git: 59b83c47e215 - main - awk: Note awk upgrades.

[Warner Losh]

The branch main has been updated by imp:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=59b83c47e21520954178204d15ea3ba5df28a894

commit 59b83c47e21520954178204d15ea3ba5df28a894
Author:     Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-07-29 21:41:16 +0000
Commit:     Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-07-29 21:45:25 +0000

    awk: Note awk upgrades.
    
    Note the high level differences with the latest one true awk
    import. This list may grow as we learn more troublesome areas.
    
    Updated description of the format fo the file to match the file.
    
    I'll likely merge this change (and any followups) by direct commit to
    stable/13 and stable/12 in a couple of weeks.
    
    Sponsored by:           Netflix
---
 RELNOTES | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 173878640975..5f8c75081cc0 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -5,11 +5,25 @@ users of binary FreeBSD releases.  Each entry should describe the change in no
 more than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an
 interested user can find more information.  Entries should wrap after 80
 columns.  Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line,
-specified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a
-newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
+specified as a comma separated list and/or range.  Entries should be separated
+by a newline.
 
 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+various
+	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
+	(20210215). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
+	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
+		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
+		o Various bugs fixed
+		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
+
+	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
+	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
+	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
+	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
+	behavior.
+
 ee29e6f31111
 	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
 	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS