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 News about PCRE releases
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+Release 8.31 02-June-2012
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+
+This is mainly a bug-fixing release, with a small number of developments:
+
+. The JIT compiler now supports partial matching and the (*MARK) and
+  (*COMMIT) verbs.
+
+. PCRE_INFO_MAXLOOKBEHIND can be used to find the longest lookbehing in a
+  pattern.
+
+. There should be a performance improvement when using the heap instead of the
+  stack for recursion.
+
+. pcregrep can now be linked with libedit as an alternative to libreadline.
+
+. pcregrep now has a --file-list option where the list of files to scan is
+  given as a file.
+
+. pcregrep now recognizes binary files and there are related options.
+
+. The Unicode tables have been updated to 6.1.0.
+
+As always, the full list of changes is in the ChangeLog file.
+
+
 Release 8.30 04-February-2012
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