Gawk 4.1.3 released

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings all.

This note announces the next release of GNU Awk: version 4.1.3.

The following files may be retrieved from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk,
or via HTTP from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 4407218 May 19 16:44 gawk-4.1.3.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold     473 May 20 18:12 gawk-4.1.3.tar.gz.sig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2229755 May 19 16:44 gawk-4.1.3.tar.lz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold     473 May 20 18:15 gawk-4.1.3.tar.lz.sig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2311268 May 19 16:44 gawk-4.1.3.tar.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold     473 May 20 18:14 gawk-4.1.3.tar.xz.sig

This is a bug fix release.  The relevant part of the NEWS file is
appended below.

This release comes soon after 4.1.2 since there was a severe bug
in how regexps were parsed. Thanks to everyone who reported problems
and helped with solutions.

Differences from gawk 4.1.2 are available:

-rw-r--r-- 1 arnold arnold   42147 May 20 18:07 gawk-4.1.2-4.1.3.diff.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold     473 May 20 18:12 gawk-4.1.2-4.1.3.diff.gz.sig

The .diff file is a shell script that should be executed in the gawk-4.1.2
source directory.

The usual GNU build incantation should be used:

        tar -xpvzf gawk-4.1.3.tar.gz
        cd gawk-4.1.3
        ./configure && make && make check

The documentation on the GNU web site has will be updated in the next
week or two.

Bug reports should be sent to address@hidden

Enjoy!

Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers)
address@hidden
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Changes from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3
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1. Regexp parsing with extra brackets should now be working again. There
   are several new tests to keep this stuff on track.

2. Updated to latest config.guess and config.sub.

3. A (small) number of bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog.