GNU RCS 5.9.3 available

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

release notes:

  Bug and portability fixes.  We welcome Patrick M. Pielage,
  Achim Gratz and Hannes Küttner to the THANKS file.

  thi

README excerpt:

  GNU RCS (Revision Control System) manages multiple revisions of files.
  RCS can store, retrieve, log, identify, and merge revisions.
  It is useful for files that are revised frequently, e.g.,
  programs, documentation, graphics, and papers.

NEWS for 5.9.3 (2014-09-17):

  - compatibility w/ RCS 2.x file format dropped

    This was presaged w/ RCS 5.9.0 (released 2013-05-06), below.
    Effectively, the configure script no longer supports option
    ‘--enable-compat2’, and RCS programs will fail, reporting a
    syntax error, if given a comma-v file in 2.x format.

  - bug fixes

    - crash on co/ci without changes on a branch

      RCS 5.8 (released 2011-08-30) introduced a bug whereby a ci
      without changes (i.e., reversion) on a branch would crash,
      leaving a temporary files and corrupted comma-v file as well.
      This regression is now fixed.  See tests/t804, and also:
      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-01/msg00000.html

    - file corruption using stdio under Cygwin, Darwin

      RCS 5.8 (released 2011-08-30) introduced a bug when using stdio
      (e.g., with env var ‘RCS_MEM_LIMIT’ set to "0") under Cygwin
      whereby ci with a sufficiently large working file would silently
      write a truncated comma-v file.  See tests/t805, and also:
      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-06/msg00000.html

      (Although the bug was initially discovered under Cygwin, the
      Hydra project reported the same problem for Darwin.)

  - portability fixes

    - don't recurse on ‘main’

      This is for the sake of Cygwin "make check".  See:
      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-08/msg00015.html

    - avoid C99 VLA elems in func decl, sometimes

      This is for the sake of Solaris 10 + GCC 3.4.3.  See:
      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-08/msg00002.html

  - new diff/diff3 cross-compilation support

    The configure script now assigns "optimistic defaults" to some
    diff/diff3-related vars when cross-compiling and invoked with
    vars ‘DIFF’ and ‘DIFF3’.  See README.

  - maintenance tools updated
    - automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
    - gnulib-tool (GNU gnulib 2014-09-16 19:26:48) 0.1.222-aa0c2

tarball and detached signature:

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  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/rcs/rcs-5.9.3.tar.xz
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/rcs/rcs-5.9.3.tar.xz.sig

source code:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/rcs.git/?h=p

homepage:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

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