GNU Coreutils 9.0: cp Now Enables CoW By Default + Copy Offload, wc Now Uses AVX2 Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 24 September 2021 at 01:36 PM EDT. 18 Comments Coreutils 9.0 is now available and it's a significant update to this collection of common open-source utilities found on effectively all Linux systems. First up, the widely-used cp utility for copying files/directories has some notabl