #9051
- GNUmakefile: Reduce deps & minor cleanup by @oech3 in #9065
- CICD.yml: stop ci for redox by @oech3 in #9112
- ci: adapt template name for Lima v2.0 by @cakebaker in #9159
- FreeBSD workflow: disable stats report for sccache action by @lcheylus in #9156
- Fix test job in FreeBSD workflow by @lcheylus in #9155
- GNUmakefile: Better comment for cross build by @oech3 in #9186
- GNUmakefile: fix LOCALES=n by @oech3 in #9034
- Fix tests on OpenBSD for unix feature by @lcheylus in #9200
Code Quality & Cleanup
- fix: make visible alias by @Its-Just-Nans in #9041
- fix: show ignored args by @Its-Just-Nans in #9040
- rustdoc: fix broken intra doc links by @cakebaker in #9097
- clippy: re-enable unnecessary_semicolon lint by @cakebaker in #9143
- Remove test_keys2 binary by @cakebaker in #9183
- Typo by @sylvestre in #9197
Performance & Benchmarking
- bench: remove 'sort_random_strings' by @sylvestre in #9030
- bench: tsort_input_parsing_heavy reduce the input side by @sylvestre in #9067
- Fix base64 benchmarks by @akretz in #9082
- Revert "Fix base64 benchmarks" by @sylvestre in #9139
- Disable variance-heavy benchmark tests by @sylvestre in #9201
Version Management
- prepare version 0.4.0 by @sylvestre in #9205
Dependency Updates
- be prescriptive on the codspeed-divan-compat version by @sylvestre in #9007
- Bump linux-raw-sys from 0.11 to 0.12 by @cakebaker in #9019
- chore(deps): update rust crate bstr to v1.12.1 by @renovate[bot] in #9038
- chore(deps): update rust crate indicatif to v0.18.2 by @renovate[bot] in #9053
- chore(deps): update rust crate hex-literal to v1.1.0 by @renovate[bot] in #9077
- chore(deps): update rust crate clap to v4.5.51 by @renovate[bot] in #9079
- chore(deps): update rust crate clap_complete to v4.5.60 by @renovate[bot] in #9087
- chore(deps): update rust crate crc-fast to v1.6.0 by @renovate[bot] in #9095
- chore(deps): update vmactions/freebsd-vm action to v1.2.5 by @renovate[bot] in #9121
- chore(deps): update rust crate ctor to v0.6.1 by @renovate[bot] in #9130
- chore(deps): update rust crate quote to v1.0.42 by @renovate[bot] in #9165
- chore(deps): update reactivecircus/android-emulator-runner action to v2.35.0 by @renovate[bot] in #9169
- chore(deps): update rust crate jiff to v0.2.16 by @renovate[bot] in #9175
- chore(deps): update rust crate divan to v4.1.0 by @renovate[bot] in #9179
- chore(deps): update rust crate crc-fast to v1.7.0 by @renovate[bot] in #9180
- chore(deps): update vmactions/freebsd-vm action to v1.2.6 by @renovate[bot] in #9192
- chore(deps): update rust crate parse_datetime to v0.13.2 by @renovate[bot] in #9207
New Contributors
- @akretz made their first contribution in #9058
- @andreacorbellini made their first contribution in #9085
- @ya7on made their first contribution in #9151
- @matttbe made their first contribution in #9160
Full Changelog: 0.3.0...0.4.0