is this --branch bash-5.1-testing stilk actual, or should i use devel
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 17:03 Chet Ramey wrote:
> The third release candidate of bash-5.1 is now available with the URL
>
> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.1-rc3.tar.gz
>
> and from the bash-5.1-testing branch in the bash git repository
> (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/?h=bash-5.1-testing).
> You can use
>
> git clone --branch bash-5.1-testing git://git.savannah.gnu.org/bash.git
>
> to clone the testing branch.
>
> The CWRU FTP site works best if your client supports Extended Passive
> (EPSV) mode.
>
> This tar file includes the formatted documentation (you should be able to
> generate updated versions yourself).
>
> This release fixes several outstanding bugs in bash-5.0 and introduces
> several new features. The most significant change is a return to the
> bash-4.4 behavior of not performing pathname expansion on a word that
> contains backslashes but does not contain any unquoted globbing special
> characters. This comes after a long POSIX discussion that resulted in a
> change to the standard. There are several changes regarding trap handling
> while reading from the terminal (e.g, for `read' and `select'.) There are a
> number of bug fixes, including several bugs that caused the shell to
> crash.
> Details are appended.
>
> The most notable new features are in the random number engine. There is a
> new variable, SRANDOM, which gets its random data from the system's entropy
> engine and so is not linear and cannot be reseeded to get an identical
> random sequence. The PROMPT_COMMANDS array variable can be used to run
> multiple commands before printing the primary prompt. Associative arrays
> may
> be assigned using a series of key-value pairs within a compound assignment.
> `wait' has a new `-p' option which stores PID information about the process
> reaped by `wait -n'. Process substitution is now available in posix mode.
> There are new parameter transformation operators. There is no new
> `compat50'
> option; use the BASH_COMPAT variable to select the compatibility level.
> All the new features are described below.
>
> The most visible new feature is in Readline: the addition of `faces', which
> highlights the text between the point and mark (the region, so this is also
> called the 'active region'). This was added to show visibly the text
> inserted by bracketed paste, and also marks the text found by incremental
> and non-incremental history searches. Faces are currently tied to
> bracketed paste and are enabled and disabled along with bracketed paste
> mode. Bracketed paste mode is enabled by default.
>
> There are a few incompatible changes between bash-5.0 and bash-5.1. The
> change to pathname expansion means that words containing backslashes, but
> no
> special globbing characters, will not undergo pathname expansion. While
> the bash-5.0 behavior was POSIX-conformant, the change was not
> well-received.
> Changes to the random number engines mean that seeding RANDOM will produce
> a different numeric sequence. Set the compatibility level to 50 to revert
> to the bash-5.0 behavior.
>
> `bashbug' may be used to report bugs with this version. It will send
> mail to chet.ra...@case.edu if the shell's `release status' is alpha or
> beta.
>
> As always, thanks for your help.
>
> Chet
>
> +== CHANGES ==+
> This document details the changes between this version, bash-5.1-rc3, and
> the previous version, bash-5.1-rc2.
>
> 1. Changes to Bash
>
> a. The `assoc_expand_once' option now affects the evaluation of the -v
> primary
>to test and the [[ compound command.
>
> 2. Changes to Readline
>
> a. Fixed a bug that could cause point to be set beyond the end of the line
>buffer when aborting an incremental search.
>
> 3. New Features in Bash
>
> 4. New Features in Readline
>
>
> --
> This document details the changes between this version, bash-5.1-rc2, and
> the previous version, bash-5.1-rc1.
>
> 1. Changes to Bash
>
> a. Process substitutions started from an interactive shell no longer have
> their
>standard input implicitly redirected from /dev/null.
>
> b. Fixed an issue with setting the SIGINT trap handler in an interactive
> shell
>when temporarily running $PROMPT_COMMAND non-interactively.
>
> 2. Changes to Readline
>
> a. Terminals that are named "dumb" or unknown do not enable bracketed paste
>by default.
>
> b. Ensure that disabling bracketed paste turns off highlighting the
> incremental
>search string when the search is successful.
>
> 3. New Features in Bash
>
> 4. New Features in Readline
>
>
> --
> This document details the changes between this version, bash-5.1-rc1, and
> the previous version, bash-5.1-beta.
>
> 1. Changes to Bash
>
> a. Fixed an inconsistency in the way HISTCMD is calculated when it's
>
