Important Update-Crystal is upgrading its Regex engine

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We’re asking for feedback on the effects of the migration to PCRE2. Please help out by responding to this poll:

Poll: Experiences with the migration to PCRE2

A couple of weeks ago we announced the upgrade of Crystal’s regex engine to PCRE2. The upgraded engine is used by default in nightly releases and can be optionally tested in Crystal 1.7 with the -Duse_pcre2 flag (we recommend 1.7.3 for that). We have since received some feedback from the community. Besides positive and mostly (i.e. only requiring minor adjustments) reports, we’ve seen a guide about diligent compatibility testing and some critical comments on the transition process. I am not awa…