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+This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-3.1 since
+the release of bash-3.0.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
+the place to look for complete descriptions.
+
+1.  New Features in Bash
+
+a.  Bash now understands LC_TIME as a special variable so that time display
+    tracks the current locale.
+
+b.  BASH_ARGC, BASH_ARGV, BASH_SOURCE, and BASH_LINENO are no longer created
+    as `invisible' variables and may not be unset.
+
+c.  In POSIX mode, if `xpg_echo' option is enabled, the `echo' builtin doesn't
+    try to interpret any options at all, as POSIX requires.
+
+d.  The `bg' builtin now accepts multiple arguments, as POSIX seems to specify.
+
+e.  Fixed vi-mode word completion and glob expansion to perform tilde
+    expansion.
+
+f.  The `**' mathematic exponentiation operator is now right-associative.
+
+g.  The `ulimit' builtin has new options: -i (max number of pending signals),
+    -q (max size of POSIX message queues), and -x (max number of file locks).
+
+h.  A bare `%' once again expands to the current job when used as a job
+    specifier.
+
+i.  The `+=' assignment operator (append to the value of a string or array) is
+    now supported for assignment statements and arguments to builtin commands
+    that accept assignment statements.
+
+j.  BASH_COMMAND now preserves its value when a DEBUG trap is executed.
+
+k.  The `gnu_errfmt' option is enabled automatically if the shell is running
+    in an emacs terminal window.
+
+l.  New configuration option:  --single-help-strings.  Causes long help text
+    to be written as a single string; intended to ease translation.
+
+m.  The COMP_WORDBREAKS variable now causes the list of word break characters
+    to be emptied when the variable is unset.
+
+n.  An unquoted expansion of $* when $IFS is empty now causes the positional
+    parameters to be concatenated if the expansion doesn't undergo word
+    splitting.
+
+o.  Bash now inherits $_ from the environment if it appears there at startup.
+
+p.  New shell option: nocasematch.  If non-zero, shell pattern matching ignores
+    case when used by `case' and `[[' commands.
+
+q.  The `printf' builtin takes a new option: -v var.  That causes the output
+    to be placed into var instead of on stdout.
+
+r.  By default, the shell no longer reports processes dying from SIGPIPE.
+
+s.  Bash now sets the extern variable `environ' to the export environment it
+    creates, so C library functions that call getenv() (and can't use the
+    shell-provided replacement) get current values of environment variables.
+
+t.  A new configuration option, `--enable-strict-posix-default', which will
+    build bash to be POSIX conforming by default.
+
+u.  If compiled for strict POSIX conformance, LINES and COLUMNS may now
+    override the true terminal size.
+
+2.  New Features in Readline
+
+a.  The key sequence sent by the keypad `delete' key is now automatically
+    bound to delete-char.
+
+b.  A negative argument to menu-complete now cycles backward through the
+    completion list.
+
+c.  A new bindable readline variable:  bind-tty-special-chars.  If non-zero,
+    readline will bind the terminal special characters to their readline
+    equivalents when it's called (on by default).
+
+d.  New bindable command: vi-rubout.  Saves deleted text for possible
+    reinsertion, as with any vi-mode `text modification' command; `X' is bound
+    to this in vi command mode.
+
+e.  A new external application-controllable variable that allows the LINES
+    and COLUMNS environment variables to set the window size regardless of
+    what the kernel returns: rl_prefer_env_winsize
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-3.0 since
 the release of bash-2.05b.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
 the place to look for complete descriptions.