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  News about PCRE releases
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+ Release 8.30 04-February-2012
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+ Release 8.30 introduces a major new feature: support for 16-bit character
+ strings, compiled as a separate library. There are a few changes to the
+-bit library, in addition to some bug fixes.
+ . The pcre_info() function, which has been obsolete for over 10 years, has
+   been removed.
+ . When a compiled pattern was saved to a file and later reloaded on a host
+   with different endianness, PCRE used automatically to swap the bytes in some
+   of the data fields. With the advent of the 16-bit library, where more of this
+   swapping is needed, it is no longer done automatically. Instead, the bad
+   endianness is detected and a specific error is given. The user can then call
+   a new function called pcre_pattern_to_host_byte_order() (or an equivalent
+-bit function) to do the swap.
+ . In UTF-8 mode, the values 0xd800 to 0xdfff are not legal Unicode
+   code points and are now faulted. (They are the so-called "surrogates"
+   that are reserved for coding high values in UTF-16.)
  Release 8.21 12-Dec-2011
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