[[ maintainer: Send to platform-testers for betas/RCs, info-gnu for releases, and CC groff and linux-man@vger.kernel.org for both. ]] [[ groff x.y.Y release candidate Z, x.y.Y.rcZ, is now available from GNU's alpha site. You may download the distribution archive from there. https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/groff/ ]] [[ We are pleased to announce the availability of groff 1.yy.0. Obtain it from the GNU mirror network, https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz or, if the network is for some reason inoperative, directly from GNU. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz ]] Ensure the integrity of your download by checking this source code archive's cryptographic signature; see "Obtaining groff" below. What is groff? ============== groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input that includes formatting commands to produce output in PostScript, PDF, HTML, or DVI formats or for display to a terminal. Formatting commands can be low-level typesetting primitives, macros from a supplied package, or user-defined macros. All three approaches can be combined. A reimplementation and extension of troff and other programs from AT&T Unix, groff is widely available on POSIX and other systems owing to its long association with Unix manuals, including man pages. It and its predecessor have produced several best-selling software engineering texts. groff can create typographically sophisticated documents while consuming minimal system resources. https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ Changes ======= Since groff 1.23.0 was released on 5 July 2023, MM people have made a total of over NNN commits. [[ Changes since the most recent release candidate, 1.yy.0.rcZ ... ]] [[ maintainer: Insert output of "git shortlog --summary 1.22.4..1.23.0" ]] [[ Headline features nominated by our development community include: ]] For more on these and other feature changes, see "News" below. [[ As of this writing, per the GNU Savannah bug tracker, the groff project has resolved NNN problems as fixed for the 1.yy.0 release. ]] Classifying these issues by type and the component of the project to which they apply, we find the following. Type Component ---- --------- Build/installation NN Core NN Crash/unresponsive NN Driver: grohtml NN Documentation NN Driver: gropdf NN Feature change NN Driver: grops NN Incorrect behavior NN Driver: grotty NN Lint NN Driver: others/general NN Rendering/cosmetics NN Font: devpdf NN Test NN Font: devps NN Warning/suspicious behavior NN Font: others/general NN General NN Macros: man NN Macros: mdoc NN Macros: me NN Macros: mm NN Macros: mom NN Macros: ms NN Macros: others/general NN Preprocessor: eqn NN Preprocessor: grn NN Preprocessor: pic NN Preprocessor: preconv NN Preprocessor: refer NN Preprocessor: tbl NN Preprocessor: others/general NN Utilities NN Another way of capturing the amount of revision is as follows. $ git diff --stat 1.23.0 1.yy.0 | tail -n 1 [[ maintainer: insert output ]] Obtaining groff =============== Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]. [[ maintainer: insert .tar.gz URL ]] [[ maintainer: insert .tar.gz.sig URL ]] [[ maintainer: include the following for final release: Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth. https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz.sig ]] Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz The SHA-256 checksum is encoded in Base64 instead of the hexadecimal form that most checksum tools default to. The mechanism follows. sha256sum < groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz | cut -f1 -d\ | xxd -r -p | base64 [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding archive. Then, verify the archive. gpg --verify groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz{.sig,} If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, you can import it. wget -O 96214.asc \ 'https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=96214' gpg --import 96214.asc Re-run the 'gpg --verify' command subsequently. Caveats ======= o GNU tools, or otherwise POSIX-conforming ones, are generally required to build on Solaris 10 or 11. See the "PROBLEMS" file in the distribution archive. o Solaris 10 has known problems with automated tests; see the "PROBLEMS" file in the distribution archive. News ==== [[ maintainer: insert output of "sed -n '/VERSION 1\.yy/{n;:X;n;/VERSION 1\.23/q;p;bX}' NEWS" ]] Acknowledgements ================ We'd like to thank the following people for helping ensure the quality of this release. [[ maintainer: Collect "thanks to" credits from the ChangeLog file, for instance with "grep -i -A1 thanks ChangeLog". A manual merge of similar from the contrib/ change log files may also be necessary. ]] Alex Colomar Alexander Kanavin Alexis (surryhill) Andrew Bower Benno Schulenberg Bjarni Ingi Gislason Brian Inglis Bruno Haible Carsten Kunze Christof Meerwald Colin Watson Collin Funk Damian McGuckin Dave Kemper Deri James Doug McIlroy Duncan Losin Eli Schwartz Eloi Montañés Frederic Chartier Gavin Smith Hanno Boeck Hans Bezemer Heinz-Jürgen Oertel Helge Kreutzmann Ian Ropers Ingo Schwarze Jeff Conrad Joerg van den Hoff Lennart Jablonka Lukas Javorsky Michał Kruszewski Mike Fulton Morten Bo Johansen Nikita Ivanov Oliver Corff onf Patrice Dumas Paul Eggert Peter Schaffter Phil Chadwick Pim Ralph Corderoy Rob Kolstad Robert Yang Ross Burton Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau Sven Schober TANAKA Takuji Tadziu Hoffman Thorsten Glaser Thérèse Godefroy Walter Alejandro Iglesias Werner Lemberg наб