Fedora 11 Update: grep-2.6.3-1.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-6351
2010-04-10 08:52:36
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Name        : grep
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 2.6.3
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/
Summary     : Pattern matching utilities
Description :
The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through
textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then
prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep.

GNU grep is needed by many scripts, so it shall be installed on every system.

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Update Information:

This is new version of grep with many bug fixes, UTF-8/multibyte matching
improvements and speedups (compared to 2.5* versions). It also fix some bugs
presented in the recent 2.6 release, including the Bug 579544. For more
information see: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6254
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Apr  4 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1
- New version: grep-2.6.3
- make check is not silent now
* Fri Mar 26 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.6.1-1
- New version: grep-2.6.1
- Dropped sigsegv patch (integrated upstream)
* Tue Mar 23 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.6-1
- New version: grep-2.6
- Added sigsegv patch (after release patch from upstream)
- Dropped obsoleted patches: fedora-tests, pcrewrap, case, egf-speedup,
  bz460641, utf8, dfa-optional, w
* Fri Mar  5 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.5.4-2
- Added w patch to fix -w switch behaviour broken by dfa-optional patch
* Wed Feb 10 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.5.4-1
- New version: grep-2.5.4 (#502931)
- Fixed typos in %description
- Updated utf-8 patch
- Added dfa-optional patch (#538423)
* Tue Aug 11 2009 Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> 2.5.3-6
- Silence possible scriptlets errors
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.5.3-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #515047 - grep ......... large-file.txt is Very slow with en_US.UTF-8
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515047
  [ 2 ] Bug #194471 - grep --ignore-case is very slow in UTF-8
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=194471
  [ 3 ] Bug #481765 - grep-mem-exhausted.patch introduces regressions
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481765
  [ 4 ] Bug #579544 - [abrt] crash in grep-2.6.1-1.fc12: Process /bin/grep was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579544
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update grep' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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