** Bug fixes
grep -i, in a multi-byte locale, when matching a line containing a character
like the UTF-8 Turkish I-with-dot (U+0130) (whose lower-case representation
occupies fewer bytes), would print an incomplete output line.
Similarly, with a matched line containing a character (e.g., the Latin
capital I in a Turkish UTF-8 locale), where the lower-case representation
occupies more bytes, grep could print garbage.
[bug introduced in grep-2.6]
--include and --exclude can again be combined, and again apply to
the command line, e.g., "grep --include='*.[ch]' --exclude='system.h'
PATTERN *" again reads all *.c and *.h files except for system.h.
[bug introduced in grep-2.6]
** New features
'grep' without -z now treats a sparse file as binary, if it can
easily determine that the file is sparse.
** Dropped features
Bootstrapping with Makefile.boot has been broken since grep 2.6,
and was removed.
Main changes are move to GPLv3 and several updated translations.
Also some bugfixes (at least the ones we had patched in pkgsrc).
Sorry, not more specific because NEWS isn't properly maintained.