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News about PCRE releases |
News about PCRE releases |
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Release 7.0 23-Nov-06 |
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This release has a new major number because there have been some internal |
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upheavals to facilitate the addition of new optimizations and other facilities, |
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and to make subsequent maintenance and extension easier. Compilation is likely |
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to be a bit slower, but there should be no major effect on runtime performance. |
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Previously compiled patterns are NOT upwards compatible with this release. If |
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you have saved compiled patterns from a previous release, you will have to |
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re-compile them. Important changes that are visible to users are: |
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1. The Unicode property tables have been updated to Unicode 5.0.0, which adds |
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some more scripts. |
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2. The option PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY causes PCRE to recognize any Unicode newline |
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sequence as a newline. |
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3. The \R escape matches a single Unicode newline sequence as a single unit. |
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4. New features that will appear in Perl 5.10 are now in PCRE. These include |
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alternative Perl syntax for named parentheses, and Perl syntax for |
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recursion. |
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5. The C++ wrapper interface has been extended by the addition of a |
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QuoteMeta function and the ability to allow copy construction and |
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assignment. |
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For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. |
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Release 6.7 04-Jul-06 |
Release 6.7 04-Jul-06 |
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