Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:45:43 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.0-8, is available, replacing 3.0-7. NEWS ==== This is a minor bug-fix update, and includes all official upstream patches. It also contains various cygwin-specific patches to work around known bugs in the 2.05b release that were not fixed upstream by the 3.0 release. It requires cygwin 1.5.18 or later. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to Linux distributions. This release fixes tilde expansion when you change the HOME environment variable; unfortunately, to do this, the bash executable grew 20% in size because it no longer dynamically links with libreadline. It includes the info documentation that was inadvertantly omitted from the last release, and adds man pages for all builtins and reserved words that are not also external files. It attempts to resolve the extra-character printing bug if your prompt occupies a single line and includes invisible characters; however I am still waiting for an official upstream patch on this matter, so there may still be problems. DESCRIPTION =========== Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for 'bash' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC2DyX84KuGfSFAYARAqSJAJ9bChion2urtMozEJcO2/Ocj5ux3gCgyVRK L5um7tWBveQh3V2kPdOqsYU= =G5aC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/