Release 8.34 15-December-2013
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As well as fixing the inevitable bugs, performance has been improved by
refactoring and extending the amount of "auto-possessification" that PCRE does.
Other notable changes:
. Implemented PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY, which yields 1 if the pattern can match
an empty string. If it can, pcretest shows this in its information output.
. A back reference to a named subpattern when there is more than one of the
same name now checks them in the order in which they appear in the pattern.
The first one that is set is used for the reference. Previously only the
first one was inspected. This change makes PCRE more compatible with Perl.
. Unicode character properties were updated from Unicode 6.3.0.
. The character VT has been added to the set of characters that match \s and
are generally treated as white space, following this same change in Perl
5.18. There is now no difference between "Perl space" and "POSIX space".
. Perl has changed its handling of \8 and \9. If there is no previously
encountered capturing group of those numbers, they are treated as the
literal characters 8 and 9 instead of a binary zero followed by the
literals. PCRE now does the same.
. Following Perl, added \o{} to specify codepoints in octal, making it
possible to specify values greater than 0777 and also making them
unambiguous.
. In UCP mode, \s was not matching two of the characters that Perl matches,
namely NEL (U+0085) and MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR (U+180E), though they
were matched by \h.
. Add JIT support for the 64 bit TileGX architecture.
. Upgraded the handling of the POSIX classes [:graph:], [:print:], and
[:punct:] when PCRE_UCP is set so as to include the same characters as Perl
does in Unicode mode.
. Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this
change also in PCRE.
. Added support for [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] as used in the BSD POSIX library to
mean "start of word" and "end of word", respectively, as a transition aid.
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