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News about PCRE releases |
News about PCRE releases |
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Release 8.21 05-Dec-2011 |
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This is mostly a bug-fix release. The only new feature is the ability to obtain |
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the memory used by the JIT compiler. |
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Release 8.20 21-Oct-2011 |
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The main change in this release is the inclusion of Zoltan Herczeg's |
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just-in-time compiler support, which can be accessed by building PCRE with |
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--enable-jit. Large performance benefits can be had in many situations. 8.20 |
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also fixes an unfortunate bug that was introduced in 8.13 as well as tidying up |
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a number of infelicities and differences from Perl. |
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Release 8.13 16-Aug-2011 |
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This is mainly a bug-fix release. There has been a lot of internal refactoring. |
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The Unicode tables have been updated. The only new feature in the library is |
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the passing of *MARK information to callouts. Some additions have been made to |
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pcretest to make testing easier and more comprehensive. There is a new option |
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for pcregrep to adjust its internal buffer size. |
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Release 8.12 15-Jan-2011 |
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This release fixes some bugs in pcregrep, one of which caused the tests to fail |
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on 64-bit big-endian systems. There are no changes to the code of the library. |
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Release 8.11 10-Dec-2010 |
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A number of bugs in the library and in pcregrep have been fixed. As always, see |
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ChangeLog for details. The following are the non-bug-fix changes: |
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. Added --match-limit and --recursion-limit to pcregrep. |
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. Added an optional parentheses number to the -o and --only-matching options |
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of pcregrep. |
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. Changed the way PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD affects the matching of $, \z, \Z, \b, and |
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. Added PCRE_ERROR_SHORTUTF8 to make it possible to distinguish between a |
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bad UTF-8 sequence and one that is incomplete when using PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD. |
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. Recognize (*NO_START_OPT) at the start of a pattern to set the PCRE_NO_ |
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Release 8.10 25-Jun-2010 |
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There are two major additions: support for (*MARK) and friends, and the option |
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PCRE_UCP, which changes the behaviour of \b, \d, \s, and \w (and their |
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opposites) so that they make use of Unicode properties. There are also a number |
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of lesser new features, and several bugs have been fixed. A new option, |
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--line-buffered, has been added to pcregrep, for use when it is connected to |
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pipes. |
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Release 8.02 19-Mar-2010 |
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Another bug-fix release. |
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Release 8.01 19-Jan-2010 |
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This is a bug-fix release. Several bugs in the code itself and some bugs and |
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infelicities in the build system have been fixed. |
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Release 8.00 19-Oct-09 |
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Bugs have been fixed in the library and in pcregrep. There are also some |
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enhancements. Restrictions on patterns used for partial matching have been |
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removed, extra information is given for partial matches, the partial matching |
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process has been improved, and an option to make a partial match override a |
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full match is available. The "study" process has been enhanced by finding a |
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lower bound matching length. Groups with duplicate numbers may now have |
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duplicated names without the use of PCRE_DUPNAMES. However, they may not have |
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different names. The documentation has been revised to reflect these changes. |
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The version number has been expanded to 3 digits as it is clear that the rate |
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of change is not slowing down. |
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Release 7.9 11-Apr-09 |
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Mostly bugfixes and tidies with just a couple of minor functional additions. |
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Release 7.8 05-Sep-08 |
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More bug fixes, plus a performance improvement in Unicode character property |
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Release 7.7 07-May-08 |
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This is once again mainly a bug-fix release, but there are a couple of new |
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Release 7.6 28-Jan-08 |
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The main reason for having this release so soon after 7.5 is because it fixes a |
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potential buffer overflow problem in pcre_compile() when run in UTF-8 mode. In |
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addition, the CMake configuration files have been brought up to date. |
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Release 7.5 10-Jan-08 |
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This is mainly a bug-fix release. However the ability to link pcregrep with |
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libz or libbz2 and the ability to link pcretest with libreadline have been |
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added. Also the --line-offsets and --file-offsets options were added to |
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pcregrep. |
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Release 7.4 21-Sep-07 |
Release 7.4 21-Sep-07 |
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