Bash 5.1 and Readline 8.1 released
Bash 5.1 and Readline 8.1 released
Bash 5.1 is out. "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.
"
The readline library used in bash 5.1 has also been updated to version 8.1. "There are more
improvements in the programming interface and new user-visible variables
and bindable commands. There are a several new public API functions, but
there should be no incompatible changes to existing APIs.
"