RegexKit Release Information

Release highlights:

• Upgraded to PCRE version 7.6, which includes an important security related bug fix.
• Preliminary support for internationalization, though English remains the only provided localization.
• Support for returning NSError objects for error conditions.
• Support for multiple regular expressions in a collection (i.e., NSArray) to be evaluated concurrently on multiple threads, one per CPU.

See Release Information - Release Notes for 0.6.0 Beta for more information.

Release highlights:

• RegexKit specific DTrace probes added.
• Collection of RegexKit instruments for Instruments.app.
• New NSArray methods for returning a NSIndexSet for matches.
• NSData class category additions.

See Release Information - Release Notes for 0.5.0 Beta for more information.

Release highlights:

• Many improvements in the handling of Unicode strings.
• The NSString additions and RKEnumerator class now calculate character indexes and NSRange values the same way the Foundation NSString class does for all string encodings.
• Perl style \u, \l, \U, \L, and \E escape sequences for case conversions, and \digit for capture subpattern references in replacement reference strings.

See Release Information - Release Notes for 0.4.0 Beta for more information.

Release highlights:

• Xcode 3.0 RegexKit documentation subscription and update notification.

This release is largely to address a sourceforge.net webserver issue which does not send the correct mime type for .dmg files. This results in Safari 3 misidentifying the .dmg as a .bz2 file. As a workaround, the .dmg is wrapped in a .tar file to protect it. Bug 1823644 filed with sourceforge.net.

See Release Information - Release Notes for 0.3.1 Beta for more information.

Release highlights:

• Mac OS X Installer.
• Mac OS X 10.5 support.
• RegexKit.framework Info.plist version corrected.
• Minor documentation updates.
• Parallel target builds.

The new Mac OS X .dmg distribution combines the previously separate binary and source code bundles into a single, convenient installer based package.

Mac OS X 10.5 Features:

• 64 bit support.
• Garbage Collection enabled.
• Documentation available in native Xcode 3.0 DocSet format.

The RegexKit.framework binary now includes support for four architectures: ppc, ppc64, i386, and x86_64. The 32 bit architecture images require a minimum Mac OS X of 10.4, while the 64 bit architecture versions require a minimum of 10.5.

The choice between using Garbage Collection or the traditional retain / release style of memory management is made at load time. If the dynamic linker determines that the necessary Garbage Collection prerequisites have been met, RegexKit switches to using Garbage Collection. Otherwise if Garbage Collection is not active at load time, RegexKit uses the traditional retain / release style of memory management.

The documentation for RegexKit is now available in the new Xcode 3.0 DocSet format. This allows you to access the frameworks documentation from within Xcode, including real time access via the Research Assistant. The DocSet documentation is installed in /Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets/, which Xcode 3.0 is set to scan automatically. You may have to quit and restart Xcode in order for the documentation to appear. Subscriptions are not yet enabled despite the subscription button being present.

See Release Information - Release Notes for 0.3.0 Beta for more information.

The largest user visible change in this release is the upgrade to PCRE 7.4 from the previous releases 7.3. The majority of work went towards bug fixes and improvements in the build system.

Release highlights:

• PCRE upgraded to 7.4.
• Version numbering system implemented. The framework version is also used for the frameworks shared library version. The previous release did not set a version and used the default of 1. This release has the version 0.2.0. Due to the fact that the framework is used as an embedded private framework, this should be a non-issue.
• ~15K smaller executable due to build setting optimizations. Now optimized with -Oz and dead code stripped.
• The source code distribution no longer contains the Mac OS X framework binary.
• PCRE build system received a major overhaul.
• All project build configuration settings were removed from RegexKit.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj and placed in Source/Build/Xcode/RegexKit Build Settings.xcconfig. This allows easier maintenance of the variables and the ability to document them with comments.
• There were several bugs in the build system regarding availability of tools and packages and their versions. This release should be more tolerant of differences and handle any issues much more gracefully.
• Minor documentation updates.
• Changed the framework initialization to use the more portable +load method rather than __attribute__(constructor).

See Release Information - Release Notes for 0.2.0 Beta for more information.

The first public release of the RegexKit framework.

See Release Information - Release Notes for Alpha for more information.