[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.4.0 released

[Colin W. <cjw...@de...>]

man-db: The on-line manual database
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I've released man-db version 2.4.0.

Description
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man_db contains an implementation of the man command, which is the
primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other
utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching
the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
zsoelim. The package requires a troff installation, such as groff (GNU
troff) to format and display the manual pages.

About this release
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This release features support for looking up manual pages
case-insensitively, and better automatic support for the UTF-8 character
encoding. In addition, it fixes a number of annoying segmentation fault
bugs in earlier releases, works around a misfeature in Berkeley DB upon
encountering a zero-length database, and drops setuid privileges in a
number of places where this had been forgotten.

The routines for locating manual pages and deciding which ones to
display have been substantially rewritten, in response to reports of
errors made by the old algorithms. Although I believe them to be robust,
reports of any new bugs that may be caused by this will as always be
greatly appreciated.

For full details of these and of the other improvements in this release,
please see the files docs/NEWS and docs/ChangeLog in the source
distribution.

  http://man-db.sourceforge.net/
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/man-db/man-db-2.4.0.tar.gz

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjw...@de...]