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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2016-a19e4f7576
2016-01-28 17:43:27.786853
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Name : pcre2
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 10.21
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.pcre.org/
Summary : Perl-compatible regular expression library
Description :
PCRE2 is a re-working of the original PCRE (Perl-compatible regular
expression) library to provide an entirely new API.
PCRE2 is written in C, and it has its own API. There are three sets of
functions, one for the 8-bit library, which processes strings of bytes, one
for the 16-bit library, which processes strings of 16-bit values, and one for
the 32-bit library, which processes strings of 32-bit values. There are no C++
wrappers.
The distribution does contain a set of C wrapper functions for the 8-bit
library that are based on the POSIX regular expression API (see the pcre2posix
man page). These can be found in a library called libpcre2posix. Note that
this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE2; the regular expressions
themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The POSIX API is
restricted, and does not give full access to all of PCRE2's facilities.
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Update Information:
This release brings various functional and security fixes. It also adds new
features, namely Unicode 8 support. See NEWS file for more details. ---- This
new package provides next-generation reimplmenation of Perl-Compatible Regular
Expression library.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1194781 - Review Request: pcre2 - Perl-compatible regular expression library
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194781
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update pcre2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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