From: chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Bash-2.02 available for FTP
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:20:49 GMT

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The first public release of bash-2.02 is now available with the URLs

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-2.02.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash-2.02.tar.gz

and from the usual GNU mirror sites.

This tar file does not include the formatted documentation
(postscript, dvi, html, and nroffed versions of the manual pages);
that may be retrieved with the URLs

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-doc-2.02.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash-doc-2.02.tar.gz

When unpacking the documentation, make sure to extract the tar file
in the bash-2.02 source directory.

Diffs from bash-2.01.1 are available with the URLs

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-2.01.1-2.02.diff.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash-2.01.1-2.02.diff.gz

Beware -- the diffs are huge.  Over 530 KB gzipped.  Make sure
to apply them using `patch -p1' from within the bash-2.01.1 source
directory.

Please use `bashbug' to report bugs with this version.  It is built
and installed at the same time as bash.

Installation
============

Please read the README file first.

Installation instructions are provided in the INSTALL file.

Fixes and New Features
======================

There are a number of new features in this release.  The focus
has been on greater POSIX.2 compliance and ksh compatibility.
A complete list of new features added since bash-2.01.1 is appended
to this message, and is available as the file NEWS in the
bash-2.02 distribution.  A complete list of changes between
bash-2.01.1 and bash-2.02 is available in the file CHANGES.

User-Visible Changes
====================

There are no special user-visible changes in bash-2.02, other than
the new features.  Some user-visible changes that have caused problems
in the past are listed in the file COMPAT.

Other Changes and Updates
=========================

The test suite has been expanded again, and the shell has been
run through `purify' with the new tests.  Many memory leaks have
been fixed. 

Work was done to speed up non-interactive shell execution, so
shell scripts should run faster now.  I always welcome ideas for
speeding up the shell. 

A Peek at the Future
========================

Things under consideration for bash-2.03 (or whatever the next version
is named) are

	o An implementation of programmable completion for the bash
	  readline interface

Readline
========

Also available is the release of the standalone readline library,
version 2.2, with its own configuration scripts and Makefiles. 
It can be retrieved with the URLs

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-2.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline-2.2.tar.gz

and from the usual GNU mirror sites.

The formatted readline documentation is included in the readline
distribution tar file.

As always, thanks for your help.

Chet

- -- 
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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

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