git: b96680d9ca08 - stable/13 - RELNOTES: add notes about awk updates

[Warner Losh]

The branch stable/13 has been updated by imp:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b96680d9ca08c1001868778ff9764b93e20f59be

commit b96680d9ca08c1001868778ff9764b93e20f59be
Author:     Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-07-30 23:04:53 +0000
Commit:     Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-07-30 23:04:53 +0000

    RELNOTES: add notes about awk updates
    
    Direct commit to stable/13 to note user-visible changes in the awk
    update.
    
    Sponsored by:           Netflix
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 RELNOTES | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 1e8c23f98703..376615308ada 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,20 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
 
 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+various:
+	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
+	(20210215). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
+	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
+		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
+		o Various bugs fixed
+		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
+
+	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
+	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
+	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
+	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
+	behavior.
+
 8a04edfdcbd2:
 	Change the default minor version used for an NFSv4 mount
 	to the highest minor version supported by the NFSv4 server.