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

There have been 424 commits by 2 people since 1.4.1.   Thanks to Greg A. Woods for helping to improve CSSC.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

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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 ... CSSC-1.5.0.tar.gz
  https://alpha.gnu ... -1.5.0.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.tar.gz
  SHA256 sum:   8483a31aac756955843ef574bed6fa9e052ea492217f3882033487d2704c6cf4
  SHA3-256 sum: c138c32cab373a51c32d2049064532ac24a6fa777b7edecabe4d605460018845

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.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.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 77bdce39a09b9ff37831c4dd1cb0d4dd5967cb39 tagged as v1.5.0.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:

  https://gitweb.gi ... shortlog;h=v1.5.0

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

  git shortlog CSSC-1.4.1..v1.5.0

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

NEWS

        * The test suite no longer depends on Python, so it should
work on older systems that have no Python 3 interpreter. While you can
build and test CSSC without Python, you do need a Python interpreter
to do some maintenance tasks (such as importing the "gnulib" code into
a git checkout).

        * Tolerate SCCS files in which file flags lack the space
separator which would normally come between the flag letter and the
associated value.

        * 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.

        * Updated version of gnulib.

        * Updated version of googletest; this is now at the last
version at which it still supported building with Automake.

        * This release is more careful to detect I/O failures when
writing to stdout in prs and prt.

        * This release should build on more modern platforms.

        * The --with-googletest configure option is removed (now we
always use it).

        * Updated versions of gnulib and googletest.