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:
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
I am pleased to announce that there is progress towards the next stable release of GNU patch. This is a call for testing so that things will work as expected, on as many platforms as possible.
The upcoming release will include several new features:
Behind the scenes, some infrastructure changes have happened as well: the project now uses GNU Automake, and the previous, static copy of the Gnulib library has been replaced by a git submodule.
The project home with the development repository, bug tracker, and bug-patch@gnu.org mailing list archive is located at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch
Development snapshots will be made available on:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/
Previous stable releases are available at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/
Please send bug reports or suggestions to <bug-patch@gnu.org>.
The code should be feature complete for the next stable release with only a few minor bugfixes left in the queue. This is your chance to report more bugs that still need to be addressed. Please expect the next stable release to happen in about a month's time.
The following user visible changes have been made:
Please see the project's bug tracker for a list of known issues before reporting those things again on the mailing list. (Postponed bugs are not going to be addressed in the next stable release.)
The purpose of this alpha release is to allow people to test changes which will eventually end up in the next stable release.
The following user visible changes have been made:
More fixes and improvements are pending. Please see the project's bug tracker for a (so far incomplete) list of known issues before reporting those things again on the mailing list.