#4752: grep-3.6
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Reporter: bdubbs | Owner: lfs-book
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 10.1
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by bdubbs):
This is to announce grep-3.6, a stable release.
There have been 18 commits by 3 people in the 6 weeks since 3.5.
This release has two important changes, a fix for a bug introduced in
grep-3.2 (from late 2018) and the removal of support for the long-
deprecated
GREP_OPTIONS envvar.
* Noteworthy changes in release 3.6 (2020-11-08) [stable]
* Changes in behavior
The GREP_OPTIONS environment variable no longer affects grep's behavior.
The variable was declared obsolescent in grep 2.21 (2014), and since
then any use had caused grep to issue a diagnostic.
* Bug fixes
grep's DFA matcher performed an invalid regex transformation
that would convert an ERE like a+a+a+ to a+a+, which would make
grep a+a+a+ mistakenly match "aa".
[Bug#44351 introduced in grep 3.2]
grep -P now reports the troublesome input filename upon PCRE execution
failure. Before, searching many files for something rare might fail
with
just "exceeded PCRE's backtracking limit". Now, it also reports which
file
triggered the failure.
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