Version 2.0.4 of GNU shtool
Release Notes: Portability was enhanced even more by maximizing Bourne Shell compatibility under zsh and bash and avoiding NLS dependencies. Missing documentation was added for the "shtool tarball" option "-d".
Other releases
Release Notes: This release adds support for the Sun Niagara (sun4v) architecture, and enhances recognition of Sun Solaris on the AMD-64 architecture.
Release Notes: The "shtool version" command was fixed.
Release Notes: Portability was enhanced even more by maximizing Bourne Shell compatibility under zsh and bash and avoiding NLS dependencies. Missing documentation was added for the "shtool tarball" option "-d".
Release Notes: "shtool mdate" now resets TIME_STYLE, as GNU coreutils' "ls" changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE variable. "shtool platform" now uses "env -i sort" for Linux detections to circumvent LC_COLLATE and LANG environment problems. "shtool version -l perl" has been fixed by replacing "my" with "our". FreeBSD/AMD-64 on iX86/EM64T detection has been improved within "shtool platform".
Release Notes: Insecure temporary file handling was fixed (see CAN-2005-1751 and CAN-2005-1759). Platform detection support was added for Mandriva Linux, Ubuntu Linux, and IBM PASE/AIX.
