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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-15 17:16:40 -0500
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-16 00:38:02 -0500
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ANNOUNCE: Revise.
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@@ -29,21 +29,17 @@ while consuming minimal system resources.
Changes
=======
-Release candidate 4 resolves portability problems on 64-bit AIX and
-64-bit MinGW, with FreeBSD/NetBSD/AIX make(1), and with the Sun C
-compiler; improves the fallback used in groff's man pages to keep them
-rendering on systems that don't implement the new `MR` man(7) macro;
-makes generation of the distribution archive less dependent on the build
-configuration; makes the automated tests more robust and revealing;
-improves configuration checking for URW font availability; and updates
-the documentation.
-
-Since groff 1.22.4 was released in December 2018, 26 people have made a
+[[ maintainer: Document changes since RC4 here. ]]
+
+Since groff 1.22.4 was released in December 2018, 28 people have made a
total of over 4,500 commits.
[[ maintainer: Insert output of
"git shortlog --summary 1.22.4..1.23.0.rc4" ]]
+(Some possibly surprising names in the above are due to a rebase of
+groff me(7) against 4.4BSD.)
+
Headline features nominated by our development community include:
* a new 'man' macro, "MR", for formatting man page cross references;
* hyperlinked text in terminals via the ECMA-48 OSC 8 escape sequence;
@@ -102,7 +98,7 @@ which they apply, we find the following.
Another way of capturing the amount of revision is as follows.
-$ git diff --stat 1.22.4 1.23.0 | tail -n 1
+$ git diff --stat 1.22.4 1.23.0.rc4 | tail -n 1
[[ maintainer: insert output ]]
Obtaining groff
@@ -137,7 +133,9 @@ sha256sum < groff-1.23.0.rc4.tar.gz | cut -f1 -d\ | xxd -r -p | base64
If that command fails because you don't have the required public
key, you can import it.
- gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys [[ maintainer: keyID ]]
+ wget -O 96214.asc \
+ 'https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=96214'
+ gpg --import 96214.asc
Re-run the 'gpg --verify' command subsequently.