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grep-2.24 released [stable]

Item posted by Jim Meyering <meyering> on Fri 11 Mar 2016 06:01:22 AM UTC.

This is to announce grep-2.24, a stable bug-fix-only release.
This release, so soon after 2.23, was prompted by the discovery
of two bugs related to the --null-data (-z) option.
These bugs were introduced in 2010 and 2002 respectively.

There have been 8 commits by 2 people in the 5 weeks since 2.23.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

Jim Meyering (7)
Paul Eggert (1)

Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers]
==================================================================

Here is the GNU grep home page:
http://gnu.org/s/grep/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.24
or run this command from a git-cloned grep directory:
git shortlog v2.23..v2.24

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.24.tar.xz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.24.tar.xz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.24.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.24.tar.xz.sig

[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify grep-2.24.tar.xz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69.147-5ad35
Automake 1.99a
Gnulib v0.1-697-gcd6a452

==================================================================
NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 2.24 (2016-03-10) [stable]

** Bug fixes

grep -z would match strings it should not. To trigger the bug, you'd
have to use a regular expression including an anchor (^ or $) and a
feature like a range or a backreference, causing grep to forego its DFA
matcher and resort to using re_search. With a multibyte locale, that
matcher could mistakenly match a string containing a newline.
For example, this command:
printf 'a\nb\0' | LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 grep -z '^[a-b]*b'
would mistakenly match and print all four input bytes. After the fix,
there is no match, as expected.
[bug introduced in grep-2.7]

grep -Pz now diagnoses attempts to use patterns containing ^ and $,
instead of mishandling these patterns. This problem seems to be
inherent to the PCRE API; removing this limitation is on PCRE's
maint/README wish list. Patterns can continue to match literal ^
and $ by escaping them with \ (now needed even inside [...]).
[bug introduced in grep-2.5]