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  ChangeLog for PCRE
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- Version 7.5 12-Nov-07
+ Version 7.9 xx-xxx-09
+ ---------------------
+.  When building with support for bzlib/zlib (pcregrep) and/or readline
+     (pcretest), all targets were linked against these libraries. This included
+     libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp, even though they do not use these
+     libraries. This caused unwanted dependencies to be created. This problem
+     has been fixed, and now only pcregrep is linked with bzlib/zlib and only
+     pcretest is linked with readline.
+.  The "typedef int BOOL" in pcre_internal.h that was included inside the
+     "#ifndef FALSE" condition by an earlier change (probably 7.8/18) has been
+     moved outside it again, because FALSE and TRUE are already defined in AIX,
+     but BOOL is not.
+.  The pcre_config() function was treating the PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT and
+     PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT_RETURSION values as ints, when they should be long ints.
+.  The pcregrep documentation said spaces were inserted as well as colons (or
+     hyphens) following file names and line numbers when outputting matching
+     lines. This is not true; no spaces are inserted. I have also clarified the
+     wording for the --colour (or --color) option.
+ Version 7.8 05-Sep-08
+ ---------------------
+.  Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad
+     Muncher (http://www.admuncher.com/) by Peter Kankowski. This uses a two-
+     stage table and inline lookup instead of a function, giving speed ups of 2
+     to 5 times on some simple patterns that I tested. Permission was given to
+     distribute the MultiStage2.py script that generates the tables (it's not in
+     the tarball, but is in the Subversion repository).
+.  Updated the Unicode datatables to Unicode 5.1.0. This adds yet more
+     scripts.
+.  Change 12 for 7.7 introduced a bug in pcre_study() when a pattern contained
+     a group with a zero qualifier. The result of the study could be incorrect,
+     or the function might crash, depending on the pattern.
+.  Caseless matching was not working for non-ASCII characters in back
+     references. For example, /(\x{de})\1/8i was not matching \x{de}\x{fe}.
+     It now works when Unicode Property Support is available.
+.  In pcretest, an escape such as \x{de} in the data was always generating
+     a UTF-8 string, even in non-UTF-8 mode. Now it generates a single byte in
+     non-UTF-8 mode. If the value is greater than 255, it gives a warning about
+     truncation.
+.  Minor bugfix in pcrecpp.cc (change "" == ... to NULL == ...).
+.  Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two
+     pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.
+.  Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to
+     test 2 if it fails.
+.  Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions,
+     and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to
+     allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.
+. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from
+     the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.
+. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives
+     could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in
+     some environments:
+       printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest
+     This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371.
+. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately
+     after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and
+     pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was
+     no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified
+     pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer.
+. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_
+     exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode.
+. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and
+     the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its
+     first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching.
+. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example,
+     /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc".
+. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h.
+. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from
+     pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts.
+. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings.
+. Updated the Virtual Pascal + BCC files to compile the latest v7.7, as
+     supplied by Stefan Weber. I made a further small update for 7.8 because
+     there is a change of source arrangements: the pcre_searchfuncs.c module is
+     replaced by pcre_ucd.c.
+ Version 7.7 07-May-08
+ ---------------------
+.  Applied Craig's patch to sort out a long long problem: "If we can't convert
+     a string to a long long, pretend we don't even have a long long." This is
+     done by checking for the strtoq, strtoll, and _strtoi64 functions.
+.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to restore ABI compatibility with
+     pre-7.6 versions, which defined a global no_arg variable instead of putting
+     it in the RE class. (See also #8 below.)
+.  Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno
+     Lopes.
+.  Fixed two related pcregrep bugs involving -r with --include or --exclude:
+     (1) The include/exclude patterns were being applied to the whole pathnames
+         of files, instead of just to the final components.
+     (2) If there was more than one level of directory, the subdirectories were
+         skipped unless they satisfied the include/exclude conditions. This is
+         inconsistent with GNU grep (and could even be seen as contrary to the
+         pcregrep specification - which I improved to make it absolutely clear).
+         The action now is always to scan all levels of directory, and just
+         apply the include/exclude patterns to regular files.
+.  Added the --include_dir and --exclude_dir patterns to pcregrep, and used
+     --exclude_dir in the tests to avoid scanning .svn directories.
+.  Applied Craig's patch to the QuoteMeta function so that it escapes the
+     NUL character as backslash + 0 rather than backslash + NUL, because PCRE
+     doesn't support NULs in patterns.
+.  Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in
+     pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c.
+.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to fix a problem in OS X that was
+     caused by fix #2  above. (Subsequently also a second patch to fix the
+     first patch. And a third patch - this was a messy problem.)
+.  Applied Craig's patch to remove the use of push_back().
+. Applied Alan Lehotsky's patch to add REG_STARTEND support to the POSIX
+     matching function regexec().
+. Added support for the Oniguruma syntax \g<name>, \g<n>, \g'name', \g'n',
+     which, however, unlike Perl's \g{...}, are subroutine calls, not back
+     references. PCRE supports relative numbers with this syntax (I don't think
+     Oniguruma does).
+. Previously, a group with a zero repeat such as (...){0} was completely
+     omitted from the compiled regex. However, this means that if the group
+     was called as a subroutine from elsewhere in the pattern, things went wrong
+     (an internal error was given). Such groups are now left in the compiled
+     pattern, with a new opcode that causes them to be skipped at execution
+     time.
+. Added the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option. This makes the following changes
+     to the way PCRE behaves:
+     (a) A lone ] character is dis-allowed (Perl treats it as data).
+     (b) A back reference to an unmatched subpattern matches an empty string
+         (Perl fails the current match path).
+     (c) A data ] in a character class must be notated as \] because if the
+         first data character in a class is ], it defines an empty class. (In
+         Perl it is not possible to have an empty class.) The empty class []
+         never matches; it forces failure and is equivalent to (*FAIL) or (?!).
+         The negative empty class [^] matches any one character, independently
+         of the DOTALL setting.
+. A pattern such as /(?2)[]a()b](abc)/ which had a forward reference to a
+     non-existent subpattern following a character class starting with ']' and
+     containing () gave an internal compiling error instead of "reference to
+     non-existent subpattern". Fortunately, when the pattern did exist, the
+     compiled code was correct. (When scanning forwards to check for the
+     existencd of the subpattern, it was treating the data ']' as terminating
+     the class, so got the count wrong. When actually compiling, the reference
+     was subsequently set up correctly.)
+. The "always fail" assertion (?!) is optimzed to (*FAIL) by pcre_compile;
+     it was being rejected as not supported by pcre_dfa_exec(), even though
+     other assertions are supported. I have made pcre_dfa_exec() support
+     (*FAIL).
+. The implementation of 13c above involved the invention of a new opcode,
+     OP_ALLANY, which is like OP_ANY but doesn't check the /s flag. Since /s
+     cannot be changed at match time, I realized I could make a small
+     improvement to matching performance by compiling OP_ALLANY instead of
+     OP_ANY for "." when DOTALL was set, and then removing the runtime tests
+     on the OP_ANY path.
+. Compiling pcretest on Windows with readline support failed without the
+     following two fixes: (1) Make the unistd.h include conditional on
+     HAVE_UNISTD_H; (2) #define isatty and fileno as _isatty and _fileno.
+. Changed CMakeLists.txt and cmake/FindReadline.cmake to arrange for the
+     ncurses library to be included for pcretest when ReadLine support is
+     requested, but also to allow for it to be overridden. This patch came from
+     Daniel Bergstr�m.
+. There was a typo in the file ucpinternal.h where f0_rangeflag was defined
+     as 0x00f00000 instead of 0x00800000. Luckily, this would not have caused
+     any errors with the current Unicode tables. Thanks to Peter Kankowski for
+     spotting this.
+ Version 7.6 28-Jan-08
+ ---------------------
+.  A character class containing a very large number of characters with
+     codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course) caused a buffer
+     overflow.
+.  Patch to cut out the "long long" test in pcrecpp_unittest when
+     HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
+.  Applied Christian Ehrlicher's patch to update the CMake build files to
+     bring them up to date and include new features. This patch includes:
+     - Fixed PH's badly added libz and libbz2 support.
+     - Fixed a problem with static linking.
+     - Added pcredemo. [But later removed - see 7 below.]
+     - Fixed dftables problem and added an option.
+     - Added a number of HAVE_XXX tests, including HAVE_WINDOWS_H and
+         HAVE_LONG_LONG.
+     - Added readline support for pcretest.
+     - Added an listing of the option settings after cmake has run.
+.  A user submitted a patch to Makefile that makes it easy to create
+     "pcre.dll" under mingw when using Configure/Make. I added stuff to
+     Makefile.am that cause it to include this special target, without
+     affecting anything else. Note that the same mingw target plus all
+     the other distribution libraries and programs are now supported
+     when configuring with CMake (see 6 below) instead of with
+     Configure/Make.
+.  Applied Craig's patch that moves no_arg into the RE class in the C++ code.
+     This is an attempt to solve the reported problem "pcrecpp::no_arg is not
+     exported in the Windows port". It has not yet been confirmed that the patch
+     solves the problem, but it does no harm.
+.  Applied Sheri's patch to CMakeLists.txt to add NON_STANDARD_LIB_PREFIX and
+     NON_STANDARD_LIB_SUFFIX for dll names built with mingw when configured
+     with CMake, and also correct the comment about stack recursion.
+.  Remove the automatic building of pcredemo from the ./configure system and
+     from CMakeLists.txt. The whole idea of pcredemo.c is that it is an example
+     of a program that users should build themselves after PCRE is installed, so
+     building it automatically is not really right. What is more, it gave
+     trouble in some build environments.
+.  Further tidies to CMakeLists.txt from Sheri and Christian.
+ Version 7.5 10-Jan-08
  ---------------------
 .  Applied a patch from Craig: "This patch makes it possible to 'ignore'
      values in parens when parsing an RE using the C++ wrapper."
 .  Negative specials like \S did not work in character classes in UTF-8 mode.
      Characters greater than 255 were excluded from the class instead of being
      included.
 .  The same bug as (2) above applied to negated POSIX classes such as
      [:^space:].
 .  PCRECPP_STATIC was referenced in pcrecpp_internal.h, but nowhere was it
      defined or documented. It seems to have been a typo for PCRE_STATIC, so
      I have changed it.
 .  The construct (?&) was not diagnosed as a syntax error (it referenced the
      first named subpattern) and a construct such as (?&a) would reference the
      first named subpattern whose name started with "a" (in other words, the
-     length check was missing).
+     length check was missing). Both these problems are fixed. "Subpattern name
+     expected" is now given for (?&) (a zero-length name), and this patch also
+     makes it give the same error for \k'' (previously it complained that that
+     was a reference to a non-existent subpattern).
 .  The erroneous patterns (?+-a) and (?-+a) give different error messages;
      this is right because (?- can be followed by option settings as well as by
      digits. I have, however, made the messages clearer.
 .  Patterns such as (?(1)a|b) (a pattern that contains fewer subpatterns
      than the number used in the conditional) now cause a compile-time error.
      This is actually not compatible with Perl, which accepts such patterns, but
      treats the conditional as always being FALSE (as PCRE used to), but it
      seems to me that giving a diagnostic is better.
+.  Change "alphameric" to the more common word "alphanumeric" in comments
+     and messages.
+.  Fix two occurrences of "backslash" in comments that should have been
+     "backspace".
+. Remove two redundant lines of code that can never be obeyed (their function
+     was moved elsewhere).
+. The program that makes PCRE's Unicode character property table had a bug
+     which caused it to generate incorrect table entries for sequences of
+     characters that have the same character type, but are in different scripts.
+     It amalgamated them into a single range, with the script of the first of
+     them. In other words, some characters were in the wrong script. There were
+     thirteen such cases, affecting characters in the following ranges:
+       U+002b0 - U+002c1
+       U+0060c - U+0060d
+       U+0061e - U+00612
+       U+0064b - U+0065e
+       U+0074d - U+0076d
+       U+01800 - U+01805
+       U+01d00 - U+01d77
+       U+01d9b - U+01dbf
+       U+0200b - U+0200f
+       U+030fc - U+030fe
+       U+03260 - U+0327f
+       U+0fb46 - U+0fbb1
+       U+10450 - U+1049d
+. The -o option (show only the matching part of a line) for pcregrep was not
+     compatible with GNU grep in that, if there was more than one match in a
+     line, it showed only the first of them. It now behaves in the same way as
+     GNU grep.
+. If the -o and -v options were combined for pcregrep, it printed a blank
+     line for every non-matching line. GNU grep prints nothing, and pcregrep now
+     does the same. The return code can be used to tell if there were any
+     non-matching lines.
+. Added --file-offsets and --line-offsets to pcregrep.
+. The pattern (?=something)(?R) was not being diagnosed as a potentially
+     infinitely looping recursion. The bug was that positive lookaheads were not
+     being skipped when checking for a possible empty match (negative lookaheads
+     and both kinds of lookbehind were skipped).
+. Fixed two typos in the Windows-only code in pcregrep.c, and moved the
+     inclusion of <windows.h> to before rather than after the definition of
+     INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES (patch from David Byron).
+. Specifying a possessive quantifier with a specific limit for a Unicode
+     character property caused pcre_compile() to compile bad code, which led at
+     runtime to PCRE_ERROR_INTERNAL (-14). Examples of patterns that caused this
+     are: /\p{Zl}{2,3}+/8 and /\p{Cc}{2}+/8. It was the possessive "+" that
+     caused the error; without that there was no problem.
+. Added --enable-pcregrep-libz and --enable-pcregrep-libbz2.
+. Added --enable-pcretest-libreadline.
+. In pcrecpp.cc, the variable 'count' was incremented twice in
+     RE::GlobalReplace(). As a result, the number of replacements returned was
+     double what it should be. I removed one of the increments, but Craig sent a
+     later patch that removed the other one (the right fix) and added unit tests
+     that check the return values (which was not done before).
+. Several CMake things:
+     (1) Arranged that, when cmake is used on Unix, the libraries end up with
+         the names libpcre and libpcreposix, not just pcre and pcreposix.
+     (2) The above change means that pcretest and pcregrep are now correctly
+         linked with the newly-built libraries, not previously installed ones.
+     (3) Added PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBREADLINE, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBZ, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBBZ2.
+. In UTF-8 mode, with newline set to "any", a pattern such as .*a.*=.b.*
+     crashed when matching a string such as a\x{2029}b (note that \x{2029} is a
+     UTF-8 newline character). The key issue is that the pattern starts .*;
+     this means that the match must be either at the beginning, or after a
+     newline. The bug was in the code for advancing after a failed match and
+     checking that the new position followed a newline. It was not taking
+     account of UTF-8 characters correctly.
+. PCRE was behaving differently from Perl in the way it recognized POSIX
+     character classes. PCRE was not treating the sequence [:...:] as a
+     character class unless the ... were all letters. Perl, however, seems to
+     allow any characters between [: and :], though of course it rejects as
+     unknown any "names" that contain non-letters, because all the known class
+     names consist only of letters. Thus, Perl gives an error for [[:1234:]],
+     for example, whereas PCRE did not - it did not recognize a POSIX character
+     class. This seemed a bit dangerous, so the code has been changed to be
+     closer to Perl. The behaviour is not identical to Perl, because PCRE will
+     diagnose an unknown class for, for example, [[:l\ower:]] where Perl will
+     treat it as [[:lower:]]. However, PCRE does now give "unknown" errors where
+     Perl does, and where it didn't before.
+. Rewrite so as to remove the single use of %n from pcregrep because in some
+     Windows environments %n is disabled by default.
  Version 7.4 21-Sep-07
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