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| author | Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-07-29 23:59:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-07-29 23:59:35 +0000 |
| commit | d2090a40d02b9d93d1d8ac3d0f7419f9b3302ed7 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fe654c12ca95f7b53a0c0805b81c3f1f89bd4de /UPDATING | |
| parent | 0f70a1489d0701e4c1840d13d4ed89e7bf624eac (diff) | |
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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.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=363681
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diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index ee69605d9f288..be57064412b7d 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -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 |