GNU sed 4.0b (development branch release candidate)

[Paolo Bonzini]

A new version of sed, the GNU stream editor, has been published at

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.0b.tar.gz

sed 4.1, of which sed 4.0b is the second beta release, features much better
internationalization.  8-bit character sets, as well as stateful and
stateless multi-byte character sets, are handled much better than in other
implementations of sed; still, there no performance penalties if you are
using 8-bit character sets such as ISO-8859.

This version also includes the latest version of the GNU regex matcher,
which includes several performance improvements and bugfixes; this will be
backported to the 4.0 stable branch soon.  Thanks to Jakub Jelinek for
working on these improvements and to Ulrich Drepper for accepting my work in
this area.

You are encouraged to try out this version of sed and exercise it through
large configure scripts, especially if you work in a multi-byte locale.  Bug
reports are welcome at address@hidden; please include the word "sed"
in the message subject, and try to be as specific as possible, following the
bug reporting instructions in the tarball.  You are also encouraged to try
compiling sed on as many architectures as possible.

Version 4.1 will be published as soon as enough success reports are
received, probably in Q1 2004.

Regards,

Paolo Bonzini