From: Will Estes Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:14:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Dated, described flex release 2.6.0 X-Git-Tag: v2.6.0~1 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d34b6160af8096ee01911c65cd761d38964e4fe8;p=flex Dated, described flex release 2.6.0 --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fc3aecc..58da291 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,7 +3,41 @@ changes between releases of flex. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. -* version 2.6.0rc1 +* version 2.6.0 released 2015-11-17 + +** User Visible Changes + +*** C++ scanners now use references instead of pointers. See the manual for details. + +*** A number of compiler warnings were addressed, so flex generated scanners should be quieter under compiler warning scenarios. + +*** Allow error reporting routines to accept varying number of arguments + +*** Removed deprecated 'register' storage class specifier + +*** Changeed output formats from octal to hexadecimal + +*** check limits before using array index cclp; resolves sf-166 + +*** Suppress clang warning about empty @param paragraph; resolves sf#158 + +*** Fixed malloc/realloc replacement, resolves sf bug#151. + +*** Adjusted buffer sizes on ia64. + +*** various documentation and code clean up fixes: resolves sf bugs #167, #168, among other patches. + +** Flex Internals + +*** flex is now organized into subdirectories. This keeps the tree neater at the top level and puts like things near each other and unlike things away from each other. + +*** The test suite has been reorganized and is now run with the parallel test suite harness from automake. + +*** Cleaned up the automake parts of the build system to better reflect what automake does on its own. Also added a call to libtoolize in autogen.sh because autoreconf gets confused without a prior run of libtoolize. + +*** po/Makefile now includes a rule to fetch the latest translations from the translation project. "make -f po/Makefile getpo" from the top level of the flex tree will fetch the files. + +*** New da translation from the translation project * flex version 2.5.39 released 2014-03-26