| News about PCRE2 releases |
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| Version 10.21 12-January-2016 |
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| 1. Many bugs have been fixed. A large number of them were provoked only by very |
| strange pattern input, and were discovered by fuzzers. Some others were |
| discovered by code auditing. See ChangeLog for details. |
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| 2. The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode version 8.0.0. |
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| 3. For Perl compatibility in EBCDIC environments, ranges such as a-z in a |
| class, where both values are literal letters in the same case, omit the |
| non-letter EBCDIC code points within the range. |
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| 4. There have been a number of enhancements to the pcre2_substitute() function, |
| giving more flexibility to replacement facilities. It is now also possible to |
| cause the function to return the needed buffer size if the one given is too |
| small. |
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| 5. The PCRE2_ALT_VERBNAMES option causes the "name" parts of special verbs such |
| as (*THEN:name) to be processed for backslashes and to take note of |
| PCRE2_EXTENDED. |
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| 6. PCRE2_INFO_HASBACKSLASHC makes it possible for a client to find out if a |
| pattern uses \C, and --never-backslash-C makes it possible to compile a version |
| PCRE2 in which the use of \C is always forbidden. |
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| 7. A limit to the length of pattern that can be handled can now be set by |
| calling pcre2_set_max_pattern_length(). |
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| 8. When matching an unanchored pattern, a match can be required to begin within |
| a given number of code units after the start of the subject by calling |
| pcre2_set_offset_limit(). |
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| 9. The pcre2test program has been extended to test new facilities, and it can |
| now run the tests when LF on its own is not a valid newline sequence. |
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| 10. The RunTest script has also been updated to enable more tests to be run. |
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| 11. There have been some minor performance enhancements. |
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| Version 10.20 30-June-2015 |
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| 1. Callouts with string arguments and the pcre2_callout_enumerate() function |
| have been implemented. |
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| 2. The PCRE2_NEVER_BACKSLASH_C option, which locks out the use of \C, is added. |
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| 3. The PCRE2_ALT_CIRCUMFLEX option lets ^ match after a newline at the end of a |
| subject in multiline mode. |
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| 4. The way named subpatterns are handled has been refactored. The previous |
| approach had several bugs. |
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| 5. The handling of \c in EBCDIC environments has been changed to conform to the |
| perlebcdic document. This is an incompatible change. |
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| 6. Bugs have been mended, many of them discovered by fuzzers. |
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| Version 10.10 06-March-2015 |
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| 1. Serialization and de-serialization functions have been added to the API, |
| making it possible to save and restore sets of compiled patterns, though |
| restoration must be done in the same environment that was used for compilation. |
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| 2. The (*NO_JIT) feature has been added; this makes it possible for a pattern |
| creator to specify that JIT is not to be used. |
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| 3. A number of bugs have been fixed. In particular, bugs that caused building |
| on Windows using CMake to fail have been mended. |
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| Version 10.00 05-January-2015 |
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| Version 10.00 is the first release of PCRE2, a revised API for the PCRE |
| library. Changes prior to 10.00 are logged in the ChangeLog file for the old |
| API, up to item 20 for release 8.36. New programs are recommended to use the |
| new library. Programs that use the original (PCRE1) API will need changing |
| before linking with the new library. |
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