[Grep-devel] preparing to release grep-3.1

[Jim Meyering]

It has been more than four months since grep-3.0 was released.
Since then, there have been two NEWS-worthy changes:

  ** Improvements

    grep '[0-9]' is now just as fast as grep '[[:digit:]]' when run
    in a multi-byte locale.  Before, it was several times slower.

  ** Changes in behavior

    The following changes affect only MS-Windows platforms.  First, the
    --binary (-U) option now governs whether binary I/O is used, instead
    of a heuristic that was sometimes incorrect.  Second, the
    --unix-byte-offsets (-u) option now has no effect on MS-Windows too.

That first one is important, since many regular expressions use [0-9]
and the vast majority of people use multi-byte locales these days.

I have not begun to look at the bug report queues, and will
first update to the latest gnulib, so this is mainly a heads-up
that a new release is coming.