doc: mention "printf %d ''" change

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Paul Eggert 2024-11-19 14:01:32 -08:00
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@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Previously it would have ignored the affinity mask on such systems.
[bug introduced with nproc in coreutils-8.1]
printf now diagnoses attempts to treat empty strings as numbers,
as per POSIX. For example, "printf '%d' ''" now issues a diagnostic
and fails instead of silently succeeding.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
'shuf' generates more-random output when the output is small.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]