GNU cpio 2.12 released

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

I am pleased to inform you that the new stable release of GNU cpio is
available for download.  See the end of this message for the list of
new features in this release.

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.12.tar.gz   (1.7MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.12.tar.bz2  (1.2MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.12.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.12.tar.bz2.sig

Use nearest mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

fc207561a86b63862eea4b8300313e86  cpio-2.12.tar.gz
93eea9f07c0058c097891c73e4955456  cpio-2.12.tar.bz2

b366685662ab26661c6204b4631af6232e48be3f  cpio-2.12.tar.gz
60358408c76db354f6716724c4bcbcb6e18ab642  cpio-2.12.tar.bz2

[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify cpio-2.12.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 55D0C732

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.69
  Automake 1.14
  Makeinfo 5.9.93
  Gnulib v0.1-542-gff871fc
  Gettext 0.19.6

Noteworthy changes in this release:

* Improved documentation.

* New options for copy-out mode:

** --ignore-devno

Store 0 in the device number fields, instead of the actual device
number.

** --renumber-inodes

Renumber inodes when storing them in the archive.

** --device-independent or --reproducible

Create reproducible archives.  This is equivalent to
--ignore-devno --renumber-inodes.

Regards,
Sergey