an old outstanding update someone found and flagged. other distros(Debian, Gentoo, Frugal) also use 2.5.9 as their last stable release.
-Andy Changes in versions 2.5.8 and 2.5.9: bug fixes only. Changes in version 2.5.7: * patch -D now outputs preprocessor lines without comments, as required by POSIX 1003.1-2001. Changes in version 2.5.6: * File names in context patches may now contain spaces, so long as the context patch headers use a tab to separate the file name from the time stamp. * Perforce is now supported. * Patch lines beginning with "#" are comments and are ignored. Changes in version 2.5.5: * The bug reporting address is now <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
