Some glitches in release 2.6 of GNU patch made a new release 2.6.1 necessary, available from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/
The previous release was on 13 November. NEWS since then:
* Support for diff3(1) style merges which show the old, original, and new lines of a conflict has been added (--merge=diff3). The default still is the merge(1) format (--merge or --merge=merge). * Bug and portability fixes.
The source code repository, a bug-patch@gnu.org mailing list archive, and the project's bug tracker are available at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch
Please email bugs or suggestions to <bug-patch@gnu.org>. Check the bug tracker for a list of known issues.
Thanks, Andreas