Hi folks, First, a clarification of one of my emails from yesterday:
The code _freeze_ is now lifted/thawed. I was running on fumes when I
composed that message. (And I'm running on them again tonight, but also
greatly relived to finally have the 1.25 release out.)
Speaking of the new release, over a dozen distributors have packaged it
already, within 24 hours of upload. A major of these appear to be
auto-monitoring the GNU FTP site, since they had their packages out
before I even sent the release announcement.
According to repology dot org, here are our sprint champions:
* aerynOS
* CRUX (3.8)
* Cygwin
* Debian (unstable)
* Devuan (unstable)
* Exherbo
* Homebrew
* KaOS ("Build", their rolling/unstable stream, I guess)
* openmamba
* Slackware
* stal/IX (I wonder if this distro has an aggressive purge policy)
* starkOS
* T2 SDE
* Termux
* Vylen Linux (et voilá!)
Fedora and OpenSUSE are seldom quick to package new groffs, so I
wouldn't expect them terribly soon--but they get there eventually.
Regarding the thawed code freeze, I've pushed my first batch of feature
changes. I've had these in queue in a private branch, and still have
some more to cherry-pick and finalize with change logs and such.
Here are the first NEWS items for groff 1.26.
VERSION next
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troff
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* The `ne` request no longer performs an operation if it is given an
invalid argument. This change is inconsistent with AT&T troff but
more consistent with general *roff syntax.
* The `shift` request no longer performs an operation if it is given an
invalid argument.
* A new read-only register `.sv` reports the amount of vertical space
saved by the most recent `sv` request, if it has not yet been output
with the `os` request.
* The `pev` request now reports the environment's modified glyph height
and slant, as applicable; and its selected control and no-break
control characters.
* The formatter now emits a warning in category "style" if -crementing
interpolation (such as `\n+[myreg]` or `\n-[count]`) is (uselessly)
applied to a non-auto-crementing register.
Comments? Objections?
Regards,
Branden
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