0.6.0
Rust Coreutils 0.6.0 Release:
We are happy to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.6.0 — a major milestone achieving 96% GNU compatibility with significant safety improvements, enhanced locale support, and extensive bug fixes!
Highlights:
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Major GNU Compatibility Leap
- 622 passing tests (+56 from 0.5.0), achieving 96.28% compatibility
- Reduced failures from 55 to just 16 (-39) and skipped tests from 23 to 7 (-16)
- Extensive test suite improvements across
sort,ls,date,cksum,tail, and many more
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Safety & Code Quality
- Removed unsafe code from
date,sort,locale.rs, and other utilities - Replaced raw
libccalls with safenixcrate equivalents throughout - Enhanced error handling to avoid panics on writes across many utilities
- Removed unsafe code from