--- code/trunk/ChangeLog 2008/01/01 20:09:30 296 +++ code/trunk/ChangeLog 2008/01/23 17:34:58 311 @@ -1,7 +1,42 @@ ChangeLog for PCRE ------------------ -Version 7.5 31-Dec-07 +Version 7.6 21-Jan-08 +--------------------- + +1. A character class containing a very large number of characters with + codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course) caused a buffer + overflow. + +2. Patch to cut out the "long long" test in pcrecpp_unittest when + HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined. + +3. Applied Christian Ehrlicher's patch to update the CMake build files to + bring them up to date and include new features. This patch includes: + + - Fixed PH's badly added libz and libbz2 support. + - Fixed a problem with static linking. + - Added pcredemo. + - Fixed dftables problem and added an option. + - Added a number of HAVE_XXX tests, including HAVE_WINDOWS_H and + HAVE_LONG_LONG. + - Added readline support for pcretest. + - Added an listing of the option settings after cmake has run. + +4. A user submitted a patch to Makefile that makes it easy to created a dll + under mingw. I added stuff to Makefile.am that cause it to include this + special target, without affecting anything else. + +5. Applied Craig's patch that moves no_arg into the RE class in the C++ code. + This is an attempt to solve the reported problem "pcrecpp::no_arg is not + exported in the Windows port". It has not yet been confirmed that the patch + solves the problem, but it does no harm. + +6. Applied Sheri's patch to CMakeLists.txt to add NON_STANDARD_LIB_PREFIX and + NON_STANDARD_LIB_SUFFIX and correct the comment about stack recursion. + + +Version 7.5 10-Jan-08 --------------------- 1. Applied a patch from Craig: "This patch makes it possible to 'ignore' @@ -99,7 +134,9 @@ 20. In pcrecpp.cc, the variable 'count' was incremented twice in RE::GlobalReplace(). As a result, the number of replacements returned was - double what it should be. I have removed one of the increments. + double what it should be. I removed one of the increments, but Craig sent a + later patch that removed the other one (the right fix) and added unit tests + that check the return values (which was not done before). 21. Several CMake things: @@ -110,28 +147,28 @@ linked with the newly-built libraries, not previously installed ones. (3) Added PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBREADLINE, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBZ, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBBZ2. - -22. In UTF-8 mode, with newline set to "any", a pattern such as .*a.*=.b.* - crashed when matching a string such as a\x{2029}b (note that \x{2029} is a - UTF-8 newline character). The key issue is that the pattern starts .*; - this means that the match must be either at the beginning, or after a - newline. The bug was in the code for advancing after a failed match and - checking that the new position followed a newline. It was not taking + +22. In UTF-8 mode, with newline set to "any", a pattern such as .*a.*=.b.* + crashed when matching a string such as a\x{2029}b (note that \x{2029} is a + UTF-8 newline character). The key issue is that the pattern starts .*; + this means that the match must be either at the beginning, or after a + newline. The bug was in the code for advancing after a failed match and + checking that the new position followed a newline. It was not taking account of UTF-8 characters correctly. - -23. PCRE was behaving differently from Perl in the way it recognized POSIX - character classes. PCRE was not treating the sequence [:...:] as a - character class unless the ... were all letters. Perl, however, seems to - allow any characters between [: and :], though of course it rejects as - unknown any "names" that contain non-letters, because all the known class - names consist only of letters. Thus, Perl gives an error for [[:1234:]], - for example, whereas PCRE did not - it did not recognize a POSIX character - class. This seemed a bit dangerous, so the code has been changed to be - closer to Perl. The behaviour is not identical to Perl, because PCRE will - diagnose an unknown class for, for example, [[:l\ower:]] where Perl will - treat it as [[:lower:]]. However, PCRE does now give "unknown" errors where - Perl does, and where it didn't before. - + +23. PCRE was behaving differently from Perl in the way it recognized POSIX + character classes. PCRE was not treating the sequence [:...:] as a + character class unless the ... were all letters. Perl, however, seems to + allow any characters between [: and :], though of course it rejects as + unknown any "names" that contain non-letters, because all the known class + names consist only of letters. Thus, Perl gives an error for [[:1234:]], + for example, whereas PCRE did not - it did not recognize a POSIX character + class. This seemed a bit dangerous, so the code has been changed to be + closer to Perl. The behaviour is not identical to Perl, because PCRE will + diagnose an unknown class for, for example, [[:l\ower:]] where Perl will + treat it as [[:lower:]]. However, PCRE does now give "unknown" errors where + Perl does, and where it didn't before. + 24. Rewrite so as to remove the single use of %n from pcregrep because in some Windows environments %n is disabled by default.