https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Gawk501
** Note that this has already landed in Rawhide: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/IEZZK7WHGF3FWFZNSCG7Z5ZZVUHVFZAF/#IEZZK7WHGF3FWFZNSCG7Z5ZZVUHVFZAF == Summary == New upstream major version of gawk has been released (4.2.1 -> 5.0.X). Among many changes, the version 5 introduced a namespaces, which may possible break some of the existing scripts. == Owner == * Name: [[User:jamartis| Jakub Martisko]] * Email: jamar...@redhat.com == Detailed Description == The new version of gawk has been released. The new version fixes a number of bugs, some of which were quite significant. Other notable changes include: * The regex routines have been replaced with those from GNULIB * Comment handling in the pretty-printer has been reworked almost completely from scratch. As a result, comments in many corner cases that were previously lost are now included in the formatted output. * Namespaces have been added. * Gawk now uses the locale settings for ignoring case in single byte locales, instead of hardwiring in Latin-1. <s>The introduction of namespaces may break some scripts written for gawk 4.2.1 due to different variable names.</s> (This is considered to be a bug by the upstream and there is a patch fixing this) == Benefit to Fedora == See above, the main benefit are several bug fixes. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Update the source archive of the gawk, drop no longer needed patches. * Other developers: Some modifications to existing gawk scripts may be needed. <s>Especially those, using the inplace gawk extension, where some of the variables have been renamed.</s> (This is considered to be a bug by the upstream and there is a patch fixing this) * Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8489 #8489] * Policies and guidelines: N/A * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) == Upgrade/compatibility impact == see above == How To Test == (not provided) == User Experience == (not provided) == Dependencies == dnf repoquery -q --releasever=rawhide --disablerepo='*' --qf='%{name}' --enablerepo=fedora-source --enablerepo=updates-source --enablerepo=updates-testing-source --archlist=src --whatrequires 'gawk' Judy Macaulay2 acl apt autoconf213 avr-binutils avr-gcc clucene cone crack dictd eterm geomview git glibc gnome-libs gnome-menus gpgme gpm gscan2pdf gyachi japanese-bitmap-fonts kde-filesystem kdelibs3 kernel kernel-tools krb5 lapack libAfterImage libassuan libecpg libgcrypt libgpg-error libguestfs libksba libpaper libphidget libpq libsvm libtpms libvirt linuxdoc-tools lm_sensors lxcfs maildrop mingw-clucene nco netcdf nss ocaml ocaml-calendar ocaml-csv ocaml-curl ocaml-curses ocaml-expat ocaml-extlib ocaml-findlib ocaml-libvirt ocaml-pcre ocaml-ssl ocaml-xml-light paperkey pcb postgresql powermanga quilt rbldnsd rpm rss-glx samba selinux-policy stow surfraw swig systemd topgit tzdata virt-top xblast xdg-utils xfsdump xschem xscreensaver yara zsh dnf repoquery -q --releasever=rawhide --disablerepo='*' --qf='%{name}' --enablerepo=fedora --enablerepo=updates --enablerepo=updates-testing --whatrequires 'gawk' R-core akmods am-utils authselect-libs autoconf213 autofs backupninja calamares centerim ceph-selinux check-checkmk checksec cloud-utils cloud-utils-growpart condor-vm-gahp copr-backend coreos-installer ctdb dhcp-client dkms docbook-utils dracut-kiwi-oem-dump e2fsprogs-devel esh execstack flamegraph-stackcollapse flamegraph-stackcollapse-perf gawk-abort gawk-devel gawk-doc gawk-errno gawk-json gawk-lmdb gawk-nl_langinfo gawk-pgsql gawk-redis gawk-select gawk-xml gawkextlib geeqie git-secret glimmer groff gt5 gtkpod guilt hylafax+ initscripts krb5-libs latex2rtf lbdb lde libguestfs libsmi linuxconsoletools linuxdoc-tools lorax ltunify m17n-db neofetch netconsole-service netdump-server network-scripts nfs-utils ocaml opari2 pal pcp phpPgAdmin pkgdiff policycoreutils prettyping quilt rarian readonly-root rear redhat-lsb-core redis resource-agents rf rpm-build rpmdevtools rust-packaging screenie selinux-policy seqan seqan2-apps sofia-sip-devel spectre-meltdown-checker surfraw syslog-ng systemtap-testsuite testssl topgit translate-shell tuned tw twa txt2man unity-gtk-module-common virt-p2v-maker virt-v2v vzctl-core xfce4-dev-tools xschem ypserv zram == Contingency Plan == * Contingency mechanism: Reverting to gawk 4.2.1 if significant issues are discovered * Contingency deadline: Beta freeze (?) * Blocks release? No * Blocks product? no == Documentation == * http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/tree/NEWS?h=gawk-5.0-stable * https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ * https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Namespaces -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedora Program Manager Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
