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I'd like to test coreutils but cannot find the docs for how to install
a test version.
Sorry, but I don't see anything in setup.exe that would facilitate
installing a test version, seems I recall that test versions were
available to install via setup.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:43 PM Cygwin coreutils Co-Maintainer
<Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca> wrote:
>
> The following test package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * coreutils     9.0
>
> GNU core utilities (includes fileutils, shellutils and textutils)
>
> Common core utilities include: [ arch b2sum base32 base64
> basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date
> dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold
> gkill groups head hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir
> mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc numfmt od paste pathchk pinky
> pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink realpath rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum
> sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat
> stdbuf stty sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate
> tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes
>
> Please test these Base category utilities as extensively as possible
> (especially if you are a Cygwin package maintainer) as this package is
> used in all installations and the latest test release had issues.
> I have it locally installed so it is used by commands, scripts,
> cron jobs, and cygport builds, so it has and is getting frequent
> exercise with no apparent issues so far.
> If no issues are reported within a couple of weeks the package will be
> upgraded to current.
>
> For more information, see the project home pages:
>
>         https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils
>         https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils
>
> In case of doubts about changes, it may be useful to check the FAQ or Gotchas:
>
>         https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html
>         https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
>
> For changes since the previous Cygwin release, see below or read
> /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS after installation; for complete details see:
>
>         https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/v9.0/NEWS
>         https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=log;h=refs/tags/v9.0
>         /usr/share/doc/coreutils/ChangeLog
>
>
> Noteworthy changes in release 9.0 (2021-09-24)
>
> Bug fixes
>
> * chmod -v no longer misreports modes of dangling symlinks.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
>
> * cp -a --attributes-only now never removes destination files,
>   even if the destination files are hardlinked, or the source
>   is a non regular file.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
>
> * csplit --suppress-matched now elides the last matched line
>   when a specific number of pattern matches are performed.
>   [bug introduced with the --suppress-matched feature in coreutils-8.22]
>
> * df no longer outputs duplicate remote mounts in the presence of bind mounts.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
>
> * df no longer mishandles command-line args that it pre-mounts
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.29]
>
> * du no longer crashes on XFS file systems when the directory hierarchy is
>   heavily changed during the run.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.25]
>
> * env -S no longer crashes when given unusual whitespace characters
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.30]
>
> * expr no longer mishandles unmatched \(...\) in regular expressions.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
>
> * ls no longer crashes when printing the SELinux context for unstatable files.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.91]
>
> * mkdir -m no longer mishandles modes more generous than the umask.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
>
> * nl now handles single character --section-delimiter arguments,
>   by assuming a second ':' character has been specified, as specified by POSIX.
>   [This bug was present in "the beginning".]
>
> * pr again adjusts tabs in input, to maintain alignment in multi column output.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9]
>
> * rm no longer skips an extra file when the removal of an empty directory fails.
>   [bug introduced by the rewrite to use fts in coreutils-8.0]
>
> * split --number=K/N will again correctly split chunk K of N to stdout.
>   Previously a chunk starting after 128KiB, output the wrong part of the file.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
>
> * tail -f no longer overruns a stack buffer when given too many files
>   to follow and ulimit -n exceeds 1024.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
>
> * tr no longer crashes when using --complement with certain
>   invalid combinations of case character classes.
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
>
> * basenc --base64 --decode no longer silently discards decoded characters
>   on (1024*5) buffer boundaries
>   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.31]
>
> Changes in behavior
>
> * cp and install now default to copy-on-write (COW) if available.
>
> * cp, install and mv now use the copy_file_range syscall if available.
>   Also, they use lseek+SEEK_HOLE rather than ioctl+FS_IOC_FIEMAP on sparse
>   files, as lseek is simpler and more portable.
>
> * On GNU/Linux systems, ls no longer issues an error message on a
>   directory merely because it was removed.  This reverts a change
>   that was made in release 8.32.
>
> * ptx -T no longer attempts to substitute old-fashioned TeX escapes
>   for 8-bit non-ASCII alphabetic characters.  TeX indexes should
>   instead use '\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}' or equivalent.
>
> * stat will use decomposed (major,minor) device numbers in its default format.
>   This is less ambiguous, and more consistent with ls.
>
> * sum [-r] will output a file name, even if only a single name is passed.
>   This is consistent with sum -s, cksum, and other sum(1) implementations.
>
> New Features
>
> * cksum now supports the -a (--algorithm) option to select any
>   of the existing sum, md5sum, b2sum, sha*sum implementations etc.
>   cksum now subsumes all of these programs, and coreutils
>   will introduce no future standalone checksum utility.
>
> * cksum -a now supports the 'sm3' argument, to use the SM3 digest algorithm.
>
> * cksum --check now supports auto detecting the digest type to use,
>   when verifying tagged format checksums.
>
> * expr and factor now support bignums on all platforms.
>
> * ls --classify now supports the "always", "auto", or "never" flags,
>   to support only outputting classifier characters if connected to a tty.
>
> * ls now accepts the --sort=width option, to sort by file name width.
>   This is useful to more compactly organize the default vertical column output.
>
> * ls now accepts the --zero option, to terminate each output line with
>   NUL instead of newline.
>
> * nl --line-increment can now take a negative number to decrement the count.
>
> * stat supports more formats for representing decomposed device numbers.
>   %Hd,%Ld and %Hr,%Lr will output major,minor device numbers and device types
>   respectively.  %d corresponds to st_dev and %r to std_rdev.
>
> Improvements
>
> * cat --show-ends will now show \r\n as ^M$.  Previously the \r was taken
>   literally, thus overwriting the first character in the line with '$'.
>
> * cksum [-a crc] is now up to 4 times faster by using a slice by 8 algorithm,
>   and at least 8 times faster where pclmul instructions are supported.
>   A new --debug option will indicate if pclmul is being used.
>
> * md5sum --check now supports checksum files with CRLF line endings.
>   This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum.
>
> * df now recognizes these file systems as remote:
>   acfs, coda, fhgfs, gpfs, ibrix, ocfs2, and vxfs.
>
> * rmdir now clarifies the error if a symlink_to_dir/ has not been traversed.
>   This is the case on GNU/Linux systems, where the trailing slash is ignored.
>
> * stat and tail now know about the "devmem", "exfat", "secretmem", "vboxsf",
>   and "zonefs" file system types.  stat -f -c%T now reports the file system
>   type, and tail -f uses polling for "vboxsf" and inotify for the others.
>
> * timeout now supports sub-second timeouts on macOS.
>
> * wc is up to 5 times faster when counting only new line characters,
>   where avx2 instructions are supported.
>   A new --debug option will indicate if avx2 is being used.
>
>
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