From: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Cc: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sed: Update to version 4.10
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:47:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427184701.2249214-3-adolf.belka@ipfire.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260427184701.2249214-1-adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
- Update from version 4.9 to 4.10
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
4.10
Bug fixes
sed 's/a/b/g' (and other global substitutions) now works on input
lines longer than 2GB. Previously, matches beyond the 2^31 byte offset
would evoke a "panic" (exit 4).
[bug present since the beginning]
'sed --follow-symlinks -i' no longer has a TOCTOU race that could let
an attacker swap a symlink between resolution and open, causing sed to
read attacker-chosen content and write it to the original target.
[bug introduced in sed 4.1e]
sed no longer falsely matches when back-references are combined with
optional groups (.?) and the $ anchor. For example, this no longer
falsely matches the empty string at beginning of line:
$ echo ab | sed -E 's/^(.?)(.?).?\2\1$/X/'
Xab
[bug present since "the beginning"]
In --posix mode, sed no longer mishandles backslash escapes (\n,
\t, \a, etc.) after a named character class like [[:alpha:]].
For example, 's/^A\n[[:alpha:]]\n*/XXX/' would fail to match the
trailing newline, treating \n as a literal backslash and an 'n'
rather than a newline. This happened when an earlier backslash
escape in the same regex had already been converted, shifting the
in-place normalization buffer.
[bug introduced in sed 4.9]
sed --debug no longer crashes when a label (":") command is compiled
before the --debug option is processed, e.g., sed -f<(...) --debug.
[bug introduced in sed 4.7 with --debug]
sed no longer rejects the documented GNU extension 'a**' (equivalent
to 'a*') in Basic Regular Expression (BRE) mode. Previously, this
worked only with -E (ERE mode), even though grep has always accepted
it in BRE mode.
[bug present since "the beginning"]
sed no longer rejects "\c[" in regular expressions
[bug present since the beginning]
'sed --follow-symlinks -i' no longer mishandles an operand that is a
short symbolic link to a long symbolic link to a file.
[bug introduced in sed 4.9]
Fix some some longstanding but unlikely integer overflows.
Internally, 'sed' now more often prefers signed integer arithmetic,
which can be checked automatically via 'gcc -fsanitize=undefined'.
Changes in behavior
In the default C locale, diagnostics now quote 'like this' (with
apostrophes) instead of `like this' (with a grave accent and an
apostrophe). This tracks the GNU coding standards.
'sed --posix' now warns about uses of backslashes in the 's' command
that are handled by GNU sed but are not portable to other
implementations.
Build-related
builds no longer fail on platforms without the <getopt.h> header or
getopt_long function.
[bug introduced in sed 4.9]
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
---
lfs/sed | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lfs/sed b/lfs/sed
index 89ca4f250..f11096053 100644
--- a/lfs/sed
+++ b/lfs/sed
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
###############################################################################
# #
# IPFire.org - A linux based firewall #
-# Copyright (C) 2007-2018 IPFire Team <info@ipfire.org> #
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2026 IPFire Team <info@ipfire.org> #
# #
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify #
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by #
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
include Config
-VER = 4.9
+VER = 4.10
THISAPP = sed-$(VER)
DL_FILE = $(THISAPP).tar.xz
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
$(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
-$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 6c7c7dc782b87c3bd0b5e826ba46c2f1dc7bd8c1159945fcf14b394711742964628774cf9f27d844b672721d7849e6c31992d82fafb9ed4118b7feb60406d1e1
+$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 6decea38a3e6eb3b672af2380ec3f32759b60350dba528d28a57b74806db33208baed69a8497d423bc7626105930e3e9c9ea68f68b8bcd4a3270f2d8922a2487
install : $(TARGET)
--
2.54.0
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