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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes - With -P, patterns like [\d] now work again. The fix relies on PCRE2 - support for the PCRE2_EXTRA_ASCII_BSD flag planned for PCRE2 10.43. - With PCRE2 version 10.42 or earlier, behavior reverts to that of - grep 3.8, in that patterns like \w and \b use ASCII rather than - Unicode interpretations. + With -P, patterns like [\d] now work again. Fixing this has caused + grep to revert to the behavior of grep 3.8, in that patterns like \w + and \b go back to using ASCII rather than Unicode interpretations. + However, future versions of GNU grep and/or PCRE2 are likely to fix + this and change the behavior of \w and \b back to Unicode again, + without breaking [\d] as 3.10 did. [bug introduced in grep 3.10] grep no longer fails on files dated after the year 2038, @@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- previous versions of grep wouldn't respect the user provided settings for PCRE_CFLAGS and PCRE_LIBS when building if a libpcre2-8 pkg-config module - found in the system. + was found. + * Noteworthy changes in release 3.10 (2023-03-22) [stable] |