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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> | 2014-12-01 14:12:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> | 2014-12-01 21:59:02 -0800 |
| commit | 38800587a95d1d74fb6dc9ce54722da5f0c88d0e (patch) | |
| tree | e822785de3f102f707d788765bf80569d9911bdd | |
| parent | 383efa5436d98f3eec6ad6f37b52013cee0a14b9 (diff) | |
| download | sed-38800587a95d1d74fb6dc9ce54722da5f0c88d0e.tar.gz | |
doc: NEWS: mention the gzip->xz release tarball switch
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention that we are now distributing
only .tar.xz archives; no more gzip-compressed tarballs.
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@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ GNU sed NEWS -*- outline -*- is what stopped working. [bug introduced some time after sed-3.02 and prior to the first sed-4* test release] +** Build-related + + "make dist" now builds .tar.xz files, rather than .tar.gz ones. + xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing + only .tar.xz files is enough. It has been fine for coreutils, grep, + diffutils and parted for a few years. + * Noteworthy changes in release 4.2.2 (2012-12-22) [stable] |