Annotation of embedaddon/pcre/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.4

1.1       misho       1: News about PCRE releases
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                      3: 
1.1.1.4 ! misho       4: Release 8.33 28-May-2013
        !             5: --------------------------
        !             6: 
        !             7: A number of bugs are fixed, and some performance improvements have been made.
        !             8: There are also some new features, of which these are the most important:
        !             9: 
        !            10: .  The behaviour of the backtracking verbs has been rationalized and
        !            11:    documented in more detail.
        !            12: 
        !            13: .  JIT now supports callouts and all of the backtracking verbs.
        !            14: 
        !            15: .  Unicode validation has been updated in the light of Unicode Corrigendum #9,
        !            16:    which points out that "non characters" are not "characters that may not
        !            17:    appear in Unicode strings" but rather "characters that are reserved for
        !            18:    internal use and have only local meaning".
        !            19: 
        !            20: .  (*LIMIT_MATCH=d) and (*LIMIT_RECURSION=d) have been added so that the
        !            21:    creator of a pattern can specify lower (but not higher) limits for the
        !            22:    matching process.
        !            23: 
        !            24: .  The PCRE_NEVER_UTF option is available to prevent pattern-writers from using
        !            25:    the (*UTF) feature, as this could be a security issue.
        !            26: 
        !            27: 
        !            28: Release 8.32 30-November-2012
        !            29: -----------------------------
        !            30: 
        !            31: This release fixes a number of bugs, but also has some new features. These are
        !            32: the highlights:
        !            33: 
        !            34: .  There is now support for 32-bit character strings and UTF-32. Like the
        !            35:    16-bit support, this is done by compiling a separate 32-bit library.
        !            36: 
        !            37: .  \X now matches a Unicode extended grapheme cluster.
        !            38: 
        !            39: .  Case-independent matching of Unicode characters that have more than one
        !            40:    "other case" now makes all three (or more) characters equivalent. This
        !            41:    applies, for example, to Greek Sigma, which has two lowercase versions.
        !            42: 
        !            43: .  Unicode character properties are updated to Unicode 6.2.0.
        !            44: 
        !            45: .  The EBCDIC support, which had decayed, has had a spring clean.
        !            46: 
        !            47: .  A number of JIT optimizations have been added, which give faster JIT
        !            48:    execution speed. In addition, a new direct interface to JIT execution is
        !            49:    available. This bypasses some of the sanity checks of pcre_exec() to give a
        !            50:    noticeable speed-up.
        !            51: 
        !            52: .  A number of issues in pcregrep have been fixed, making it more compatible
        !            53:    with GNU grep. In particular, --exclude and --include (and variants) apply
        !            54:    to all files now, not just those obtained from scanning a directory
        !            55:    recursively. In Windows environments, the default action for directories is
        !            56:    now "skip" instead of "read" (which provokes an error).
        !            57: 
        !            58: .  If the --only-matching (-o) option in pcregrep is specified multiple
        !            59:    times, each one causes appropriate output. For example, -o1 -o2 outputs the
        !            60:    substrings matched by the 1st and 2nd capturing parentheses. A separating
        !            61:    string can be specified by --om-separator (default empty).
        !            62: 
        !            63: .  When PCRE is built via Autotools using a version of gcc that has the
        !            64:    "visibility" feature, it is used to hide internal library functions that are
        !            65:    not part of the public API.
        !            66: 
        !            67: 
1.1.1.3   misho      68: Release 8.31 06-July-2012
                     69: -------------------------
                     70: 
                     71: This is mainly a bug-fixing release, with a small number of developments:
                     72: 
                     73: . The JIT compiler now supports partial matching and the (*MARK) and
                     74:   (*COMMIT) verbs.
                     75: 
1.1.1.4 ! misho      76: . PCRE_INFO_MAXLOOKBEHIND can be used to find the longest lookbehind in a
1.1.1.3   misho      77:   pattern.
                     78: 
                     79: . There should be a performance improvement when using the heap instead of the
                     80:   stack for recursion.
                     81: 
                     82: . pcregrep can now be linked with libedit as an alternative to libreadline.
                     83: 
                     84: . pcregrep now has a --file-list option where the list of files to scan is
                     85:   given as a file.
                     86: 
                     87: . pcregrep now recognizes binary files and there are related options.
                     88: 
                     89: . The Unicode tables have been updated to 6.1.0.
                     90: 
                     91: As always, the full list of changes is in the ChangeLog file.
                     92: 
                     93: 
1.1.1.2   misho      94: Release 8.30 04-February-2012
                     95: -----------------------------
                     96: 
                     97: Release 8.30 introduces a major new feature: support for 16-bit character
                     98: strings, compiled as a separate library. There are a few changes to the
                     99: 8-bit library, in addition to some bug fixes.
                    100: 
                    101: . The pcre_info() function, which has been obsolete for over 10 years, has
                    102:   been removed.
                    103: 
                    104: . When a compiled pattern was saved to a file and later reloaded on a host
                    105:   with different endianness, PCRE used automatically to swap the bytes in some
                    106:   of the data fields. With the advent of the 16-bit library, where more of this
                    107:   swapping is needed, it is no longer done automatically. Instead, the bad
                    108:   endianness is detected and a specific error is given. The user can then call
                    109:   a new function called pcre_pattern_to_host_byte_order() (or an equivalent
                    110:   16-bit function) to do the swap.
                    111: 
                    112: . In UTF-8 mode, the values 0xd800 to 0xdfff are not legal Unicode
                    113:   code points and are now faulted. (They are the so-called "surrogates"
                    114:   that are reserved for coding high values in UTF-16.)
                    115: 
                    116: 
1.1       misho     117: Release 8.21 12-Dec-2011
                    118: ------------------------
                    119: 
                    120: This is almost entirely a bug-fix release. The only new feature is the ability
                    121: to obtain the size of the memory used by the JIT compiler.
                    122: 
                    123: 
                    124: Release 8.20 21-Oct-2011
                    125: ------------------------
                    126: 
                    127: The main change in this release is the inclusion of Zoltan Herczeg's
                    128: just-in-time compiler support, which can be accessed by building PCRE with
                    129: --enable-jit. Large performance benefits can be had in many situations. 8.20
                    130: also fixes an unfortunate bug that was introduced in 8.13 as well as tidying up
                    131: a number of infelicities and differences from Perl.
                    132: 
                    133: 
                    134: Release 8.13 16-Aug-2011
                    135: ------------------------
                    136: 
                    137: This is mainly a bug-fix release. There has been a lot of internal refactoring.
                    138: The Unicode tables have been updated. The only new feature in the library is
                    139: the passing of *MARK information to callouts. Some additions have been made to
                    140: pcretest to make testing easier and more comprehensive. There is a new option
                    141: for pcregrep to adjust its internal buffer size.
                    142: 
                    143: 
                    144: Release 8.12 15-Jan-2011
                    145: ------------------------
                    146: 
                    147: This release fixes some bugs in pcregrep, one of which caused the tests to fail
                    148: on 64-bit big-endian systems. There are no changes to the code of the library.
                    149: 
                    150: 
                    151: Release 8.11 10-Dec-2010
                    152: ------------------------
                    153: 
                    154: A number of bugs in the library and in pcregrep have been fixed. As always, see
                    155: ChangeLog for details. The following are the non-bug-fix changes:
                    156: 
                    157: . Added --match-limit and --recursion-limit to pcregrep.
                    158: 
                    159: . Added an optional parentheses number to the -o and --only-matching options
                    160:   of pcregrep.
                    161: 
                    162: . Changed the way PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD affects the matching of $, \z, \Z, \b, and
                    163:   \B.
                    164: 
                    165: . Added PCRE_ERROR_SHORTUTF8 to make it possible to distinguish between a
                    166:   bad UTF-8 sequence and one that is incomplete when using PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD.
                    167: 
                    168: . Recognize (*NO_START_OPT) at the start of a pattern to set the PCRE_NO_
                    169:   START_OPTIMIZE option, which is now allowed at compile time
                    170: 
                    171: 
                    172: Release 8.10 25-Jun-2010
                    173: ------------------------
                    174: 
                    175: There are two major additions: support for (*MARK) and friends, and the option
                    176: PCRE_UCP, which changes the behaviour of \b, \d, \s, and \w (and their
                    177: opposites) so that they make use of Unicode properties. There are also a number
                    178: of lesser new features, and several bugs have been fixed. A new option,
                    179: --line-buffered, has been added to pcregrep, for use when it is connected to
                    180: pipes.
                    181: 
                    182: 
                    183: Release 8.02 19-Mar-2010
                    184: ------------------------
                    185: 
                    186: Another bug-fix release.
                    187: 
                    188: 
                    189: Release 8.01 19-Jan-2010
                    190: ------------------------
                    191: 
                    192: This is a bug-fix release. Several bugs in the code itself and some bugs and
                    193: infelicities in the build system have been fixed.
                    194: 
                    195: 
                    196: Release 8.00 19-Oct-09
                    197: ----------------------
                    198: 
                    199: Bugs have been fixed in the library and in pcregrep. There are also some
                    200: enhancements. Restrictions on patterns used for partial matching have been
                    201: removed, extra information is given for partial matches, the partial matching
                    202: process has been improved, and an option to make a partial match override a
                    203: full match is available. The "study" process has been enhanced by finding a
                    204: lower bound matching length. Groups with duplicate numbers may now have
                    205: duplicated names without the use of PCRE_DUPNAMES. However, they may not have
                    206: different names. The documentation has been revised to reflect these changes.
                    207: The version number has been expanded to 3 digits as it is clear that the rate
                    208: of change is not slowing down.
                    209: 
                    210: 
                    211: Release 7.9 11-Apr-09
                    212: ---------------------
                    213: 
                    214: Mostly bugfixes and tidies with just a couple of minor functional additions.
                    215: 
                    216: 
                    217: Release 7.8 05-Sep-08
                    218: ---------------------
                    219: 
                    220: More bug fixes, plus a performance improvement in Unicode character property
                    221: lookup.
                    222: 
                    223: 
                    224: Release 7.7 07-May-08
                    225: ---------------------
                    226: 
                    227: This is once again mainly a bug-fix release, but there are a couple of new
                    228: features.
                    229: 
                    230: 
                    231: Release 7.6 28-Jan-08
                    232: ---------------------
                    233: 
                    234: The main reason for having this release so soon after 7.5 is because it fixes a
                    235: potential buffer overflow problem in pcre_compile() when run in UTF-8 mode. In
                    236: addition, the CMake configuration files have been brought up to date.
                    237: 
                    238: 
                    239: Release 7.5 10-Jan-08
                    240: ---------------------
                    241: 
                    242: This is mainly a bug-fix release. However the ability to link pcregrep with
                    243: libz or libbz2 and the ability to link pcretest with libreadline have been
                    244: added. Also the --line-offsets and --file-offsets options were added to
                    245: pcregrep.
                    246: 
                    247: 
                    248: Release 7.4 21-Sep-07
                    249: ---------------------
                    250: 
                    251: The only change of specification is the addition of options to control whether
                    252: \R matches any Unicode line ending (the default) or just CR, LF, and CRLF.
                    253: Otherwise, the changes are bug fixes and a refactoring to reduce the number of
                    254: relocations needed in a shared library. There have also been some documentation
                    255: updates, in particular, some more information about using CMake to build PCRE
                    256: has been added to the NON-UNIX-USE file.
                    257: 
                    258: 
                    259: Release 7.3 28-Aug-07
                    260: ---------------------
                    261: 
                    262: Most changes are bug fixes. Some that are not:
                    263: 
                    264: 1. There is some support for Perl 5.10's experimental "backtracking control
                    265:    verbs" such as (*PRUNE).
                    266: 
                    267: 2. UTF-8 checking is now as per RFC 3629 instead of RFC 2279; this is more
                    268:    restrictive in the strings it accepts.
                    269: 
                    270: 3. Checking for potential integer overflow has been made more dynamic, and as a
                    271:    consequence there is no longer a hard limit on the size of a subpattern that
                    272:    has a limited repeat count.
                    273: 
                    274: 4. When CRLF is a valid line-ending sequence, pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec()
                    275:    no longer advance by two characters instead of one when an unanchored match
                    276:    fails at CRLF if there are explicit CR or LF matches within the pattern.
                    277:    This gets rid of some anomalous effects that previously occurred.
                    278: 
                    279: 5. Some PCRE-specific settings for varying the newline options at the start of
                    280:    a pattern have been added.
                    281: 
                    282: 
                    283: Release 7.2 19-Jun-07
                    284: ---------------------
                    285: 
                    286: WARNING: saved patterns that were compiled by earlier versions of PCRE must be
                    287: recompiled for use with 7.2 (necessitated by the addition of \K, \h, \H, \v,
                    288: and \V).
                    289: 
                    290: Correction to the notes for 7.1: the note about shared libraries for Windows is
                    291: wrong. Previously, three libraries were built, but each could function
                    292: independently. For example, the pcreposix library also included all the
                    293: functions from the basic pcre library. The change is that the three libraries
                    294: are no longer independent. They are like the Unix libraries. To use the
                    295: pcreposix functions, for example, you need to link with both the pcreposix and
                    296: the basic pcre library.
                    297: 
                    298: Some more features from Perl 5.10 have been added:
                    299: 
                    300:   (?-n) and (?+n) relative references for recursion and subroutines.
                    301: 
                    302:   (?(-n) and (?(+n) relative references as conditions.
                    303: 
                    304:   \k{name} and \g{name} are synonyms for \k<name>.
                    305: 
                    306:   \K to reset the start of the matched string; for example, (foo)\Kbar
                    307:   matches bar preceded by foo, but only sets bar as the matched string.
                    308: 
                    309:   (?| introduces a group where the capturing parentheses in each alternative
                    310:   start from the same number; for example, (?|(abc)|(xyz)) sets capturing
                    311:   parentheses number 1 in both cases.
                    312: 
                    313:   \h, \H, \v, \V match horizontal and vertical whitespace, respectively.
                    314: 
                    315: 
                    316: Release 7.1 24-Apr-07
                    317: ---------------------
                    318: 
                    319: There is only one new feature in this release: a linebreak setting of
                    320: PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF. It is a cut-down version of PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY, which
                    321: recognizes only CRLF, CR, and LF as linebreaks.
                    322: 
                    323: A few bugs are fixed (see ChangeLog for details), but the major change is a
                    324: complete re-implementation of the build system. This now has full Autotools
                    325: support and so is now "standard" in some sense. It should help with compiling
                    326: PCRE in a wide variety of environments.
                    327: 
                    328: NOTE: when building shared libraries for Windows, three dlls are now built,
                    329: called libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp. Previously, everything was
                    330: included in a single dll.
                    331: 
                    332: Another important change is that the dftables auxiliary program is no longer
                    333: compiled and run at "make" time by default. Instead, a default set of character
                    334: tables (assuming ASCII coding) is used. If you want to use dftables to generate
                    335: the character tables as previously, add --enable-rebuild-chartables to the
                    336: "configure" command. You must do this if you are compiling PCRE to run on a
                    337: system that uses EBCDIC code.
                    338: 
                    339: There is a discussion about character tables in the README file. The default is
                    340: not to use dftables so that that there is no problem when cross-compiling.
                    341: 
                    342: 
                    343: Release 7.0 19-Dec-06
                    344: ---------------------
                    345: 
                    346: This release has a new major number because there have been some internal
                    347: upheavals to facilitate the addition of new optimizations and other facilities,
                    348: and to make subsequent maintenance and extension easier. Compilation is likely
                    349: to be a bit slower, but there should be no major effect on runtime performance.
                    350: Previously compiled patterns are NOT upwards compatible with this release. If
                    351: you have saved compiled patterns from a previous release, you will have to
                    352: re-compile them. Important changes that are visible to users are:
                    353: 
                    354: 1. The Unicode property tables have been updated to Unicode 5.0.0, which adds
                    355:    some more scripts.
                    356: 
                    357: 2. The option PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY causes PCRE to recognize any Unicode newline
                    358:    sequence as a newline.
                    359: 
                    360: 3. The \R escape matches a single Unicode newline sequence as a single unit.
                    361: 
                    362: 4. New features that will appear in Perl 5.10 are now in PCRE. These include
                    363:    alternative Perl syntax for named parentheses, and Perl syntax for
                    364:    recursion.
                    365: 
                    366: 5. The C++ wrapper interface has been extended by the addition of a
                    367:    QuoteMeta function and the ability to allow copy construction and
                    368:    assignment.
                    369: 
                    370: For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file.
                    371: 
                    372: 
                    373: Release 6.7 04-Jul-06
                    374: ---------------------
                    375: 
                    376: The main additions to this release are the ability to use the same name for
                    377: multiple sets of parentheses, and support for CRLF line endings in both the
                    378: library and pcregrep (and in pcretest for testing).
                    379: 
                    380: Thanks to Ian Taylor, the stack usage for many kinds of pattern has been
                    381: significantly reduced for certain subject strings.
                    382: 
                    383: 
                    384: Release 6.5 01-Feb-06
                    385: ---------------------
                    386: 
                    387: Important changes in this release:
                    388: 
                    389: 1. A number of new features have been added to pcregrep.
                    390: 
                    391: 2. The Unicode property tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1.0, and the
                    392:    supported properties have been extended with script names such as "Arabic",
                    393:    and the derived properties "Any" and "L&". This has necessitated a change to
                    394:    the interal format of compiled patterns. Any saved compiled patterns that
                    395:    use \p or \P must be recompiled.
                    396: 
                    397: 3. The specification of recursion in patterns has been changed so that all
                    398:    recursive subpatterns are automatically treated as atomic groups. Thus, for
                    399:    example, (?R) is treated as if it were (?>(?R)). This is necessary because
                    400:    otherwise there are situations where recursion does not work.
                    401: 
                    402: See the ChangeLog for a complete list of changes, which include a number of bug
                    403: fixes and tidies.
                    404: 
                    405: 
                    406: Release 6.0 07-Jun-05
                    407: ---------------------
                    408: 
                    409: The release number has been increased to 6.0 because of the addition of several
                    410: major new pieces of functionality.
                    411: 
                    412: A new function, pcre_dfa_exec(), which implements pattern matching using a DFA
                    413: algorithm, has been added. This has a number of advantages for certain cases,
                    414: though it does run more slowly, and lacks the ability to capture substrings. On
                    415: the other hand, it does find all matches, not just the first, and it works
                    416: better for partial matching. The pcrematching man page discusses the
                    417: differences.
                    418: 
                    419: The pcretest program has been enhanced so that it can make use of the new
                    420: pcre_dfa_exec() matching function and the extra features it provides.
                    421: 
                    422: The distribution now includes a C++ wrapper library. This is built
                    423: automatically if a C++ compiler is found. The pcrecpp man page discusses this
                    424: interface.
                    425: 
                    426: The code itself has been re-organized into many more files, one for each
                    427: function, so it no longer requires everything to be linked in when static
                    428: linkage is used. As a consequence, some internal functions have had to have
                    429: their names exposed. These functions all have names starting with _pcre_. They
                    430: are undocumented, and are not intended for use by outside callers.
                    431: 
                    432: The pcregrep program has been enhanced with new functionality such as
                    433: multiline-matching and options for output more matching context. See the
                    434: ChangeLog for a complete list of changes to the library and the utility
                    435: programs.
                    436: 
                    437: 
                    438: Release 5.0 13-Sep-04
                    439: ---------------------
                    440: 
                    441: The licence under which PCRE is released has been changed to the more
                    442: conventional "BSD" licence.
                    443: 
                    444: In the code, some bugs have been fixed, and there are also some major changes
                    445: in this release (which is why I've increased the number to 5.0). Some changes
                    446: are internal rearrangements, and some provide a number of new facilities. The
                    447: new features are:
                    448: 
                    449: 1. There's an "automatic callout" feature that inserts callouts before every
                    450:    item in the regex, and there's a new callout field that gives the position
                    451:    in the pattern - useful for debugging and tracing.
                    452: 
                    453: 2. The extra_data structure can now be used to pass in a set of character
                    454:    tables at exec time. This is useful if compiled regex are saved and re-used
                    455:    at a later time when the tables may not be at the same address. If the
                    456:    default internal tables are used, the pointer saved with the compiled
                    457:    pattern is now set to NULL, which means that you don't need to do anything
                    458:    special unless you are using custom tables.
                    459: 
                    460: 3. It is possible, with some restrictions on the content of the regex, to
                    461:    request "partial" matching. A special return code is given if all of the
                    462:    subject string matched part of the regex. This could be useful for testing
                    463:    an input field as it is being typed.
                    464: 
                    465: 4. There is now some optional support for Unicode character properties, which
                    466:    means that the patterns items such as \p{Lu} and \X can now be used. Only
                    467:    the general category properties are supported. If PCRE is compiled with this
                    468:    support, an additional 90K data structure is include, which increases the
                    469:    size of the library dramatically.
                    470: 
                    471: 5. There is support for saving compiled patterns and re-using them later.
                    472: 
                    473: 6. There is support for running regular expressions that were compiled on a
                    474:    different host with the opposite endianness.
                    475: 
                    476: 7. The pcretest program has been extended to accommodate the new features.
                    477: 
                    478: The main internal rearrangement is that sequences of literal characters are no
                    479: longer handled as strings. Instead, each character is handled on its own. This
                    480: makes some UTF-8 handling easier, and makes the support of partial matching
                    481: possible. Compiled patterns containing long literal strings will be larger as a
                    482: result of this change; I hope that performance will not be much affected.
                    483: 
                    484: 
                    485: Release 4.5 01-Dec-03
                    486: ---------------------
                    487: 
                    488: Again mainly a bug-fix and tidying release, with only a couple of new features:
                    489: 
                    490: 1. It's possible now to compile PCRE so that it does not use recursive
                    491: function calls when matching. Instead it gets memory from the heap. This slows
                    492: things down, but may be necessary on systems with limited stacks.
                    493: 
                    494: 2. UTF-8 string checking has been tightened to reject overlong sequences and to
                    495: check that a starting offset points to the start of a character. Failure of the
                    496: latter returns a new error code: PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8_OFFSET.
                    497: 
                    498: 3. PCRE can now be compiled for systems that use EBCDIC code.
                    499: 
                    500: 
                    501: Release 4.4 21-Aug-03
                    502: ---------------------
                    503: 
                    504: This is mainly a bug-fix and tidying release. The only new feature is that PCRE
                    505: checks UTF-8 strings for validity by default. There is an option to suppress
                    506: this, just in case anybody wants that teeny extra bit of performance.
                    507: 
                    508: 
                    509: Releases 4.1 - 4.3
                    510: ------------------
                    511: 
                    512: Sorry, I forgot about updating the NEWS file for these releases. Please take a
                    513: look at ChangeLog.
                    514: 
                    515: 
                    516: Release 4.0 17-Feb-03
                    517: ---------------------
                    518: 
                    519: There have been a lot of changes for the 4.0 release, adding additional
                    520: functionality and mending bugs. Below is a list of the highlights of the new
                    521: functionality. For full details of these features, please consult the
                    522: documentation. For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file.
                    523: 
                    524: 1. Support for Perl's \Q...\E escapes.
                    525: 
                    526: 2. "Possessive quantifiers" ?+, *+, ++, and {,}+ which come from Sun's Java
                    527: package. They provide some syntactic sugar for simple cases of "atomic
                    528: grouping".
                    529: 
                    530: 3. Support for the \G assertion. It is true when the current matching position
                    531: is at the start point of the match.
                    532: 
                    533: 4. A new feature that provides some of the functionality that Perl provides
                    534: with (?{...}). The facility is termed a "callout". The way it is done in PCRE
                    535: is for the caller to provide an optional function, by setting pcre_callout to
                    536: its entry point. To get the function called, the regex must include (?C) at
                    537: appropriate points.
                    538: 
                    539: 5. Support for recursive calls to individual subpatterns. This makes it really
                    540: easy to get totally confused.
                    541: 
                    542: 6. Support for named subpatterns. The Python syntax (?P<name>...) is used to
                    543: name a group.
                    544: 
                    545: 7. Several extensions to UTF-8 support; it is now fairly complete. There is an
                    546: option for pcregrep to make it operate in UTF-8 mode.
                    547: 
                    548: 8. The single man page has been split into a number of separate man pages.
                    549: These also give rise to individual HTML pages which are put in a separate
                    550: directory. There is an index.html page that lists them all. Some hyperlinking
                    551: between the pages has been installed.
                    552: 
                    553: 
                    554: Release 3.5 15-Aug-01
                    555: ---------------------
                    556: 
                    557: 1. The configuring system has been upgraded to use later versions of autoconf
                    558: and libtool. By default it builds both a shared and a static library if the OS
                    559: supports it. You can use --disable-shared or --disable-static on the configure
                    560: command if you want only one of them.
                    561: 
                    562: 2. The pcretest utility is now installed along with pcregrep because it is
                    563: useful for users (to test regexs) and by doing this, it automatically gets
                    564: relinked by libtool. The documentation has been turned into a man page, so
                    565: there are now .1, .txt, and .html versions in /doc.
                    566: 
                    567: 3. Upgrades to pcregrep:
                    568:    (i)   Added long-form option names like gnu grep.
                    569:    (ii)  Added --help to list all options with an explanatory phrase.
                    570:    (iii) Added -r, --recursive to recurse into sub-directories.
                    571:    (iv)  Added -f, --file to read patterns from a file.
                    572: 
                    573: 4. Added --enable-newline-is-cr and --enable-newline-is-lf to the configure
                    574: script, to force use of CR or LF instead of \n in the source. On non-Unix
                    575: systems, the value can be set in config.h.
                    576: 
                    577: 5. The limit of 200 on non-capturing parentheses is a _nesting_ limit, not an
                    578: absolute limit. Changed the text of the error message to make this clear, and
                    579: likewise updated the man page.
                    580: 
                    581: 6. The limit of 99 on the number of capturing subpatterns has been removed.
                    582: The new limit is 65535, which I hope will not be a "real" limit.
                    583: 
                    584: 
                    585: Release 3.3 01-Aug-00
                    586: ---------------------
                    587: 
                    588: There is some support for UTF-8 character strings. This is incomplete and
                    589: experimental. The documentation describes what is and what is not implemented.
                    590: Otherwise, this is just a bug-fixing release.
                    591: 
                    592: 
                    593: Release 3.0 01-Feb-00
                    594: ---------------------
                    595: 
                    596: 1. A "configure" script is now used to configure PCRE for Unix systems. It
                    597: builds a Makefile, a config.h file, and the pcre-config script.
                    598: 
                    599: 2. PCRE is built as a shared library by default.
                    600: 
                    601: 3. There is support for POSIX classes such as [:alpha:].
                    602: 
                    603: 5. There is an experimental recursion feature.
                    604: 
                    605: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    606:           IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSIONS BEFORE 2.00
                    607: 
                    608: Please note that there has been a change in the API such that a larger
                    609: ovector is required at matching time, to provide some additional workspace.
                    610: The new man page has details. This change was necessary in order to support
                    611: some of the new functionality in Perl 5.005.
                    612: 
                    613:           IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSION 2.00
                    614: 
                    615: Another (I hope this is the last!) change has been made to the API for the
                    616: pcre_compile() function. An additional argument has been added to make it
                    617: possible to pass over a pointer to character tables built in the current
1.1.1.4 ! misho     618: locale by pcre_maketables(). To use the default tables, this new argument
1.1       misho     619: should be passed as NULL.
                    620: 
                    621:           IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSION 2.05
                    622: 
                    623: Yet another (and again I hope this really is the last) change has been made
                    624: to the API for the pcre_exec() function. An additional argument has been
                    625: added to make it possible to start the match other than at the start of the
                    626: subject string. This is important if there are lookbehinds. The new man
                    627: page has the details, but you just want to convert existing programs, all
                    628: you need to do is to stick in a new fifth argument to pcre_exec(), with a
                    629: value of zero. For example, change
                    630: 
                    631:   pcre_exec(pattern, extra, subject, length, options, ovec, ovecsize)
                    632: to
                    633:   pcre_exec(pattern, extra, subject, length, 0, options, ovec, ovecsize)
                    634: 
                    635: ****

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