This is to announce CSSC-1.5.0-rc3, a beta release.

This is a release candidate for a future stable 1.5.0 release.

There have been 46 commits by 2 people in the 109 weeks since CSSC-1.5.0-rc2.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

  Greg A. Woods (1)
  Paul Bryce (2)
  James Youngman (43)

James
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Here is the GNU CSSC home page:
    https://gn ... rg/s/CSSC/

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature:
  https://alpha.gnu ... -1.5.0-rc3.tar.gz
  https://alpha.gnu ... .0-rc3.tar.gz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://www.gnu.o ... rg/order/ftp.html

Here are the SHA256 and SHA3-256 checksums:

  File: CSSC-1.5.0-rc3.tar.gz
  SHA256 sum:   a78bc23062b11c33a858acd8a08c173ea2957f763f5b7ddb2990c0fee7c71cec
  SHA3-256 sum: 20733dd3c517c1bb44c67088b1a208ebf00e1eab4ab21e806bd963869faf918a

Verify the SHA256 checksum with either sha256sum, sha256, or
'shasum -a 256'.

Verify the SHA3-256 checksum with 'cksum -a sha3 -l 256 --base64'
from coreutils-9.8.

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 CSSC-1.5.0-rc3.tar.gz.sig

The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:

  pub   rsa4096 2015-12-24 [SC]
        0CF4 E8D8 7159 3224 8428  32B8 88DD 9E08 C5DD ACB9
  uid   James Youngman <james@youngman.org>
  uid   James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  gpg --locate-external-key james@youngman.org

  gpg --recv-keys 88DD9E08C5DDACB9

  wget -q -O- 'https://savannah. ... SC&download=1' | gpg --import -

As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:

  wget -q https://ftp.gnu.o ... u/gnu-keyring.gpg
  gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify CSSC-1.5.0-rc3.tar.gz.sig

This release is based on the CSSC git repository, available as

  git clone https://https.git ... .org/git/CSSC.git

with commit 26add75e45f79cd493409ee2f0c2646849314aad tagged as v1.5.0-rc3.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:

  https://gitweb.gi ... tlog;h=v1.5.0-rc3

or run this command from a git-cloned CSSC directory:

  git shortlog 43b5b054701732df7ce24eb59821010c39c60cb6..v1.5.0-rc3

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.72
  Automake 1.17
  Gnulib 2026-06-08 88592a2880cf39a2f597cd0294a90d8dd7faa2df

NEWS

        * Some typos in error message have been fixed.

        * admin now supports combination of -r with -n as well as the
          portable combination of -r with -i.

        * Support "sccs sact"; the sact program already existed but
  could not previously be invoked via the sccs wrapper.
  Thanks to Greg A. Woods for this improvement.

        * In some places we now prefer "grep -E" to "egrep" in order
          to avoid a warning message from GNU grep.  Some very old
          versions of Unix may not support this option.

        * Various C++ portability improvements.

          version at which it still supported building with Automake.