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24
25This file lists all bug fixes, changes, etc., made since the
26second edition of the AWK book was published in September 2023.
27
28Jun 23, 2024
29	Fix signal for system-status test. Thanks to Tim van der Molen.
30	Rewrite if-else chain as switch. Thanks to Andrew Sukach.
31
32May 27, 2024
33	Spelling fixes and removal of unneeded prototypes and extern.
34	Thanks to Jonathan Gray.
35
36May 4, 2024
37	Fixed a use-after-free bug with ARGV for "delete ARGV".
38	Also ENVtab is no longer global. Thanks to Benjamin Sturz
39	for spotting the ARGV issue and	Todd Miller for the fix.
40
41May 3, 2024:
42	Remove warnings when compiling with g++. Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
43
44Apr 22, 2024:
45	Fixed regex engine gototab reallocation issue that was
46	Introduced during the Nov 24 rewrite. Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
47	Fixed a scan bug in split in the case the separator is a single
48	character. Thanks to Oguz Ismail for spotting the issue.
49
50Mar 10, 2024:
51	Fixed use-after-free bug in fnematch due to adjbuf invalidating
52	the pointers to buf. Thanks to github user caffe3 for spotting
53	the issue and providing a fix, and to Miguel Pineiro Jr.
54	for the alternative fix.
55	MAX_UTF_BYTES in fnematch has been replaced with awk_mb_cur_max.
56	thanks to Miguel Pineiro Jr.
57
58Jan 22, 2024:
59	Restore the ability to compile with g++. Thanks to
60	Arnold Robbins.
61
62Dec 24, 2023:
63	Matchop dereference after free problem fix when the first
64	argument is a function call. Thanks to Oguz Ismail Uysal.
65	Fix inconsistent handling of --csv and FS set in the
66	command line. Thanks to Wilbert van der Poel.
67	Casting changes to int for is* functions.
68
69Nov 27, 2023:
70	Fix exit status of system on MacOS. Update to REGRESS.
71	Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
72	Fix inconsistent handling of -F and --csv, and loss of csv
73	mode when FS is set.
74
75Nov 24, 2023:
76        Fix issue #199: gototab improvements to dynamically resize the
77        table, qsort and bsearch to improve the lookup speed as the
78        table gets larger for multibyte input. Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
79
80Nov 23, 2023:
81	Fix Issue #169, related to escape sequences in strings.
82	Thanks to Github user rajeevvp.
83	Fix Issue #147, reported by Github user drawkula, and fixed
84	by Miguel Pineiro Jr.
85
86Nov 20, 2023:
87	Rewrite of fnematch to fix a number of issues, including
88	extraneous output, out-of-bounds access, number of bytes
89	to push back after a failed match etc.
90	Thanks to Miguel Pineiro Jr.
91
92Nov 15, 2023:
93	Man page edit, regression test fixes. Thanks to Arnold Robbins
94	Consolidation of sub and gsub into dosub, removing duplicate
95	code. Thanks to Miguel Pineiro Jr.
96	gcc replaced with cc everywhere.
97
98Oct 30, 2023:
99	Multiple fixes and a minor code cleanup.
100	Disabled utf-8 for non-multibyte locales, such as C or POSIX.
101	Fixed a bad char * cast that causes incorrect results on big-endian
102	systems. Also fixed an out-of-bounds read for empty CCL.
103	Fixed a buffer overflow in substr with utf-8 strings.
104	Many thanks to Todd C Miller.
105
106Sep 24, 2023:
107	fnematch and getrune have been overhauled to solve issues around
108	unicode FS and RS. Also fixed gsub null match issue with unicode.
109	Big thanks to Arnold Robbins.
110
111Sep 12, 2023:
112	Fixed a length error in u8_byte2char that set RSTART to
113	incorrect (cannot happen) value for EOL match(str, /$/).
114
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117
118[This entry is a summary, not a precise list of changes.]
119
120	Added --csv option to enable processing of comma-separated
121	values inputs.  When --csv is enabled, fields are separated
122	by commas, fields may be quoted with " double quotes, fields
123	may contain embedded newlines.
124
125	If no explicit separator argument is provided, split() uses
126	the setting of --csv to determine how fields are split.
127
128	Strings may now contain UTF-8 code points (not necessarily
129	characters).  Functions that operate on characters, like
130	length, substr, index, match, etc., use UTF-8, so the length
131	of a string of 3 emojis is 3, not 12 as it would be if bytes
132	were counted.
133
134	Regular expressions are processed as UTF-8.
135
136	Unicode literals can be written as \u followed by one
137	to eight hexadecimal digits.  These may appear in strings and
138	regular expressions.
139