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 [4.5.3]
+* du --dereference-args (-D) no longer fails in certain cases
 * `ln --target-dir=DIR' no longer fails when given a single argument
 [4.5.2]
 * `rm -i dir' (without --recursive (-r)) no longer recurses into dir