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sed-4.4 released [stable]
Item posted by Jim Meyering <meyering> on Sat 04 Feb 2017 01:52:05 AM UTC.
This is to announce sed-4.4, a stable release.
There have been 24 commits by 4 people in the 5 weeks since 4.3.
There has been one important bug fix:
sed could segfault when invoked with specific combination of newlines
in the input and regex pattern. [Bug introduced in sed-4.3]
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Assaf Gordon (10)
Jim Meyering (12)
Norihiro Tanaka (1)
Vagelis Prokopiou (1)
Jim [on behalf of the sed maintainers]
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Here is the GNU sed home page:
http://gnu.org/s/sed/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=sed.git;a=shortlog;h=v4.4
or run this command from a git-cloned sed directory:
git shortlog v4.3..v4.4
To summarize the 70 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned sed directory:
git checkout v4.4
git submodule summary v4.3
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Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.4.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.4.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/sed/sed-4.4.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/sed/sed-4.4.tar.xz.sig
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify sed-4.4.tar.xz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69.183-96821
Automake 1.99a
Gnulib v0.1-1146-gb6acb8d
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