Release Digest: GNU, December 19, 2003

Ocrad 0.6

I am pleased to announce the release of Ocrad 0.6.

Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.

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

The sources can be dowloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ocrad/
or from your favorite GNU mirror.

The md5sum is:
ebcefd3512a4f9d870d302167d8b8ec9 ocrad-0.6.tar.bz2

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature
by appending “.sig” to the URL.

Changes in version 0.6:

• ‘configure’ is now compatible with ‘sh’, not only ‘bash’.
• Better algorithmn for lowercase-uppercase decision.
• Small changes to line detector. (Less broken lines).
• Fixed bug (output of char 0 when separating some merged
  chars).

Be aware that frames, lines, pictures, broken chars, merged
chars, etc, can (by the moment) totally confuse ocrad.

Please report bugs to <<A
HREF=”mailto:bug-ocrad@gnu.org”>bug-ocrad@gnu.org>.

Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.

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GNU sed 4.0b

A new version of sed, the GNU stream editor, has been published
at

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.0b.tar.gz

sed 4.1, of which sed 4.0b is the second beta release, features
much better internationalization. 8-bit character sets, as well as
stateful and stateless multi-byte character sets, are handled much
better than in other implementations of sed; still, there no
performance penalties if you are using 8-bit character sets such as
ISO-8859.

This version also includes the latest version of the GNU regex
matcher, which includes several performance improvements and
bugfixes; this will be backported to the 4.0 stable branch soon.
Thanks to Jakub Jelinek for working on these improvements and to
Ulrich Drepper for accepting my work in this area.

You are encouraged to try out this version of sed and exercise
it through large configure scripts, especially if you work in a
multi-byte locale. Bug reports are welcome at bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org; please
include the word “sed” in the message subject, and try to be as
specific as possible, following the bug reporting instructions in
the tarball. You are also encouraged to try compiling sed on as
many architectures as possible.

Version 4.1 will be published as soon as enough success reports
are received, probably in Q1 2004.

Regards,

Paolo Bonzini