sed-4.7

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Now version 4,7

• Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2018-12-20) [stable]

Bug fixes

Some uses of \b in the C locale and with the DFA matcher would fail, e.g., the following would mistakenly print "123-x" instead of "123":

echo 123-x|LC_ALL=C sed 's/.\bx'

Using a multibyte locale or certain regexp constructs (some ranges, backreferences) would avoid the bug. [bug introduced in sed 4.6]

[Douglas R. Reno]

* Noteworthy changes in release 4.6 (2018-12-19) [stable]

** Improvements

  sed now prints a clear error message when r/R/w/W (and s///w) commands
  are missing a filename. Previously, w/W commands would fail with confusing
  error message, while r/R would be a silent no-op.

  sed now uses fully-buffered output (instead of line-buffered) when
  writing to files. This should noticeably improve performance of "sed -i"
  and other write commands.
  Buffering can be disabled (as before) with "sed -u".

  sed in non-cygwin windows environments (e.g. mingw) now properly handles
  '\n' newlines in -b/--binary mode.

** Bug fixes

  sed no longer accesses invalid memory (heap overflow) when given invalid
  backreferences in 's' command [bug#32082, present at least since sed-4.0.6].

  sed no longer adds extraneous NUL when given s/$//n command.
  [related to bug#32271, present since sed-4.0.7]

  sed no longer accesses invalid memory (heap overflow) with s/$//n regexes.
  [bug#32271, present since sed-4.3].

** New Features

  New option, --debug: print the input sed script in canonical form
  and annotate program execution.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at r11495