Release 060122
* The tools have been ported to Mac OS X 10.4.3 (patches by Stefan Tramm).
* The tools have been ported to DragonFlyBSD 1.3.7-DEVELOPMENT.

Release 051118
* rm: The output of the question before descending to a directory with
  the "-i" option has been fixed.
* /usr/ucb/ps: The "-a" option has been fixed; it incorrectly printed a
  list of all processes since release 050411.
* getconf: /usr/ucb is now put at the end of the Heirloom directory list
  for the PATH variable.
* The "-man" macro no longer produces cut marks when used with troff.
* tr: When evaluating '[:class:]' expressions, the last position of the
  coded character set was not included; this has been fixed.
* ps: The "-R" option (resource usage format), which had been present
  for some time, has been documented.
* RPM package builds now require the new "Heirloom Development Tools"
  package from <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/devtools.html> to be
  installed.

Release 050815
* The "getconf" utility has been added (derived from OpenSolaris code).
* The "mesg" and "pathchk" utilities have been added.
* tr: A new implementation that is based on 6th and 7th edition code is
  now used. It stores the translation tables in arrays of variable size.
  This results in better performance, under some circumstances at the
  expense of higher memory consumption.
* printf: Handle unsigned values larger than INT_MAX correctly with "%u",
  "%o", "%x", and "%X".
* printf: Handle SVID3 "position" fields in format specifications, such
  as "%7$s", that specify which argument is used next.
* pg: If a line does not fit on the screen, do not print a newline to
  force wraparound unless it is really necessary. This allows to select
  words across the wrap for copy-and-paste in an xterm.
* pg: Discard the ESC[48m sequence on a terminal that supports colors.
* ed: Do not print "expecting `w'" with the "q" command after a zero-byte
  file has been written.
* man: The tmac.an macros no longer use "@" as an escape character; its
  previous use lead to weird output with Unix nroff when an "@" appeared
  in titles or hanging labels.
* man: The "TCAT" post processor is now invoked separately for each manual
  entry. Previously, when the -t option was given with multiple entries and
  TCAT=dpost, only the first entry was actually printed.
* Some issues with building on AIX have been fixed.

Release 050713
* The 'echo' and 'test' commands have been added as standalone versions of
  those of the Heirloom Bourne shell.
* The 'false', 'kill', 'printf', 'pwd', and 'true' commands have been added.
* ed: Copying a larger number of lines with the 't' command could cause a
  segmentation fault because some pointers were not updated after calling
  realloc().
* ed: Do not warn about an 'input error' anymore when reading a file that
  lacks the terminating newline.
* ed: Disallow the 'u' command if no change has been made yet after a file
  specified on the command line has been read.
* mail: The Content-Length header field is not used anymore; it is ignored
  when a folder is read, and is omitted when a message is written.
* mail: The LC_CTYPE locale now determines the set of printable characters.
* mail: MIME header fields are no longer generated; the mail command is far
  away from conforming to MIME and should not fake such information.

Release 050628
* The Bourne shell (derived from OpenSolaris code) has been added to the
  Heirloom project as a separate package. It is recommended to install it
  before the new version of the tools, and to adapt 'build/mk.config' such
  that it is used.
* New versions of the 'mail' and 'spell' utilities have been introduced;
  they have been derived from OpenSolaris code.
* The 'bdiff, 'bfs', 'dircmp', 'fmtmsg', 'getopt', and 'mvdir' utilities
  are now available (derived from OpenSolaris code).
* Both Unix lex and flex can now be used for building the tools.
* xargs: The '-l' and '-L' options override previous occurrences of the
  '-i' or '-I' option.
* awk (POSIX version): A command line argument that contains a '=' character
  but starts with a digit is no longer treated as a variable assignment.

Release 050612
* Fixed a double free() call that could occur in multibyte locales with
  all programs using traditional (simple) regular expressions.
* man: Handle .so requests that do not contain a path to the target file.
* tar: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference that occured if the 'b' option was
  given without a corresponding argument.
* tar: Immediately issue an error if calls to read() for an input archive
  return fewer bytes than the first one and the archive has not yet been
  processed completely. This condition was previously not detected in the
  rare case where the previous contents of the input buffer accidentally
  formed a valid continuation of the archive.
* shl: The external 'ps' command is now used for the 'layers -l' command.
* cp: An '-a' option was added that preserves hard links and all attributes
  during a recursive copy.
* tail: 'tail -f -n 0 file' now skips to the end of existing data before
  waiting for changes, as demanded by POSIX interpretation XCU ERN 62.
  'tail -0f file' continues the historical behavior of printing existing
  data first. (Issue reported by Pierre Gentile.)

Release 050411
* diff: The -p option (print name of surrounding C function) has been added.
* diff: The -X option (ignore patterns from file) has been added.
* diff: The combination of the -h and -r options works again.
* ps: Some values (e.g. LTIME) were determined incorrectly with the -L option
  on Linux systems.
* /usr/ucb/ps: Specifying -agx now has the same effect as specifying -ax.
* Operate correctly if stat(2) returns a zero st_blksize field. This is the
  case for the write side of pipes on NetBSD 2.0 and resulted in no output
  when using tar to write to them.
* sed: Handle a byte with the same value as the ASCII backslash at the second
  or a following position of a multibyte sequence correctly with the 'a', 'c',
  and 'i' commands.
* ls: If the target file name contained in a symbolic link is empty, print
  nothing (instead of "?") with the -l option etc.
* df: Specifying the name of a mounted device as argument works again.
* ln: When the existing file is a symbolic link, its target file is now hard
  linked with the SVID4 and POSIX versions.
* cpio: Print information about hard links with the -iv options.
* cpio: If link() fails, no separate copy of an archive entry is created.
* It is now possible to use hard links between installed files. The symbolic
  links which are used by default are shorter now.

Release 050309
* find: The -anewer and -cnewer primaries were introduced.
* ps: The /usr/ucb version now uses eight columns for the USER field as the
  historic versions do (Bugreport by Matthew Fischer).
* od: When the -C option was used with an empty input file, a division by
  zero caused a core dump (Patch by Matthew Fischer).
* touch: For the SVID versions, the first non-option argument is treated
  as a time specification if it starts with a digit, regardless of the
  following characters.
* join: If a join field does not exist, substitute the empty string for it.
* ed: With the SVID4 and POSIX versions, matches of zero length in substitute
  commands do no longer lead to endless loops.
* mkdir, mkfifo: When the -m option is given with a symbolic mode that has
  no 'who' part, the umask is now respected with the POSIX versions.
* chmod: When the -m option is given with a symbolic mode that has no 'who'
  part, the umask is now respected with the POSIX versions even if the
  previous file mode contained bits set within the umask.
* fmt: Trailing blanks were left on lines with multibyte characters (Patch
  by Matthew Fischer).
* The value 255 is now accepted in interval expressions in traditional
  (simple) regular expressions.
* find: The expression '-type D' matches Solaris door files.
* copy, cp, cpio, file, find, ls: Handle HP-UX network special files.
* cp: If both the -i and the -r or -R option are given, the traditional
  versions prompt for confirmation before copying to an existing directory.
* cp: A SVID4 version was introduced which behaves like the SVID3 version
  in the above respect but does not disable -i if standard input is not a
  terminal.
* cpio, pax, tar: Any filename that forms a valid UTF-8 string is now
  accepted as input when creating a pax format archive.
* cpio: Specifying -i, -o, or -p twice is no longer considered an error.
* shl: When the LNEXT terminal special character is given twice, it is now
  passed to the terminal buffer properly.
* cpio: Accept smaller zip64 extra headers which are created by some other
  zip archivers.
* cp: The default i/o buffer size with the -D option is now 1 MB.

Release 050206
* POSIX.1-2001 was added as another personality. Binaries are installed in
  /usr/5bin/posix2001 by default. mk.config files have to be augmented with
  the SU3BIN macro if they are to be reused.
  The POSIX.1-2001 personality still lacks some features for the 'file' and
  'pax' commands.
* find, ls: POSIX.1-2001 versions have been introduced.
* chown, chgrp: The -H, -L, and -P options from POSIX.1-2001 have been added.
  If changing the owner or group of a directory fails, chown and chgrp now
  continue to process the hierarchy below it with the -R option.
* cp: The -H, -L, and -P options from POSIX.1-2001 have been added.
* du, find: The -H and -L options from POSIX.1-2001 have been added.
* ls: The -H option from POSIX.1-2001 has been added.
* od: A leading '+' is not required to introduce an offset argument for the
  POSIX.1-2001 version. The SVID personalities also do no longer require it.
* pax: The -H option from POSIX.1-2001 has been added; pax does not follow
  symbolic links on the command line anymore unless this option is present.
* pax: The POSIX.1-2001 version terminates immediately when it detects a
  symbolic link loop with the -L option.
* tr: The -C option from POSIX.1-2001 has been added.
* dd: With 'conv=unblock', the last block was not converted.
* grep: The content of a file that consisted only of a single byte other than
  a newline was never matched.
* csplit, ed, expr, grep, nl, pax, pg, sed: The POSIX versions no longer
  accept reverted ranges like '[b-a]' in regular expressions.
* touch: If one of -a or -m but no time specification was given, both
  access and modification time were set to the current time.
* sed: The length of labels is limited to 8 characters instead of 7 bytes now.
* cut: If the -s option was specified but the first field was included in the
  list to the -f option, lines without the delimiter character were printed.
* cut: The -b, -c, and -f options did not accept the tabulator character as
  a field specification separator.
* paste: If standard input was used as input multiple times, a delimiter
  was printed after the last line of regular output.
* paste: If an inaccessible file is given with the -s option, the utility no
  longer exits but continues with the next file.
* od: When reading from standard input with the -N option, the file pointer
  is now left after the last byte read.
* xargs: The combination of the -n and -x options did not work properly.
* xargs: Exit codes were aligned with POSIX.
* ed: If no new text is given for a 'c' command, the current line is now
  positioned for the POSIX versions as demanded by the standard.
* ed: Can write empty files now.
* ed: An unterminated 's' command inside a 'g' command is now handled
  properly.
* ed: The 'G' command accepts the 'l' and 'n suffices now.
* ed: When a hangup signal is received, ed exits with failure status now.
* ed: The address '0' is now accepted as '1' for the 'c' and 'i' commands
  for the POSIX.1-2001 version.
* ed: A 'POSIX_SHELL' makefile macro has been introduced. Existing mk.config
  files have to be augmented if they are to be re-used.
* sed: If the input is seekable and the 'q' command is used, the file
  pointer is now left after the last line processed.
* ln: The -f option is not ignored with the -s option for the POSIX version.
* join: The list for the -o option must not be empty.
* sort: With the -d option, digits were ignored erroneously.
* sort: With '-k x,y', the second number refers to the last character of the
  corresponding sort field.
* uniq: The argument to the -f and -s options is required, and a '--' is
  accepted to end the option list.
* tail: Accept '+c' without a count; accept '--' to end the option list.
* expr: If a parenthesis is followed by another character, the argument is
  treated as a string now.
* expr: With the POSIX versions, single string arguments that are valid
  decimal numbers are converted to their canonical form (e.g. -0001 to -1).
* csplit: If the last operand was of the form '%re%', lines following its
  match were not written to an output file.
* pr: Various output formatting bugs have been fixed.
* bc, dc: Long lines are now properly broken with scale=10.
* bc: Error messages are now printed to standard error (instead of standard
  output).
* bc: Uninitialized array values are now printed as '0' (instead of a
  string of multipe nulls with machine-dependent length).
* bc: Passing arrays to functions works properly now.
* bc, dc: Output for obase>16 does not end with trailing spaces anymore.
* bc: The '-=' operator did not work.
* nawk: CONVFMT was used in the SVID personality but not in the POSIX
  personality, contrary to the documentation.
* nawk: printf("%u") did not work if the argument was larger that INT_MAX.
* nawk: RLENGTH was not set correctly for matches of zero length.
* nawk: The POSIX.1-2001 version accepts regular expressions as parts of
  arithmetic expressions, e.g. "x = /p/ * 2".
* file: The POSIX version does not exit with an error status if a file could
  not be opened.
* cpio, pax: The -plL (or -rwlL for pax) option combination now works; it
  creates links to the targets of all symbolic links in the source hierarchy.
* pax: The -pa and -pme option combinations now work.
* pax: The -po option works for users other than root (but only affects the
  group ownerships then).
* pax: Without -ro or -re, set[ug]id bits are not preserved.
* pax: A '&' in the replacement string for the '-s' option did not work.
* pax: The '-b' option now accepts multiplication suffixes.
* pax: The '-u' option is now respected in read mode too.
* pax: The '-n' option in read mode does not mark a pattern as used if it
  matched an archive entry but that entry was not selected due to '-u'.
* pax: If link() fails, no separate copy of an archive entry is created.
* pax: When a socket is encountered, print an error message and exit with
  failure for the POSIX.1-2001 version.
* pax: If invoked by a user other than the super-user and -po or -pe are
  given, the POSIX.1-2001 version produces an error for any extracted file
  not owned by the invoking user.
* find: Symbolic modes for -perm that include the sgid bit now work properly.
* cp: The -f option does not disable the -i option in the POSIX personality
  and vice-versa.
* df: Percentage values are now rounded to the next integer as demanded by
  POSIX.
* man: With the -k option, the exit status is now 0 if any matches have been
  found.
* stty: If ispeed and ospeed are different, both are printed separately.
* stty: If the system does not support split input/output speed, the 'ispeed'
  and 'ospeed' operands have no effect if both are given.
* tabs: The -T option had no effect. Its argument is now required.
* wc: Use a column-aligned output format for the POSIX version too since the
  standard does not actually disallow it.
* csplit, ed, grep, nl, pax, pg, sed: The POSIX.1-2001 versions try to avoid
  null matches with BRE subexpressions.

Release 050123
* tr: The highest acceptable wide character for complementing strings is now
  dynamically reset from 0x10FFFF to 0xFFFF if memory is sparse. The size of
  the corresponding hash table has been raised to reduce computing time.
* grep: With the -r option, directory loops caused by symbolic links are now
  detected and avoided. The -R option does no longer follow symbolic links
  that point to directories.
* pg: If the end of file was located immediately after the line displayed
  before the prompt, the same screen was displayed twice, once with the
  regular prompt and then with '(EOF):'. The end-of-file condition is now
  detected earlier, and the prompt is changed earlier accordingly.
* od: Fixed a one-byte heap overflow in the output buffering mechanism.
* more: If a 'n' command was given without a previous '/', a segmentation
  fault occured. The error condition is now properly recognized (Bugreport
  by Matthew Fischer).
* more: Fixed underlining of multibyte characters (Bugreport by Matthew
  Fischer).
* ps: -o etime sometimes printed output like '00:00:4294967295' with
  recently started processes (Bugreport by Matthew Fischer).
* pg: The fix for the '(EOF):' prompt in the last release caused the '.'
  command to advance a line if input came from a pipe but the current
  screen was the last one that had already been buffered.
* more: Do not rely on the state of continued calls to mbrtowc() but reset
  its state each time and call it with the complete sequence again to work
  around problems with glibc in EUC-JP locales (Patch by Matthew Fischer).
* pg: Fixed the handling of backspaces following multicolumn characters.
* pg: Allow the rmacs/ae escape sequence (end alternate character set) to
  be sent to the terminal.

Release 050106
* grep: A '-z' option is now available; it decompresses compressed files and
  looks for the pattern in the plain text.
* file: Recognizes UTF-8 encoded text now.
* basename, csplit, ed, grep, nl, pg, sed: The multibyte locale code of the
  traditional regular expression matching functions lead to segmentation
  faults and missing matches with some input sequences because of an
  uninitialized variable.
* rm: The traditional and POSIX versions have been fixed with regard to the
  '-f' and '-i' options; if both were given, the traditional version behaved
  as documented for the POSIX one and vice-versa.
* pg: Compute the width of non-printable characters that correspond to a
  multibyte sequence correctly. In UTF-8 locales, non-printable characters
  are now substituted by Unicode control pictures or the Unicode replacement
  character.
* pg: Always print the '(EOF):' prompt on a new line, even if the input file
  does not end with a newline character.
* ps: If a user or group name is printed with property for the -o option and
  the name does not fit into the column width, the numeric id is now written
  instead.
* rm: For the traditional command versions, 'rm -- -' now tries to remove a
  file named '-'.
* grep (traditional), nawk: Handle character case conversions correctly if
  the length of the converted multibyte sequence is smaller than the original
  one.
* od: Accept '-j 0' and do not skip anything then; if both '-j' and '-N' are
  given, format the given number of bytes as specified by POSIX and do not
  substract the skip count from it (Bugreport by Andreas Hofmeister).
* cmp: If the -w flag was given and the difference was located at the last
  byte of an eight-byte group, the immediately following group was printed.

Release 041214
* Traditional and POSIX options as well as extensions are now marked as such
  in the manual pages.
* The functionality that was previously provided by specifying the -DADDONS
  compile flag has been integrated into the base version and documented in
  the manual pages, and other extensions have been added. This includes:
  'cat -B size', 'cmp -w', 'cp -b size -d -D -s', 'date -b', 'dd conv=idirect
  conv=odirect', 'df -h', 'du -h', the 'b', 'help', 'N', 'o', and 'z' commands
  for 'ed', 'grep -r -R -w', 'ls -h -S -U -X', 'od -C', 'tar zjZ'. Note that
  these extensions are only intended as a convenience add-on for interactive
  use; their semantics might change without prior notice in future releases,
  and their use in scripts is strongly discouraged.
* split: Fixed a null pointer dereference that occured if the argument to
  the -a, -b, or -l option was missing.
* nice: Fixed a null pointer dereference that occured if the argument to
  the -n option was missing.
* pr: Fixed a null pointer dereference that occured if the argument to
  the -o, -l, or -w option was missing.
* dc: Do not call malloc(0). Doing this made some operations fail with diet
  libc.
* ls (BSD version): Print block sizes as units of 1024 kilobytes.
* pg: Non-printable characters in multibyte locales no longer lead to wrong
  results when the width of a line on the screen is computed.
* head: Handle a single '-' on the command line like '-0'.
* grep, oawk, pg: Work around a bug in HP-UX which can cause MB_CUR_MAX to
  be influenced by setting the LC_COLLATE locale after LC_CTYPE.
* ps: Some minor changes were made for NetBSD 2.0.
* stty: If the LC_CTYPE locale uses the UTF-8 encoding, 'ituf8' is now set
  with 'sane'.

Release 041204
* pgrep, pkill: The -o option (select oldest process only) was added.
* tar: lseek() is now used again to skip faster over irrelevant portions
  of archives that are regular files. This did not work correctly since
  release 040402.
* dc, more: Fixed some issues concerning machines where 'char' is an
  unsigned type.
* shl: Due to a Makefile script error, the program was not installed in the
  previous release when bash was used as shell by make.
* tr: The highest acceptable character for complementing strings has
  been raised to 0x10FFFF to cover all of Unicode.
* wc: Performance tuning made wc run approximately ten times faster than
  previous versions on large ASCII files in multibyte locales.
* dd, diff, egrep, grep, sort, tr: Minor performance enhancements were made
  for ignoring/converting case for ASCII characters in multibyte locales.
* grep: A segmentation fault that could occur if it was run with the -i
  option in a multibyte locale has been fixed.
* cpio, tar: Include <linux/fs.h> only with glibc builds because the kernel
  include file normally used with other C libraries is not always suitable
  for inclusion in user space. The optimum i/o size for block devices will
  then not be detected automatically. (Reported by Patrick McHardy.)

Release 041107
* Ported to OpenBSD (except for priocntl, psrinfo, ptime, and shl).
* Building with diet libc works again.
* diff: Named pipes are only considered to be identical if both their
  st_dev and st_ino values are equal. Regular files for which this is
  the case are now also considered identical without comparing their
  contents.
* cal: A missing terminating NUL has been added. It could lead to garbage
  output following the weekday characters row.
* pg: A flag was set within the wrong struct termios member. This lead to
  incorrect input processing on BSD systems, with the effect that characters
  typed at the prompt did not appear correctly on the terminal.

Release 041014
* All tools can now be built with -D_GNU_SOURCE on both glibc and uClibc.
* It is now possible to use a cross-compiler for building. Some programs
  have to be run on the development machine. Set the new 'HOSTCC' variable
  appropriately then.
* spell: The hash databases are now always kept in little-endian order,
  even if running on a big-endian machine. Unless site-specific tables
  are used, no further action is needed after a 'make install'. Altered
  tables have to be created again using the new version of the 'spellin'
  program.
* cpio, pax: If the C compiler pads structures consisting only of 'char'
  types, these programs read and wrote incorrect headers for a number of
  archive formats. (So far, this problem has only been observed with GCC
  on ARM).
* date: For setting the date, the year conversion for the 'mmddhhmmccyy'
  was fixed.
* pg: If compiled against termcap and the number of lines obtained from
  the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl() is zero, use the value from the termcap library.
* find: The '-fstype' and '-local' criteria were fixed to work on HP-UX.

Release 040928
* It is now possible to build using uClibc <http://www.uclibc.org/> on
  Linux.
* ps: Made the output of -lP include F and ADDR columns; documented that
  the output of '-o stime' may contain whitespace; fixed it to recognize
  the new 'dead (X)' internal state on Linux; fixed a possible integer
  overflow in HZ/time conversion; the FIFO scheduling class is now 'FF',
  the batch class is 'B', and the isochronous class is 'ISO'; do not limit
  the CPU percentage field to 99; made the '-t' option print processes
  without controlling terminal with '-t ?' or '-t -'. (Thanks to
  Albert Cahalan for reviewing the code and noticing these issues.)
* priocntl: The FIFO scheduling class is now 'FF', the batch class is 'B',
  and the isochronous class is 'ISO', as for ps. The old names are still
  accepted with '-i class'.
* su: If the encrypted password string is empty, no password prompt appears
  and the command succeeds immediately.

Release 040907
* touch: Unless the -a or -m flag was present, any time specifications
  were completely ignored since release 040620.
* ls, nawk, oawk: When invoking snprintf() to determine the length of
  a formatted string, do not use a NULL pointer and a size argument of
  zero but a dummy array and a size argument of two instead. This works
  around a problem on some systems which are not conforming to ISO C99
  in this respect. Affects the columnar output for 'ls -i' and 'ls -s';
  printf results that are longer than 512 bytes with nawk, and printf
  results that are 128 bytes longer than the size of the current input
  record with oawk would have failed. These problem are fixed now for
  (at least) Solaris 8, Open UNIX 8, and AIX 5.1; AIX even tried to
  reference the NULL pointer and dumped core. HP-UX B.11.11 does not
  work correctly even with the fix. Linux/glibc, Linux/dietlibc,
  FreeBSD, and NetBSD are not affected by this issue.

Release 040727
* pr: The last release made it run into an endless loop, this has been
  fixed. It also does not print a trailing newline anymore if the '-t'
  option is given.
* wc: The non-POSIX version has been optimized. Since the result is now
  equally fast with gcc and Intel C on i386, there is no point in using
  Intel C for compilation anymore and the ICC makefile definitions have
  been removed.
* ps: On NetBSD, one process too few was displayed.

Release 040718
* Ported to AIX (except for priocntl, psrinfo, ptime, and shl).
* Ported to NetBSD (except for priocntl, psrinfo, ptime, and shl).
* The tools now also compile and run on FreeBSD 4.9.
* Some fixes for HP-UX on PA-RISC and with earlier 11.X versions were made.
  The tools now compile in 32-bit and 64-bit mode.
* cat: When input and output are pipes of FIFOs, do not require that they
  are different files. This makes 'echo foo | cat - | cat' work on BSD
  systems.
* du: Does not exit immediately anymore when it encounters a file system
  traversal error but continues with other files. Is able to descend to
  hierarchies of arbitrary depth now even when the limit of open file
  descriptors is exceeded.
* file: HP-UX and AIX executable types were added to the magic file.
* stty: Support the '[-]iutf8' input mode on Linux.
* w, uptime: Display the load average on HP-UX too. Fixed uptime count on
  HP-UX.

Release 040712
* Ported to HP-UX (except for priocntl, psrinfo, ptime, and shl).
* diff: The new -B option causes changes that consist only of empty lines
  to be ignored (as in GNU diff).
* diff: Options -1 and -2 were added. They work like -N but output the text
  of new files in the first (second) of both directories only.
* ps: Fixed a null pointer dereference that occured when encountering a
  zombie process on Solaris.
* ps: When invoked with -L on Linux, print the process ID instead of the
  thread ID in the PID column.

Release 040701
* cpio, pax: If the -a (-t) option is specified but no data was read from
  a file, do not try to reset its access time.
* cpio: Respect the -a option (reset access times) in -p (copy-pass) mode.
* pax: Respect the -t option (reset access times) in -rw (copy) mode.
* priocntl, ps: The batch scheduling class and the isochronous scheduling
  class available on Linux with Con Kolivas' patch set are now supported.

Release 040620
* ps: -L flag (print thread information) added for Linux, Solaris, and
  Open UNIX.
* tar: Handle file names longer than 100 characters correctly with the 'X'
  and 'u' options.
* cpio, pax: Since the LZW patent is now expired in Europe too, the macro
  LZW_CLEAN has been removed and support for the 'unshrink' zip format
  decompressor is always enabled.
* shl: Do not let a zombie process and a stale utmp entry remain when the
  single existing layer is terminated using the 'delete' command.
* touch: Use utime(file, NULL) if neither -a nor -m are given. This causes
  the current time to be used regardless of the running time of the command
  instance.
* tar: When creating an intermediate directory fails, continue operation
  unless -e is specified.
* tar: Fixed a bug which inhibited extraction of archives with absolute
  path names.

Release 040603
* pax: Complain if the target directory argument to -rw is missing.
* lc: Made the -1 option work.
* tar: Transparently read archives which were compressed two or more times.
* tar: Automatically enable the B flag if reading from pipes or sockets.
* ed, sed (SVR4.2MP and POSIX versions only); pax: If the RE of a repeated
  substitution command matches the empty string, such as in 's/ *//g', do
  not get in an endless loop but examine the line character-wise.
* find, rm: Use O_DIRECTORY and, if applicable, O_NOFOLLOW when opening
  directories.

Release 040517
* ed: When creating the temporary output file for a regular file fails,
  do not refuse to write but truncate the original file if possible;
  otherwise, really leave the original file intact until the new version
  has been written entirely. Do not use temporary a temporary output
  file if the original file has more than one link, or is a symbolic link.
* diff: Optimized not to start a new process for each differing file when
  operating recursively.
* nawk: Do not recognize hexadecimal numbers, NaN, and infinity strings
  as numeric values even if strtod() of the underlying system does.
* nawk: Pre-POSIX version introduced. Prominent differences are the use
  of full (instead of extended) regular expressions, the lack of CONVFMT
  and of var=value file arguments.
* deroff: New /usr/5bin version derived from Plan 9. The BSD-derived
  version continues to be available in /usr/ucb.
* ed: If used interactively, errors do not affect the exit status.
* cpio, pax: When writing GNU tar format archives, append a '/' character
  to the name of each directory archive member.

Release 040502
* It is now possible to use dietlibc. It will result in losing all
  multibyte character functionality, though. Some commands (e. g.
  units, od -f) do not work correctly because dietlibc currently
  lacks support for the %e printf specifier.
* dd: Close the output file descriptor on exit to catch write errors
  that might happen at this time.
* egrep, fgrep, grep, pg: When an input line is too long to fit in
  memory, do not terminate but virtually split the line.
* more: When running out of memory, restore previous tty state.
* oawk: Fixed a pointer truncation problem that could occur on 64-bit
  platforms with LP64 model, in particular the Itanium (thanks to HP
  and the University of Freiburg for the test machine).
* Use __attribute__ ((used)) with gcc 3.4 to prevent version strings
  for what(1) to disappear with unit-at-a-time optimization.

Release 040420
* sed: Do not enter an endless loop if a '$' address is specified and
  the input is not terminated with a newline character.
* Supporting files changed for the new home page at
  <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net>.
* cpio, pax: When -k is specified and -H is used to select a tar format
  other than the 'pax' format, ignore the size of linked entries (i. e.
  do not expect that 'linkdata' was in effect when the archive was
  created).

Release 040416
* Made it compile with 'bison -y' as yacc implementation.
* cpio, pax: Implemented the 'linkdata' and 'times' option for the pax
  archive format.
* Portability fixes to make it compile on Playstation Linux.
* cpio, pax, tar: When appending to a pax format archive that contains a
  global header (not currently created by Heirloom tools), always override
  the respective fields in new extended headers.
* cpio, pax, tar: When writing to a Sun extended tar format archive, do not
  create SUN.devmajor or SUN.devminor records for other files than devices.

Release 040404_beta
* Ported to FreeBSD (except for psrinfo, ptime, and shl).
* find: Parse the '-local' primary correctly.

Release 040402
* cpio, pax, tar: Accept GNU long name 'K' and 'L' extended headers
  regardless of archive magic. This works around a bug in GNU tar which
  creates these headers even when advised to create old or ustar format
  archives.
* tar: Always accept checksums created using unsigned and signed chars
  regardless of the archive format.
* tar: When writing the second and following volumes to a block device,
  use direct i/o on Linux as for the first volume.
* cpio, pax: If -k (or -K) is given and a header format is explicitly
  specified with -H (or -x), do not auto-detect extended formats based
  on the specified format.
* cpio, pax, tar: Preliminary support for the POSIX.1-2001 pax format. No
  file names with non-ASCII characters are currently archived because the
  issue of UTF-8 conversion still has to be resolved by the Austin Group.
  Support for Sun's extended tar format (Solaris 7 and above) is also
  included.
* cpio, pax: If -k (or -K, respectively) is specified with a tar archive,
  skip 512 bytes before probing for the next valid header block and require
  a block of 512 zeroes at the end of the archive.

Release 040318
* cpio, pax: A bug was fixed that caused SGI extensions to be present in
  binary archives and SCO extensions in SVR4 archives by default (if an
  archived file exceeded 2 GB or used large device numbers; that is,
  rarely). Large device numbers on systems other than Linux are properly
  stored with the SGI format now.
* cpio, pax: When the -A (or -a for pax) option was used with a zip archive
  that contained zip data descriptors (as written by cpio and pax for files
  larger than 196 kbytes), the zip central directory structure was not
  correctly updated. This caused no problems with cpio and pax as they
  ignore this structure, but could result in CRC errors being reported
  by other zip archivers.
* cpio, pax: Do not allow path names to exceed 65535 bytes even with those
  formats that would support longer names by design. Such path names are
  rejected by open() on any known Unix system; they are are a certain sign
  for a corrupt archive and may cause a memory allocation failure unless
  such precautions are taken.
* cpio, pax: Support for the Cray UNICOS 5 cpio format added.
* tar: Tuned the structures used when storing files with multiple hard links.
  This resolves the extremely slow processing that happened when many such
  files were archived.
* ed: When writing a regular file, write the content to a temporary file
  first, then rename it to the target file.

Release 040314
* cpio, pax: Fixed a null pointer dereference which occured when reading
  invalid SVR4 format cpio archives that contain the file data for a hard
  link multiple times. When extracting such archives, no hard links are
  created.
* pax: Standard output is always line-buffered in list mode.
* cpio, pax, tar: Automatically decompress compressed input (gzip, bzip2,
  etc.) also when reading from pipes, tapes or other nonseekable input.
* cpio, pax: When writing archives in formats other than zip, report
  a read error only once per archived file.
* cpio, pax: Handle input file read errors correctly when writing a zip
  archive entry in deflate format.
* pr: Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the first character on a page of
  single-column output to be garbled.
* cpio, pax: For -Hcrc and various tar formats, checksums are created using
  signed chars by some implementations and using unsigned chars by others.
  cpio and pax now accept both without complaint or the need to use the -k
  option (or -K for pax).
* cpio, pax: Support for SunOS 4 'bar' format added.
* cpio, pax: If -k (or -K for pax) is given and a checksum is not correct
  with the -Hcrc format, do not restore an existing original file.

Release 040306
* tar: If a 0...9 key is specified but no corresponding entry exists in
  /etc/default/tar, an error is reported instead of using /dev/null.
* tar: If a file matched a pattern but was not successfully extracted, it
  is handled as if it had not matched for the final statistics.
* pg: When a search command is interrupted, return to the position in the
  file on which the search was started.
* tar: If a directory name appears in a file for the 'X' key, files below
  that directory are also excluded. If 'v' is combined with 'X', excluded
  files are reported on standard error.
* tar: Don't report write errors a second time when closing the archive.
* tape: Report the density code in hexadecimal (with the status command).
* sed: Reallocation of substitution patterns sometimes left a dangling
  pointer on the heap. This usually resulted in garbage characters in
  the substituted string.

Release 040227
* find: If -depth was given, all attributes of struct stat (-perm, -type,
  -links, -user, -group, -size, -inum, -[amc]time, -newer, -fstype, -local,
  -nouser, -nogroup) were handled wrong for directories.
* cpio: Support for UnixWare 7.1 extended cpio format added.
* cpio, tar: Call close() for the archive when writing to detect write
  errors that occur at this point.
* cpio: Don't report the 'TRAILER!!!' end-of-archive marker with -ov.
* cpio: Restore the original file if linking an entry of a tar archive
  fails (Thanks to J"org Schilling).
* pax: New in this tool collection (in fact, mainly another interface for
  the cpio implementation).
* ed: Reset subexpression count for 's' command in SVID4/POSIX version so
  that e. g. '\3' will insert a literal '3' if a third subexpression does
  not occur in the current RE but did occur in a previous one.
* tcopy: Report read errors and continue operation without creating a new
  file on the target tape.

Release 040221
* find: If the argument to '-type' begins with '-' or '+', use its second
  character as file type specifier (i. e. '-f' does the same as 'f').
* cpio: GNU tar extended fields are now also supported for st_rdev.
* cpio: Added support for the Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX extended (-e) cpio
  format.
* tar: When writing old format archives, file descriptors were not properly
  closed. This caused tar to complain that it could not open further files.
* cpio: Can now handle DCL imploded zip archive entries (thanks to Mark
  Adler's implementation which is distributed with zlib).
* cpio: Use zip data descriptors when writing deflate compressed entries.
  This results in a performance enhancement.
* cpio: Handle zip data descriptor structure for zip64 archive entries.

Release 040209
* tar: The 'n' modifier causes reports in kilobytes instead of blocks and
  has no further effect (tapes are automatically recognized).
* dd: If a read error occurs and conv=noerror is specified, seek one input
  block forward to skip past the error (unless reading from tapes).
* tapecntl: New -v option.
* tape: New in this tool collection.
* dd: Do not allocate two buffers if only one is needed with bs= and
  no conversion specified.
* cpio: Can now append to archives on tape devices with -A (if supported
  by the hardware).
* tar: Can now update (-r, -u) blocked archives; can now update archives
  on tape devices (if supported by the hardware).

Release 040118
* cpio: Copy-in of zip64 entries fixed.
* cpio: Don't try to reset access times of symbolic links with -a.
* cpio: Handle zip data descriptors for directories on extraction.
* tapecntl: '-c' option added (control tape compression).
* cpio: Support for bzip2 compression inside zip archives was added.
* expand, newform, pg, ps, ul, unexpand: Handle zero-width multibyte
  characters correctly when counting columns.
* sdiff: Handle illegal multibyte sequences when counting columns.

Release 031229
* cpio: Files named 'TRAILER!!!' do not mark the end of tar or zip format
  archives.
* tcopy: New in this tool collection (ported from 4.3BSD).
* tar: Report write errors correctly even for very small archives (below
  one tape block).
* mt, tapecntl: New in this tool collection.
* diff: Use /proc/self to ensure that exactly the same binary is used
  for single file diffs when descending directory hierarchies with -r.
* ps: Display appropriate process flags on Solaris and Open UNIX.
* sort: Don't dump core if a record is too large with glibc (call write()
  instead of fprintf() if malloc() fails).
* more: The character '\177' does not imply that the file is not text
  (unless followed by 'ELF').
* tar: If the -n option is given or input is read from a regular file,
  use lseek() to skip over irrelevant portions of input (e. g. with -t).
* tar: Respect the n flag given in /etc/default/tar.
* ed: A '\.' line causes a single period '.' to be inserted with the a, c,
  and i commands in the SVID4 version (as already done for the SVID3 one).
* rmdir: The -p option was fixed to remove all directories of a relative
  path name operand, including the first one. Traditional versions were
  introduced that print a message if the operation was successful for a
  whole path; this is not done for the POSIX.2 version.
* bc: Terminate immediately if the first file given on the command line
  cannot be opened.
* spell: Handle filenames with embedded whitespace.
* ls: If both -f and -p are given, only -f is effective.

Release 031110
* tar: Fixed the -u function not to skip modified files below directories
  whose modification time was not changed.
* mknod: Support 32-bit dev_t on Linux.
* man: Set the TROFFMACS environment variable in the /etc/default/man
  definitions for nroff and troff so that the Heirloom man macros are
  used instead of the vendor's ones on Solaris and Open UNIX.
* ps: Always treat zombie processes as processes without controlling tty.
* tar: Revised temporary file handling does not leave stale files if the
  operation is interrupted before any new files are appended with -u, and
  does not try to remove files on exit that were not previously created.
* tar: Really use the block size specified in /etc/default/tar.
* cpio, tar: Use direct i/o with all block devices on writing. The rationale
  is the same as for floppy disks; buffered writes make it impossible to
  interrupt the write process on slow devices.
* random: New in this tool collection.
* pg: With the -f option, lines were still split when displaying search
  results. This is no longer done.

Release 031029
* man: Use nroff with the -Tlp option and pass its output to col -x to
  get proper display results with tbl output on Solaris. Since the default
  command for nroff is set in /etc/default/man and this file is not
  overwritten by make install if it exists, -Tlp should be added by
  hand when upgrading.
* man: Use ksh instead of bash if possible. This is done because ksh is
  typically twice as fast with man and does not print 'broken pipe' when
  piped output is aborted.
* man: Made section selection work with pdksh.
* ps: The default heading for '-o tty' is now 'TT' as in POSIX.2.
* ps: Read the process flags from the psinfo file on Solaris, making ps
  fully functional without special privilege on this platform.
* hostname, logname, printenv, users, whoami: New in this tool collection.
* pg: Fixed the command input handling not to reject valid characters after
  a 'b', 'm', or 't' was given at an inappropriate position.
* deroff: Handle ISO-8859-1 input characters; handle lines and input file
  names of arbitrary length and an arbitrary number of input files. This
  command is now in /usr/ucb since there might be another implementation
  in /usr/5bin some day. Until then, a symbolic link points to the current
  /usr/ucb version.
* more, page: New in this tool collection (traditional version only, derived
  from 4.3BSD).
* apropos, catman, deroff, expand, man, renice, ul, unexpand, uptime,
  w, whatis: Create compatibility symbolic links in /usr/ucb.
* ul: New in this tool collection (derived from 4.3BSD).
* pg: Pass through some formatting terminal escape sequences such as bold,
  underline, or colors.
* lc: Colorize file names even if standard output is not a terminal.
* ptime: Don't install it on systems other than Linux.
* tty: Recognize synchronous lines on Solaris and Open UNIX.

Release 031020
* Support for building pkgadd packages on Solaris and Open UNIX.
* w, whodo: Fixed display of columns; replace nonprintable characters in
  command lines with question marks.
* Fixed use of getdents() on Open UNIX (affects du, find, rm, and tar).
* Build fixes for glibc 2.2 systems.
* shl: Specify the group ownership in the rpm spec file (for utmp updates).
* dfspace: Do not print information for sysfs mounts on Linux.
* pgrep, pkill: Handle '0' argument value to -g and -s.
* Added 'chmod a+x /etc/default' to the rpm postinstall script. /etc/default
  is part of the shadow-utils package on RedHat Linux, with mode 750. The
  /etc/default/useradd file of this package is only readable by root anyway,
  so it seems safe to allow directory access for anybody (Thanks to Pierre
  Gentile).
* man: Handle Solaris SGML format pages (needs /usr/lib/sgml/sgml2roff)
  and Open UNIX HTML format pages (needs /usr/bin/html2ascii).
* file: Recognition of big-endian machines fixed (caused cpio files to
  be wrongly identified as byte-swapped).
* ps, pgrep, pkill, uptime, w, whodo: Handle Solaris and Open UNIX /proc.
* priocntl, psrinfo: Fall back to the native version in /usr/[s]bin and
  don't install our binaries and manpages on systems other than Linux.
* mkdir: Handle ENOSYS when trying to mkdir() an existing path name.
* cpio: Made the -A option work with raw devices.
* cpio, tar: When writing to a floppy block device on Linux, use O_DIRECT
  instead of fsync() to avoid data buffering.
* od: Don't print a '*' if the input is empty.
* bc: If a file cannot be opened, include its name in the error message.
* basename, cal, cat, chgrp, chown, df, dfspace, egrep, env, fgrep, grep,
  lc, ls, news, nl, nohup, od, paste, pg, psrinfo, ptime, rm, setpgrp,
  sleep, stty, time, touch, wc, what, yes: Handle argc == 0 (Thanks to
  Stephane Chazelas).
* ps: Documentation for cache file configuration is now provided in ps/NOTES
  and ps/ps.dfl. The second file is normally installed in /etc/default/ps,
  but it is not overwritten if it already exists; adjust it by hand if you
  want to use the configuration settings when upgrading an installed system.

Release 031013
* ps: If /tmp/ps_cache was hard linked to another file, the contents of
  that file were overwritten (Thanks to Stephane Chazelas).
* hd: Fixed printing of '\', '^', and '~' characters with the -t option.
* pgrep, pkill: Ignore leading space or colon in criterion lists.
* ps: Complain if a criterion string starts with a space or colon character
  (Thanks to Stephane Chazelas); complain but continue execution if both
  valid and invalid user or group criterions are given.

Release 031012
* ps: Do not follow symbolic links when creating /tmp/ps_cache (Thanks
  to Stephane Chazelas).
* tee: Open output files in the order given on the command line.
* dd: dup() standard input or standard output if no if/of arguments given.
* tail: Do not accept more than one sign; handle +<c>r as on historical
  systems (Thanks to Stephane Chazelas).
* head: Fixed 'head -0' to print the header for more than one file but no
  content; negative counts are not accepted anymore (Thanks to Stephane
  Chazelas).
* The path names in build/mk.config and in the uninstalled manual pages
  are now the same as those in heirloom.spec (/usr/5bin, /usr/5lib etc.).
  Note that you may have to change the paths in /etc/default/man by hand
  if you switch to the new default location since this file is not
  overwritten at installation.
* The effects of the SYSV3 environment variable are described in the
  manual pages for affected utilities.
* expr: Problems with the historic basename example in the manual page are
  marked (Thanks to Stephane Chazelas).
* cpio: Allow -M without -O or -I in SYSV3 mode.
* Deleted some stale license files in subdirectories.
