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 News about PCRE releases
 ------------------------
 
+Release 4.0 17-Feb-03
+---------------------
+
+There have been a lot of changes for the 4.0 release, adding additional
+functionality and mending bugs. Below is a list of the highlights of the new
+functionality. For full details of these features, please consult the
+documentation. For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file.
+
+1. Support for Perl's \Q...\E escapes.
+
+2. "Possessive quantifiers" ?+, *+, ++, and {,}+ which come from Sun's Java
+package. They provide some syntactic sugar for simple cases of "atomic
+grouping".
+
+3. Support for the \G assertion. It is true when the current matching position
+is at the start point of the match.
+
+4. A new feature that provides some of the functionality that Perl provides
+with (?{...}). The facility is termed a "callout". The way it is done in PCRE
+is for the caller to provide an optional function, by setting pcre_callout to
+its entry point. To get the function called, the regex must include (?C) at
+appropriate points.
+
+5. Support for recursive calls to individual subpatterns. This makes it really
+easy to get totally confused.
+
+6. Support for named subpatterns. The Python syntax (?P<name>...) is used to
+name a group.
+
+7. Several extensions to UTF-8 support; it is now fairly complete. There is an
+option for pcregrep to make it operate in UTF-8 mode.
+
+8. The single man page has been split into a number of separate man pages.
+These also give rise to individual HTML pages which are put in a separate
+directory. There is an index.html page that lists them all. Some hyperlinking
+between the pages has been installed.
+
+
+Release 3.5 15-Aug-01
+---------------------
+
+1. The configuring system has been upgraded to use later versions of autoconf
+and libtool. By default it builds both a shared and a static library if the OS
+supports it. You can use --disable-shared or --disable-static on the configure
+command if you want only one of them.
+
+2. The pcretest utility is now installed along with pcregrep because it is
+useful for users (to test regexs) and by doing this, it automatically gets
+relinked by libtool. The documentation has been turned into a man page, so
+there are now .1, .txt, and .html versions in /doc.
+
+3. Upgrades to pcregrep:
+   (i)   Added long-form option names like gnu grep.
+   (ii)  Added --help to list all options with an explanatory phrase.
+   (iii) Added -r, --recursive to recurse into sub-directories.
+   (iv)  Added -f, --file to read patterns from a file.
+
+4. Added --enable-newline-is-cr and --enable-newline-is-lf to the configure
+script, to force use of CR or LF instead of \n in the source. On non-Unix
+systems, the value can be set in config.h.
+
+5. The limit of 200 on non-capturing parentheses is a _nesting_ limit, not an
+absolute limit. Changed the text of the error message to make this clear, and
+likewise updated the man page.
+
+6. The limit of 99 on the number of capturing subpatterns has been removed.
+The new limit is 65535, which I hope will not be a "real" limit.
+
+
+Release 3.3 01-Aug-00
+---------------------
+
+There is some support for UTF-8 character strings. This is incomplete and
+experimental. The documentation describes what is and what is not implemented.
+Otherwise, this is just a bug-fixing release.
+
+
 Release 3.0 01-Feb-00
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