Thank you so much for these details and updates, Philip! Much appreciated.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 6:36 AM Philip Hazel <philip.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > PCRE2 (the 10.xx series) was released at the start of 2015. At that time, > the feature set of PCRE1 (the 8.xx) series was frozen. However, we > continued to fix bugs in PCRE1 for some years because we know that it takes > time for programs to be updated to the new API. (When I say "we" I mean "I" > for the compiling and interpreting code, and the JIT maintainer for the JIT > features, with help and contributions from PCRE users.) The most recent > release of PCRE1 is 8.44, February 2020. Five years had passed since the > release of PCRE2 and I had lost familiarity with the PCRE1 code, so I > thought it was time to call a halt to PCRE1 after that release. I have to > say that, another year having passed, there would have to be some totally > catastrophic issue for me even to consider looking at the PCRE1 code again > now. > > In the meantime, development has continued with PCRE2, as well as a lot of > code refactoring, manual and automatic testing, and auditing. It is now a > much better piece of software than PCRE1. We encourage all developers to > move to PCRE2 if they can. > > Philip > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 11:38, Jeannie Cain via Pcre-dev <pcre-dev@exim.org> > wrote: > >> Hello - >> Can you please tell me exactly what this means? Is there any current >> ongoing support or simply "fixing" as someone flags an issue? >> >> Note that the PCRE 8.xx series (PCRE1) is now in a bugfix-only state. All >> development is happening in the PCRE2 10.xx series. >> >> -- >> *JEANNIE CAIN* >> Senior IT Security Manager >> *mobile* +1-512-806-8227 >> *email* jeannie.c...@sparkpost.com >> <https://sparkpo.st/dnmva> >> -- >> ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev >> > -- *JEANNIE CAIN* Senior IT Security Manager *mobile* +1-512-806-8227 *email* jeannie.c...@sparkpost.com <https://sparkpo.st/dnmva> -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
