Version 2.0.3
2009-10-28
Use LW:SIMPLE-TEXT-STRING throughout for LispWorks

Version 2.0.2
2009-09-17
Fixed typo in chartest.lisp (caught by Peter Seibel)
Appease CCL (thanks to Hans Hübner)

Version 2.0.1
2008-09-02
Fixed faulty declaration (caught by Brent Fulgham)

Version 2.0.0
2008-07-24
Added named properties (\p{foo})
Added Unicode support
Introduced test functions for character classes
Added optional test function optimization	
Cleaned up test suite, removed performance cruft
Removed the various alternative system definitions (too much maintenance work)
Exported PARSE-STRING
Changed default value of *USE-BMH-MATCHERS*
General cleanup	
Lots of documentation additions

Version 1.4.1
2008-07-03
Skip non-characters in CREATE-RANGES-FROM-SET	

Version 1.4.0
2008-07-03
Replaced hash tables with charsets (by Nikodemus Siivola)
Get rid of duplicates in REGEX-APROPOS(-LIST)

Version 1.3.3
2008-06-25
Let the Lisp decide how it wants to enlarge its hash tables
Fixed anchors for special variables in docs
Fixed typo in docs (thanks to Jason S. Cornez)

Version 1.3.2
2007-09-13
Updated docs and ChangeLog to be really in sync with 1.3.1 changes (thanks to Sébastien Saint-Sevin)

Version 1.3.1
2007-08-24
Second return value for REGEX-REPLACE and REGEX-REPLACE-ALL (patch by Matthew Sachs)

Version 1.3.0
2007-03-24
Optional support for named registers (patch by Ondrej Svitek)

Version 1.2.19
2007-01-16
Fixed behaviour of look-behind in repeated scans (caught by RegexCoach user Hans Jud)

Version 1.2.18
2006-10-12
Changed default element type for LispWorks
Fixed documentation for REGEX-REPLACE-ALL	

Version 1.2.17
2006-10-11
Fixed bug in DO-SCANS which affected anchors (caught by RegexCoach user Laurent Taupiac)
Update link for 'man perlre' (thanks to Ricardo Boccato Alves)

Version 1.2.16
2006-07-16
Added :ELEMENT-TYPE to REGEX-REPLACE(-ALL)

Version 1.2.15
2006-07-03
Added :REGEX tag to parse tree syntax (thanks to Frédéric Jolliton)

Version 1.2.14
2006-05-24
Added missing </code> tag in docs (thanks to Wojciech Kaczmarek)
Fixed IMPORT statement for LW	

Version 1.2.13
2005-12-06
Fixed bug involving *REAL-START-POS* (caught by "tichy")

Version 1.2.12
2005-11-01
REGEX-APROPOS-AUX now also uses :INHERITED
Fixed typo in parser.lisp (thanks to Derek Peschel)
Fixed value of *REGEX-CHAR-CODE-LIMIT* in docs and test (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)

Version 1.2.11
2005-08-01
Added external format for SBCL in ppcre-tests.lisp (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)

Version 1.2.10
2005-07-20
Fixed bug in CHAR-SEARCHER-AUX (caught by Peter Schuller)
Don't redefine what's already there (for LispWorks)

Version 1.2.9
2005-06-27
Hide compiler macros from CCL (thanks to Karsten Poeck)

Version 1.2.8
2005-06-10
Change EQ to EQL in REGEX-LENGTH for ANSI conformance and ABCL compatibility (thanks to Peter Graves)

Version 1.2.7
2005-05-16
Added lispworks-defsystem.lisp (thanks to Wade Humeniuk)
Fixed bug in WORD-BOUNDARY-P

Version 1.2.6
2005-04-13
Added some DEFGENERICs to appease SBCL (thanks to Alan Shields)
Removed wrong FTYPE declaration for STR (thanks to Alan Shields)

Version 1.2.5
2005-03-09
Customizable optimize qualities (thanks to Damien Kick)

Version 1.2.4
2005-03-07
Changed DEBUG optimize quality from 0 to 1

Version 1.2.3
2005-02-02
Wrapped WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT around loop in load.lisp

Version 1.2.2
2005-02-02
Fixed bug in hash table optimization (introduced in 1.1.0)

Version 1.2.1
2005-01-25
There was a wrong read-time conditional in api.lisp, sorry

Version 1.2.0
2005-01-24
AllegroCL compatibility mode
Fixed broken load.lisp file (caught by Jim Prewett and Zach Beane)

Version 1.1.0
2005-01-23
Cleaned up load.lisp and cl-ppcre.asd
Make large hash tables smaller, if possible
Correct treatment of constant regular expressions in DO-SCANS

Version 1.0.0
2004-12-22
Special anniversary release... :)

Version 0.9.4
2004-12-18
Fixed bug in NORMALIZE-VAR-LIST (caught by Dave Roberts)

Version 0.9.3
2004-12-09
Fixed bug in CREATE-SCANNER-AUX (caught by Allan Ruttenberg and Gary Byers)

Version 0.9.2
2004-12-06
More compiler macros (thanks to Allan Ruttenberg)

Version 0.9.1
2004-11-29
Shortcuts for REGISTER-GROUPS-BIND and DO-REGISTER-GROUPS (suggested by Alexander Kjeldaas)

Version 0.9.0
2004-10-14
Experimental support for "filters"
Bugfix for standalone regular expressions (ACCUMULATE-START-P wasn't set to NIL)

Version 0.8.1
2004-09-30
Patches for Genera 8.5 (thanks to Patrick O'Donnell)

Version 0.8.0
2004-09-16
Added parse tree synonyms (thanks to Patrick O'Donnell)

Version 0.7.9
2004-07-13
Fixed bug in DO-SCANS (caught by Jan Rychter)

Version 0.7.8
2004-07-13
New SIMPLE-CALLS keyword argument for REGEX-REPLACE(-ALL)
Added environment parameter to compiler macros (thanks to c.l.l article <aczhx5hj.fsf@ccs.neu.edu> by Joe Marshall)
Added compiler macros for SCAN-TO-STRINGS and REGEX-REPLACE(-ALL) (they somehow got lost)

Version 0.7.7
2004-05-19
Fixed bug in NEWLINE-SKIPPER (caught by RegexCoach user Thomas-Paz Hartman)
Added doc strings for PPCRE-SYNTAX-ERROR and friends (after playing with slime-apropos-package)
Added hyperdoc support

Version 0.7.6
2004-04-20
The closures created by CREATE-BMH-MATCHER now cleanly cope with negative arguments (bug caught by Damien Kick)

Version 0.7.5
2004-04-19
Fixed a bug with constant-length repetitions of . (dot) in single-line mode (caught by RegexCoach user Lee Gold)

Version 0.7.4
2004-02-16
Fixed wrong call to SIGNAL-PPCRE-SIGNAL-ERROR in lexer.lisp (caught by Peter Graves)
Added :CL-PPCRE to *FEATURES* (for CL-INTERPOL)
Compiler macro for SPLIT

Version 0.7.3
2004-01-28
Fixed bug in CURRENT-MIN-REST for lookaheads (reported by RegexCoach user Thomas-Paz Hartman)
Added tests for this bug

Version 0.7.2
2004-01-27
Fixed typo (SUBSEQ/NSUBSEQ) in SPLIT (thanks to Alan Ruttenberg)
Updated docs with respect to ECL (thanks to Alex Mizrahi)
Mention FreeBSD port in docs

Version 0.7.1
2003-10-24
Fixed version numbers in docs (thanks to Sébastien Saint-Sevin)

Version 0.7.0
2003-10-23
New macros REGISTER-GROUPS-BIND and DO-REGISTER-GROUPS
Added SHAREP keyword argument to most API functions and macros
Mention CL-INTERPOL in docs
Partial code cleanup (using WITH-UNIQUE-NAMES and REBINDING)

Version 0.6.1
2003-10-11
Added EXTERNAL-FORMAT keyword args to CL-PPCRE-TEST:TEST for some CLs (thanks to JP Massar and Scott D. Kalter)
Fixed bug with REGEX-REPLACE and REGEX-REPLACE-ALL when (= START END) was true
Added doc sections for quoting problems and backslash confusions (thanks to conversations with Peter Seibel)
Disable quoting in definition of QUOTE-SECTIONS so you can always safely rebuild CL-PPCRE

Version 0.6.0
2003-10-07
CL-PPCRE now has its own condition types
Added support for Perl's \Q and \E (Peter Seibel convinced me to do it) - see QUOTE-META-CHARS and *ALLOW-QUOTING*
Added tests for this new feature
Threaded tests are more verbose now and use only keyword args

Version 0.5.9
2003-10-03
Changed "^" optimizations with respect to constant end strings with offsets (bug caught by Yexuan Gui)
Added tests for this bug
Removed *.dos files from CL-PPCRE-TEST tests (thanks to JP Massar)
Added threaded tests for SBCL (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)

Version 0.5.8
2003-09-17
Optimizations for ".*" were too optimistic when look-behinds were involved
Added tests for this bug
Removed *.dos files

Version 0.5.7
2003-08-20
Fixed (CL-PPCRE:SCAN "(.)X$" "ABCX" :START 4) bug (spotted by Tibor Simko)
Forgot to export *REGEX-CHAR-CODE-LIMIT* in Corman version of DEFPACKAGE
Removed Emacs local variables from source code (finally...)
Mention Gentoo in docs

Version 0.5.6
2003-06-30
Replaced wrong COPY-REGEX code for WORD-BOUNDARY objects (detected by Max Goldberg)
Added info about possible TRUENAME problems with ACL in README (thanks to Kevin Layer for providing a patch for this)

Version 0.5.5
2003-06-09
Patch for SBCL/Debian compatibility by Kevin Rosenberg
Simpler version of compiler macro
Availability through asdf-install

Version 0.5.4
2003-04-09
Added DESTRUCTIVE keyword to CREATE-SCANNER

Version 0.5.3
2003-03-31
Fixed bug in REGEX-REPLACE (replacement string couldn't contain literal backslash)
Fixed bug in definition of CHAR-CLASS (since 0.5.0 the hash slot may be NIL - CMUCL's new PCL detects this)
Micro-optimization in INSERT-CHAR-CLASS-TESTER: CHAR-NOT-GREATERP instead of CHAR-DOWNCASE

Version 0.5.2
2003-03-28
Better compiler macro (thanks to Kent M. Pitman)

Version 0.5.1
2003-03-27
Removed compiler macro

Version 0.5.0
2003-03-27
Lexer, parser, and converter mostly re-written to reduce consing and increase speed
Get rid of FIX-POS in lexer and parser, "ism" flags are handled after parsing now
Smaller test suite (again) due to literal embedding of line breaks
Seperate test files for DOS line endings
Replaced constant +REGEX-CHAR-CODE-LIMIT+ with special variable *REGEX-CHAR-CODE-LIMIT*

Version 0.4.1
2003-03-19
Added compiler macro for SCAN
Changed test suite to be nicer to Corman Lisp and ECL (see docs for new syntax)
Incorporated visual feedback (dots) in test suite (thanks to JP Massar)
Added README file
Replaced STRING-LIST-TO-SIMPLE-STRING with a much improved version by JP Massar

Version 0.4.0
2003-02-27
Added *USE-BMH-MATCHER*

Version 0.3.2
2003-02-21
Added load.lisp
Various minor changes for Corman Lisp compatibility (thanks to Karsten Poeck and JP Massar)

Version 0.3.1
2003-01-18
Bugfix in CREATE-SCANNER (didn't work if flags were given and arg was a parse-tree)

Version 0.3.0
2003-01-12
Added new features to REGEX-REPLACE and REGEX-REPLACE-ALL

Version 0.2.0
2003-01-11
Make SPLIT more Perl-compatible, including new keyword parameters

Version 0.1.4
2003-01-10
Don't move "^" and "\A" while iterating with DO-SCANS
Added link to Debian package

Version 0.1.3
2002-12-25
More usable MK:DEFSYSTEM files (courtesy of Hannu Koivisto)
Fixed typo in documentation

Version 0.1.2
2002-12-22
Added version numbers for Debian packaging
Be friendly to case-sensitive ACL images (courtesy of Kevin Rosenberg and Douglas Crosher)
"Fixed" two cases where declarations came after docstrings (because of bugs in Corman Lisp and older CMUCL versions)
Added #-cormanlisp to hide (INCF (THE FIXNUM POS)) from Corman Lisp
Added file doc/benchmarks.2002-12-22.txt

Version 0.1.1
2002-12-21
Added asdf system definitions by Marco Baringer
Small additions to documentation
Correct (Emacs) local variables list in closures.lisp and api.lisp
Added this CHANGELOG

Version 0.1.0
2002-12-20
Initial release
