You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PermissionsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.233,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Path-restricted Bash permission checks stopped extracting sort's -o/--output= target and stopped running a separate write-permission deny pass for sort and uniq. Both now use the generic positional-file handling and default to read access.
Details
The read-only sed downgrade, where a sed command judged non-mutating is checked as a read rather than a write, is preserved and now inline.
Evidence
sort contents of files from
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.