0.2.2

Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 Release:

This is a patch release focused on critical infrastructure fixes to ensure reliable distribution and deployment across different platforms. We also improved the performance of base64 to be faster than the GNU implementation (1.56 times faster).

What's Changed

base64

• base64: improve perfs by using the base64-simd crate by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8578

cp

• cp: fix copying current directory (.) to existing directory by @Vesal-J in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8565

nl

• nl: allow non-UTF8 section delimiter by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8575

stty

• Avoid panic in stty by @julian-klode in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8559

uucore

• uucore/build.rs: rename function by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8584

Distribution & Build

• manage the locales when the program is coming from crates.io by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8571
• link musl libc statically by @Ecordonnier in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8585
• Prepare version 0.2.2 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8588

Documentation

• release notes: store a copy in-tree too by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8564

Dependencies

• chore(deps): update rust crate winapi-util to v0.1.11 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8570
• fix(deps): update rust crate console to v0.16.1 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8577
• chore(deps): update rust crate chrono to v0.4.42 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8576
• chore(deps): update rust crate linux-raw-sys to 0.11 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8580

New Contributors

• @Vesal-J made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8565

Full Changelog: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/compare/0.2.0...0.2.2