Fedora 15 Update: grep-2.9-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-8557
2011-06-24 02:44:17
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Name        : grep
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.9
Release     : 1.fc15
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 that fixes several bugs. It is faster on regular expressions that match multibyte characters in brackets (such as '[áéíóú]') and no longer aborts when PCRE's backtracking limit is exceeded. For original announcement with list of fixed bugs see: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6851
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 22 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.9-1
- New version: grep-2.9
- Removed dfa-buffer-overrun-fix patch
* Mon Jun 20 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.8-4
- dfa: don't overrun a malloc'd buffer for certain regexps
  (patch dfa-buffer-overrun-fix)
  Resolves: rhbz#713328
* Mon May 16 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.8-3
- Added coloring aliases to csh script as well
* Mon May 16 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.8-2
- Added coloring to egrep and fgrep
  Resolves: rhbz#697895
* Mon May 16 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.8-1
- New version: grep-2.8
  Resolves: rhbz#704710
- Removed const-range-exp patch (upstreamed)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #645320 - [abrt] grep-2.7-1.fc14.1: raise: Process /bin/grep was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645320
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update grep' at the command line.
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