Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> writes: > We have uploaded the pretest for the next minor, bug-fix release of > Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.2.90.tar.xz > > As a bug-fix release, changes since version 7.0.2 are minimal so to reduce > the likelihood of inadvertent breakages. > > Here are a list of the changes: > > * texi2any > . fix performance regression when Perl binary extension (XS) modules > are not being used (e.g. with TEXINFO_XS=omit) > > * info > . further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII to avoid text > disappearing from nodes > . avoid possible freeze at start of a file with `-v nodeline=pointers' > > This pretest is made to allow further testing before an official > release and to hopefully discover any problems before use by a larger > audience. Please report any issues to <bug-texinfo@gnu.org>. > > It is likely that this will be released as Texinfo 7.0.3 in a few days' > time if there are no further issues.
Tested and OK on: hppa, ia64, sparc64, ppc64be, ppc64le, s390, s390x. I'd like to say thanks Gavin again for this stable branch initiative for texi, it's been quite helpful for us as a distribution in Gentoo. best, sam
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