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GNU patch version 2.7 released
Item posted by Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen> on Wed 12 Sep 2012 02:18:14 PM UTC.
I am pleased to announce that version 2.7 of GNU patch has been released. The following significant changes have happened since the last stable release in December 2009:
- Support for most features of the "diff --git" format, including renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs. Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them.
- Support for double-quoted filenames: when a filename starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are recognized.
- Ignore destination file names that are absolute or that contain a component of "..". This addresses CVE-2010-4651.
- Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous versions of patch were replacing the symlink with a regular file.)
- When trying to modify a read-only file, warn about the potential problem by default. The --read-only command line option allows to change this behavior.
- Files to be deleted are deleted once the entire input has been processed, not immediately. This fixes a bug with numbered backup files.
- When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of assuming the local time zone (--set-date) or Universal Coordinated Time (--set-utc).
- Support for nanosecond precision timestamps.
- Patch no longer gets a failed assertion for certain mangled patches.
- Many portability and bug fixes.
Please report bugs or suggestions on the <bug-patch@gnu.org> mailing list, or in the project's bug tracker on Savannah:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch
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