I am pleased to announce the release of GNU patch 2.8.
The project page is at https://savannah. ... rg/projects/patch
The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirr ... gnu.org/patch/
The sha256sum checksums are:
308a4983ff324521b9b21310bfc2398ca861798f02307c79eb99bb0e0d2bf980 patch-2.8.tar.gz
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I am pleased to announce that version 2.7 of GNU patch has been released. The following significant changes have happened since the last stable release in December 2009:
I am pleased to announce that there is progress towards the next stable release of GNU patch. This is a call for testing so that things will work as expected, on as many platforms as possible.
The upcoming release will include several new features:
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The code should be feature complete for the next stable release with only a few minor bugfixes left in the queue. This is your chance to report more bugs that still need to be addressed. Please expect the next stable release to happen in about a month's time. [...]
The purpose of this alpha release is to allow people to test changes which will eventually end up in the next stable release.
The following user visible changes have been made:
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