Package: gawk Severity: wishlist FYI, it would be nice to have gawk 5.4.1 packaged.
/Simon Aharon Robbins <[email protected]> writes: > Greetings all. > > This note announces the next release of GNU Awk: version 5.4.1. > > The following files may be retrieved via HTTPS from > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 6706990 Jul 9 19:49 gawk-5.4.1.tar.gz > -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3644362 Jul 9 19:49 gawk-5.4.1.tar.lz > -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3838416 Jul 9 19:49 gawk-5.4.1.tar.xz > > This is a patch release. The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended > below. Because the FSF's address was updated, too many files changed to > allow for preparing a diff file from the previous release. > > The online manuals will be updated soon. > > The usual GNU build incantation should be used: > > tar -xpvzf gawk-5.4.1.tar.gz > cd gawk-5.4.1 > ./configure && make && make check > > Please use the gawkbug script to report bugs. If it doesn't > work for you, then send email to [email protected]. > > Enjoy! > > Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers) > [email protected] > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Copyright (C) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 > Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, > are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright > notice and this notice are preserved. > > Changes from 5.4.0 to 5.4.1 > --------------------------- > > 1. A performance problem in PMA with backing store files 1G or more in > size has been fixed, by disabling assertions in support/pma.c. > > 2. A bug in gensub() when using MinRX has been fixed. > > 3. All files that referred to the FSF's old address have been revised. > > 4. After careful review of the POSIX standard and how MinRX handles > matching when ignoring case, it was decided that the way it worked > was already correct, even for cases where one character can have > multiple alternative case variants. README_d/README.matchers has > been updated, and several new tests for this issue have been added > to the test suite. > > 5. Unary plus and minus now force their operands to be numeric. > > 6. The intdiv extension has been in the distribution for several years, > but was lacking both a man page and a description in the manual. > These flaws have been corrected. > > 7. The Georgian translation (ka.po) was accidentally disabled. It's now > enabled, and also updated. > > 8. Parse time division by zero is no longer a fatal error, but rather > a lint warning. Division by zero at runtime remains fatal. > > 9. Some subtle issues with respect to formatting numeric fields have > been fixed. > > 10. The manual now states that contributions of code created by LLMs won't > be accepted. > > 11. As usual, a number of small bugs have been fixed; see the ChangeLog > for the details. > >
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