Bash 5.1 and Readline 8.1 released

Posted Dec 9, 2020 9:04 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
Parent article: Bash 5.1 and Readline 8.1 released

From announcement: "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."

I wonder what was the logic behind performing pathname expansion here in the previous version? The backslash is not a metacharacter that causes globbing. Or that is what I have always believed.