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Subject:	Re: Would it be possible to update the bash package?
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On 2021/02/27 18:06, Matt via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi maintainers,
>
> Would it be possible to get an updated version of the bash package? The
> latest version available for cygwin is 4.4.12-3 which was released in 2017.
> There's been at least one major version of bash (5.0) released since then
> in January 2019 and 5.1 just came out in December 2020.
> ----
    Is there something you are missing in 5.0?

I'm still at 4.3 and it seems to be working fine.  What features
are you looking for in 5.0 that you need it?

you could just build + install it yourself too.  It's not that hard
of a package to build.


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