I am pleased to announce that version 2.7 of GNU patch has been released. The following significant changes have happened since the last stable release in December 2009: * Support for most features of the "diff --git" format, including renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs. Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them. * Support for double-quoted filenames: when a filename starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are recognized. * Ignore destination file names that are absolute or that contain a component of "..". This addresses CVE-2010-4651. * Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous versions of patch were replacing the symlink with a regular file.) * When trying to modify a read-only file, warn about the potential problem by default. The --read-only command line option allows to change this behavior. * Files to be deleted are deleted once the entire input has been processed, not immediately. This fixes a bug with numbered backup files. * When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of assuming the local time zone (--set-date) or Universal Coordinated Time (--set-utc). * Support for nanosecond precision timestamps. * Patch no longer gets a failed assertion for certain mangled patches. * Many portability and bug fixes. Release tarballs are available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/ Please report bugs or suggestions on the <bug-patch@xxxxxxx> mailing list, or in the project's bug tracker on Savannah: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html