5.231. pcre

Bug Fixes

BZ#756105

Prior to this update, matching patterns with repeated forward reference failed to match if the first character was not repeated at the start of the matching text. This update modifies the matching algorithm not to expect the first character again. Now, patterns with repeated forward references match as expected.

BZ#759475

Prior to this update, case-less patterns in UTF-8 mode did not match characters at the end of input text with encoding length that was shorter than the encoding length of character in the pattern, for example "/ⱥ/8i".This update modifies the pcre library to count the length of matched characters correctly. Now, case-less patterns match characters with different encoding length correctly even at the end of an input string.

BZ#799003

Prior to this update, manual pages for the pcre library contained misprints. This update modifies the manual pages.

BZ#842000

Prior to this update, applications that were compiled with the libpcrecpp library from the pcre version 6 could not been executed against libpcrecpp library from the pcre version 7 because the application binary interface (ABI) was mismatched. This update adds the compat RE::Init() function for the pcre version 6 to the pcre version 7 libpcrecpp library. Applications that were compiled on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and use the RE::Init function can now be executed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

BZ#613690

Prior to this update, the PCRE license file was missing from the pcre-static subpackage. This update adds the license file.

BZ#676636

Prior to this update, the pcretest(1) manual page contained various misprints. This update corrects these misprints.

BZ#676643

Prior to this update, the pcregrep(1) manual page contained various misprints. This update corrects these misprints.