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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2021-11-12 16:56:53 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2021-11-14 12:13:28 -0800
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maint: minor rewording and reindenting
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@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Changes in behavior
+ The -P option is now based on PCRE2 instead of the older PCRE,
+ thanks to code contributed by Carlo Arenas.
+
The egrep and fgrep commands, which have been deprecated since
release 2.5.3 (2007), now warn that they are obsolescent and should
be replaced by grep -E and grep -F.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 3.7 (2021-08-14) [stable]
** Changes in behavior