# Hyperscan Change Log

This is a list of notable changes to Hyperscan, in reverse chronological order.

## [4.1.0] 2015-12-18
- Update version of PCRE used by testing tools as a syntax and semantic
  reference to PCRE 8.38.
- Small updates to fix warnings identified by Coverity.
- Clean up and unify exception handling behaviour across GPR and SIMD NFA
  models.
- Fix bug in handling of bounded repeat triggers with large gaps between them
  for sparse repeat model.
- Correctly reject POSIX collating elements (`[.ch.]`, `[=ch=]`) in the parser.
  These are not supported by Hyperscan.
- Add support for quoted sequences (`\Q...\E`) inside character classes.
- Simplify FDR literal matcher runtime by removing some static specialization.
- Fix handling of the POSIX `[:graph:]`, `[:print:]` and `[:punct:]` character
  classes to match the behaviour of PCRE 8.38 in both standard operation and
  with the UCP flag set. (Note: some bugs were fixed in this area in PCRE
  8.38.) Previously Hyperscan's behaviour was the same as versions of PCRE
  before 8.34.
- Improve performance when compiling pattern sets that include a large number
  of similar bounded repeat constructs. (github issue #9)

## [4.0.1] 2015-10-30
- Minor cleanups to test code.
- CMake and other build system improvements.
- API update: allow `hs_reset_stream()` and `hs_reset_and_copy_stream()` to be
  supplied with a NULL scratch pointer if no matches are required. This is in
  line with the behaviour of `hs_close_stream()`.
- Disallow bounded repeats with a very large minimum repeat but no maximum,
  i.e. {N,} for very large N.
- Reduce compile memory usage in literal set explansion for some large cases.

## [4.0.0] 2015-10-20
- Original release of Hyperscan as open-source software.