GNU ed 1.22.4 released

Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:13:04 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.org.fsf.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.22.4.

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify 
and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell 
scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current 
directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the 'standard' text 
editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely 
available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen editors.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ed/

The sha256sum is:
987a1ebbbad3fcf63a1ffa9e29b3fa7de065150d16319d0a49dd8b57f81d3e9c 
ed-1.22.4.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending 
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't 
have the required public key, then run one of these commands to import it:

   gpg --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742
   wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu-keyring.gpg

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.22.4:

   * 'make check' now skips the checking of file names with non-ASCII 
non-UTF-8 characters on file systems where such characters are invalid.
(Reported by Michael Daniels and Alexander Jones).


Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ed maintainer.
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html