This is a comparatively large release, incorporating new features, some bugfixes, and a few changes with slight backwards compatibility implications. Please see the NEWS file for further details.

This release is the first to be available as a (signed) Git tag, or alternatively as a (signed) tarball of the Git tag.

This is also the first release to be made by the new maintainers of PCRE2, and we would like to thank Philip Hazel, creator and maintainer of PCRE and PCRE2.