Author: kevans
Date: Wed Jul 29 23:59:35 2020
New Revision: 363681
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363681
Log:
UPDATING / RELNOTES: Document new regcomp(3) behavior
This is a breaking change that had a not-insignificant impact in ports, it
is worth documenting it well.
Modified:
head/RELNOTES
head/UPDATING
Modified: head/RELNOTES
==============================================================================
--- head/RELNOTES Wed Jul 29 23:24:32 2020 (r363680)
+++ head/RELNOTES Wed Jul 29 23:59:35 2020 (r363681)
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
+r363679:
+ Applications using regex(3), e.g. sed/grep, will no longer accept
+ redundant escapes for most ordinary characters.
+
r363253:
SCTP support has been removed from GENERIC kernel configurations.
The SCTP stack is now built as sctp.ko and can be dynamically loaded.
Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING Wed Jul 29 23:24:32 2020 (r363680)
+++ head/UPDATING Wed Jul 29 23:59:35 2020 (r363681)
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20200729:
+ r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably,
+ extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be
+ accepted. An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in
+ ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to
+ continue to function.
+
20200627:
A new implementation of bc and dc has been imorted in r362681. This
implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc
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