This is to announce grep-2.12, a stable release. There have been 22 commits by 3 people in the 7 weeks since 2.11. In spite of the relatively small number of commits, this is a significant delta, with two regression fixes, Paul's conversion, From grep's crufty old dir-traversal code to the use of gnulib's fts and the change to how -r (--recursive) works.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Allan McRae (1) Jim Meyering (17) Paul Eggert (4) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers] ================================================================== Here is the GNU grep home page: http://gnu.org/s/grep/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.12 or run this command from a git-cloned grep directory: git shortlog v2.11..v2.12 To summarize the 366 gnulib-related changes, run these commands From a git-cloned grep directory: git checkout v2.12 git submodule summary v2.11 ================================================================== Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz.sig [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify grep-2.12.tar.xz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68b.19-eaa96 Automake 1.11e Gnulib v0.0-7338-gd06b2e5 ================================================================== NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 2.12 (2012-04-23) [stable] ** Bug fixes "echo P|grep --devices=skip P" once again prints P, as it did in 2.10 [bug introduced in grep-2.11] grep no longer segfaults with -r --exclude-dir and no file operand. I.e., ":|grep -r --exclude-dir=D PAT" would segfault. [bug introduced in grep-2.11] Recursive grep now uses fts for directory traversal, so it can handle much-larger directories without reporting things like "File name too long", and it can run much faster when dealing with large directory hierarchies. [bug present since the beginning] grep -E 'a{1000000000}' now reports an overflow error rather than silently acting like grep -E 'a\{1000000000}'. ** New features The -R option now has a long-option alias --dereference-recursive. ** Changes in behavior The -r (--recursive) option now follows only command-line symlinks. Also, by default -r now reads a device only if it is named on the command line; this can be overridden with --devices. -R acts as before, so use -R if you prefer the old behavior of following all symlinks and defaulting to reading all devices. ----- also posted as: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7207
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