<p>Pádraig Brady has <a
href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2026-09/msg00000.html">announced</a>
GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. "<q>There have been 288 commits by
16 people in the 21 weeks since 9.11</q>". New features include an <tt>-A</tt>
option for <a
href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/uname.1.html"><tt>uname</tt></a>
which labels all output, as well as adding awareness of the <a
href="https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/failfs.html">failfs</a> and <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1062163/">nullfs</a> file types to <a
href="https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/stat.1.html"><tt>stat</tt></a>
and <a
href="https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tail.1.html"><tt>tail</tt></a>.</p>

<p>There are many in this release as well, including a fix for a bug "<q>present
in 'the beginning'</q>" that caused some utilities to fail when traversing
hierarchies if files are being removed in parallel.</p>

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