Subj : Bash-5.3-release available
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Jul 07 2025 18:30:06

Bash-5.3-release available

Date:
Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:26:49 +0000

Description:
The GNU project's Bourne Again
SHell (Bash) has released version 5.3, with some significant new
features, including some from the associated Readline 8.3 release , which 
provides
command-line editing and other features for Bash and lots of other
programs.  Bash 5.3 has a " new form of command substitution that executes 
the command in
the current shell execution context ", pathname-completion sorting
will be handled based on the GLOBSORT shell variable, generated
completions can go to a shell variable instead of to stdout, the source
code has been updated to C23, and more.  Meanwhile: Readline has new features 
as well.  There is a new option that allows
case-insensitive searching, a new command that executes a named readline
command, and a new command that exports possible word completions in a
specified format for consumption by another process.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1029079/


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