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e.g. Democracy Now! headlines with topic “#Gaza”. A parade of “Israel … Attacks … Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire”.

#ThisIsNoCeasefire

ALT: Screenshots from https://www.democracynow.org/topics/gaza , showing reports of Israeli attacks on Gaza on 29, 30, 31 Oct, 3, 6, 7 Nov. Only for example. @palestine@fedibird.com

The GNU project has announced the release of coreutils 9.9, a new stable version of the essential collection of basic file, shell, and text manipulation utilities that form the backbone of nearly every Linux and Unix-like system.

Among the most notable fixes, the cp command regains proper performance when handling transparently compressed files, a regression observed with OpenZFS and similar filesystems.

At the same time, the tail utility now correctly outputs the requested number of lines for non-small -n values, while unexpand no longer triggers heap buffer overflows when using the GNU-specific /NUM or +NUM formats with --tabs.

Other fixes address subtle behavioral issues in tools like numfmt, sort, and cksum, ensuring correct operation when working with various data encodings, locales, and compression setups.

The Rust Coreutils project, which aims to provide a full, modern Rust implementation of the GNU Core Utilities — the essential command-line tools found on every Linux and Unix-like operating system — has announced the release of version 0.4.

Notably, the project’s growing maturity has already led to real-world adoption in some Linux distros, such as Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” and AerynOS, both of which now utilize Rust Coreutils for select system utilities.

Version 0.4 brings this release a step closer to achieving full GNU Coreutils compatibility. According to devs, the latest test results show 544 passing tests, up from 532 in the previous 0.3 release — an increase that raises total compatibility to 85.8%, while failures dropped from 68 to 56.