[Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.18-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ed 1.18-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ed/ed-1.18-pre1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
7bc4b0c910e9f807356d5fe5cf2e2ead433c2adf3360a5baf6343d0d6d33d8c7 
ed-1.18-pre1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify 
and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell 
scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current 
directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the "standard" text 
editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely 
available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen 
editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html


Changes in this version:

  * A couple of harmless memory leaks have been fixed. (They both happened 
just before ed exits). (Reported by Xosé Vázquez Pérez).

  * The pointer returned by the function 'strip_escapes' is now checked. 
(It may be null if memory is exhausted).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.

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