+This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-beta2,
+and the previous version, bash-2.02-beta1.
+
+1. Changes to Bash
+
+a. A bug was fixed that caused the terminal process group to be set
+ incorrectly when performing command substitution of builtins in a
+ pipeline.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-beta2,
+and the previous version, bash-2.02-beta1.
+
+1. Changes to Bash
+
+a. Attempting to `wait' for stopped jobs now generates a warning message.
+
+b. Pipelines which exit due to SIGPIPE in non-interactive shells are now
+ not reported if the shell is compiled -DDONT_REPORT_SIGPIPE.
+
+c. Some changes were made to builtins/psize.sh and support/bashbug.sh to
+ attempt to avoid some /tmp file races and surreptitious file
+ substitutions.
+
+d. Fixed a bug that caused the shell not to compile if configured with
+ dparen arithmetic but without aliases.
+
+e. Fixed a bug that caused the input stream to be switched when assigning
+ empty arrays with `bash -c'.
+
+f. A bug was fixed in the readline expansion glue code that caused bash to
+ dump core when expanding lines with an unclosed single quote.
+
+g. A fix was made to the `cd' builtin so that using a non-empty directory
+ from $CDPATH results in an absolute pathname of the new current working
+ directory to be displayed after the current directory is changed.
+
+h. Fixed a bug in the variable assignment code that caused the shell to
+ dump core when referencing an unset variable with `set -u' enabled in
+ an assignment statement preceding a command.
+
+i. Fixed a bug in the exit trap code that caused reserved words to not be
+ recognized under certain circumstances.
+
+j. Fixed a bug in the parameter pattern substitution code so that quote
+ removal is performed.
+
+k. The shell should now configure correctly on Apple Rhapsody systems.
+
+l. The `kill' builtin now prints a usage message if it is not passed any
+ arguments.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-beta1,
+and the previous version, bash-2.02-alpha1.
+
+1. Changes to Bash
+
+a. A few compilation bugs were fixed in the new extended globbing code.
+
+b. Executing arithmetic commands now sets the command name to `((' so
+ error messages look right.
+
+c. Fixed some build problems with various configuration options.
+
+d. The `printf' builtin now aborts immediately if an illegal format
+ character is encountered.
+
+e. The code that creates here-documents now behaves better if the file it's
+ trying to create already exists for some reason.
+
+f. Fixed a problem with the extended globbing code that made patterns like
+ `x+*' expand incorrectly.
+
+g. The prompt string expansion code no longer quotes tildes with backslashes.
+
+h. The bash getcwd() implementation in lib/sh/getcwd.c now behaves better in
+ the presence of lstat(2) failures.
+
+i. Fixed a bug with strsub() that caused core dumps when executing `fc -s'.
+
+j. The mail checking code now ensures that it has a valid default mailpath.
+
+k. A bug was fixed that caused local variables to be unset inappropriately
+ when sourcing a script from within another sourced script.
+
+l. A bug was fixed in the history saving code so that functions are saved
+ in the history list correctly if `cmdhist' is enabled, but `lithist'
+ is not.
+
+m. A bug was fixed that caused printf overflows when displaying error
+ messages.
+
+n. It should be easier to build the loadble builtins in examples/loadables,
+ though some manual editing of the generated Makefile is still required.
+
+o. The user's primary group is now always ${GROUPS[0]}.
+
+p. Some updates were made to support/config.guess from the GNU master copy.
+
+q. Some changes were made to the autoconf support for Solaris 2.6 large
+ files.
+
+r. The `command' builtins now does the right thing when confstr(3) cannot
+ find a value for _CS_PATH.
+
+s. Extended globbing expressions like `*.!(c)' are not history expanded if
+ `extglob' is enabled.
+
+t. Using the `-P' option to `cd' will force the value that is assigned to
+ PWD to not contain any symbolic links.
+
+2. Changes to Readline
+
+a. The code that prints completion listings now behaves better if one or
+ more of the filenames contains non-printable characters.
+
+b. The time delay when showing matching parentheses is now 0.5 seconds.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-alpha1,
+and the previous version, bash-2.01.1-release.
+
+1. Changes to Bash
+
+a. OS-specific configuration changes for: BSD/OS 3.x, Minix 2.x,
+ Solaris 2.6, SINIX SVR4.
+
+b. Changes were made to the generated `info' files so that `install-info'
+ works correctly.
+
+c. PWD is now auto-exported.
+
+d. A fix was made to the pipeline code to make sure that the shell forks
+ to execute simple commands consisting solely of assignment statements.
+
+e. Changes to the test suite for systems with 14-character filenames.
+
+f. The default sizes of some internal hash tables have been made smaller
+ to reduce the shell's memory footprint.
+
+g. The `((...))' arithmetic command is now executed directly instead of
+ being translated into `let "..."'.
+
+h. Fixes were made to the expansion code so that "$*", "$@", "${array[@]}",
+ and "${array[@]}" expand correctly when IFS does not contain a space
+ character, is unset, or is set to NULL.
+
+i. The indirect expansion code (${!var}) was changed so that the only
+ valid values of `var' are variable names, positional parameters, `#',
+ `@', and `*'.
+
+j. An arithmetic expression error in a $((...)) expansion now causes a
+ non-interactive shell running in posix mode to exit.
+
+k. Compound array assignment now splits the words within the parentheses
+ on shell metacharacters like the parser would before expansing them
+ and performing the assignment. This is for compatibility with ksh-93.
+
+l. The internal shell backslash-quoting code (used in the output of `set'
+ and completion) now quotes tildes if they appear at the start of the
+ string or after a `=' or `:'.
+
+m. A couple of bugs with `shopt -o' were fixed.
+
+n. `bash +o' now displays the same output as `set +o' before starting an
+ interactive shell.
+
+o. A bug that caused command substitution and the `eval' builtin to
+ occasionally free memory twice when an error was encountered was fixed.
+
+p. The filename globbing code no longer requires read permission for a
+ directory when the filename to be matched does not contain any globbing
+ characters, as POSIX.2 specifies.
+
+q. A bug was fixed so that the job containing the last asynchronous
+ process is not removed from the job table until a `wait' is executed
+ for that process or another asynchronous process is started. This
+ satisfies a POSIX.2 requirement.
+
+r. A `select' bug was fixed so that a non-numeric user response is treated
+ the same as a numeric response that is out of range.
+
+s. The shell no longer parses the value of SHELLOPTS from the environment
+ if it is restricted, running setuid, or running in `privileged mode'.
+
+t. Fixes were made to enable large file support on systems such as
+ Solaris 2.6, where the size of a file may be larger than can be held
+ in an `int'.
+
+u. The filename hashing code was fixed to not add `./' to the beginning of
+ filenames which already begin with `./'.
+
+v. The configure script was changed so that the GNU termcap library is not
+ compiled in if `prefer-curses' has been specified.
+
+w. HISTCONTROL and HISTIGNORE are no longer applied to the second and
+ subsequent lines of a multi-line command.
+
+x. A fix was made to `disown' so that it does a better job of catching
+ out-of-range jobs.
+
+y. Non-interactive shells no longer report the status of processes terminated
+ due to SIGINT, even if the standard output is a terminal.
+
+z. A bug that caused the output of `jobs' to have extra carriage returns
+ was fixed.
+
+aa. A bug that caused PIPESTATUS to not be set when builtins or shell
+ functions were executed in the foreground was fixed.
+
+bb. Bash now attempts to detect when it is being run by sshd, and treats
+ that case identically to being run by rshd.
+
+cc. A bug that caused `set -a' to export SHELLOPTS when one of the shell
+ options was changed was fixed.
+
+dd. The `kill' builtin now disallows empty or missing process id arguments
+ instead of treating them as identical to `0', which means the current
+ process.
+
+ee. `var=value declare -x var' now behaves identically to
+ `var=value export var'. Similarly for `var=value declare -r var' and
+ `var=value readonly var'.
+
+ff. A few memory leaks were fixed.
+
+gg. `alias' and `unalias' now print error messages when passed an argument
+ that is not an alias for printing or deletion, even when the shell is
+ not interactive, as POSIX.2 specifies.
+
+hh. `alias' and `alias -p' now return a status of 0 when no aliases are
+ defined, as POSIX.2 specifes.
+
+ii. `cd -' now prints the pathname of the new working directory if the shell
+ is interactive.
+
+jj. A fix was made so that the code that binds $PWD now copes with getcwd()
+ returning NULL.
+
+kk. `unset' now checks whether or not a function name it's trying to unset
+ is a valid shell identifier only when the shell is running in posix mode.
+
+ll. A change was made to the code that generates filenames for here documents
+ to make them less prone to name collisions.
+
+mm. The parser was changed so that `time' is recognized as a reserved word
+ only at the beginning of a pipeline.
+
+nn. The pathname canonicalization code was changed so that `//' is converted
+ into `/', but all other pathnames beginning with `//' are left alone, as
+ POSIX.2 specifies.
+
+oo. The `logout' builtin will no longer exit a non-interactive non-login
+ shell.
+
+2. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Fixed a problem in the readline test program rltest.c that caused a core
+ dump.
+
+b. The code that handles parser directives in inputrc files now displays
+ more error messages.
+
+c. The history expansion code was fixed so that the appearance of the
+ history comment character at the beginning of a word inhibits history
+ expansion for that word and the rest of the input line.
+
+3. New Features in Bash
+
+a. A new version of malloc, based on the older GNU malloc, that has many
+ changes, is more page-based, is more conservative with memory usage,
+ and does not `orphan' large blocks when they are freed.
+
+b. A new version of gmalloc, based on the old GLIBC malloc, with many
+ changes and range checking included by default.
+
+c. A new implementation of fnmatch(3) that includes full POSIX.2 Basic
+ Regular Expression matching, including character classes, collating
+ symbols, equivalence classes, and support for case-insensitive pattern
+ matching.
+
+d. ksh-88 egrep-style extended pattern matching ([@+*?!](patlist)) has been
+ implemented, controlled by a new `shopt' option, `extglob'.
+
+e. There is a new ksh-like `[[' compound command, which implements
+ extended `test' functionality.
+
+f. There is a new `printf' builtin, implemented according to the POSIX.2
+ specification.
+
+g. There is a new feature for command substitution: $(< filename) now expands
+ to the contents of `filename', with any trailing newlines removed
+ (equivalent to $(cat filename)).
+
+h. There are new tilde prefixes which expand to directories from the
+ directory stack.
+
+i. There is a new `**' arithmetic operator to do exponentiation.
+
+j. There are new configuration options to control how bash is linked:
+ `--enable-profiling', to allow bash to be profiled with gprof, and
+ `--enable-static-link', to allow bash to be linked statically.
+
+k. There is a new configuration option, `--enable-cond-command', which
+ controls whether or not the `[[' command is included. It is on by
+ default.
+
+l. There is a new configuration option, `--enable-extended-glob', which
+ controls whether or not the ksh extended globbing feature is included.
+ It is enabled by default.
+
+m. There is a new configuration #define in config.h.top that, when enabled,
+ will cause all login shells to source /etc/profile and one of the user-
+ specific login shell startup files, whether or not the shell is
+ interactive.
+
+n. There is a new invocation option, `--dump-po-strings', to dump
+ a shell script's translatable strings ($"...") in GNU `po' format.
+
+o. There is a new `shopt' option, `nocaseglob', to enable case-insensitive
+ pattern matching when globbing filenames and using the `case' construct.
+
+p. There is a new `shopt' option, `huponexit', which, when enabled, causes
+ the shell to send SIGHUP to all jobs when an interactive login shell
+ exits.
+
+q. `bind' has a new `-u' option, which takes a readline function name as an
+ argument and unbinds all key sequences bound to that function in a
+ specified keymap.
+
+r. `disown' now has `-a' and `-r' options, to limit operation to all jobs
+ and running jobs, respectively.
+
+s. The `shopt' `-p' option now causes output to be displayed in a reusable
+ format.
+
+t. `test' has a new `-N' option, which returns true if the filename argument
+ has been modified since it was last accessed.
+
+u. `umask' now has a `-p' option to print output in a reusable format.
+
+v. A new escape sequence, `\xNNN', has been added to the `echo -e' and $'...'
+ translation code. It expands to the character whose ascii code is NNN
+ in hexadecimal.
+
+w. The prompt string expansion code has a new `\r' escape sequence.
+
+x. The shell may now be cross-compiled for the CYGWIN32 environment on
+ a Unix machine.
+
+4. New Features in Readline
+
+a. There is now an option for `iterative' yank-last-arg handline, so a user
+ can keep entering `M-.', yanking the last argument of successive history
+ lines.
+
+b. New variable, `print-completions-horizontally', which causes completion
+ matches to be displayed across the screen (like `ls -x') rather than up
+ and down the screen (like `ls').
+
+c. New variable, `completion-ignore-case', which causes filename completion
+ and matching to be performed case-insensitively.
+
+d. There is a new bindable command, `magic-space', which causes history
+ expansion to be performed on the current readline buffer and a space to
+ be inserted into the result.
+
+e. There is a new bindable command, `menu-complete', which enables tcsh-like
+ menu completion (successive executions of menu-complete insert a single
+ completion match, cycling through the list of possible completions).
+
+f. There is a new bindable command, `paste-from-clipboard', for use on Win32
+ systems, to insert the text from the Win32 clipboard into the editing
+ buffer.
+
+g. The key sequence translation code now understands printf-style backslash
+ escape sequences, including \NNN octal escapes. These escape sequences
+ may be used in key sequence definitions or macro values.
+
+h. An `$include' inputrc file parser directive has been added.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.01.1-release,
and the previous version, bash-2.01-release.
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