X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:34:32 -0800 (PST) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.3.9-1 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.3.9-1) has been released and should be at a mirror near you real soon. This is an upstream release. NOTICE: ======= This version was built with named FIFOs support enabled. This is a slight change from previous versions, but appears not to cause any additional breakage of the test suite. If this presents problems in users scripts, and it is determined that it is this feature which is causing it, I'll disable this behaviour in the next build upon request. Also, this version still has Multi-byte/Unicode support enabled in it. This may or may not present problems for existing scripts which assumed a prior behaviour concerning multi-byte characters, though I've not heard of any such reports (yet). But, as before, if this breaks too many existing user scripts, then I will disable this behaviour in the next build upon request. This release will work with cygwin-1.5.25-1 or later. - Note: 4.3.5 and 4.3.6 were never released for Cygwin due to stability issues. 4.3.7 was never released for Cygwin because I never got the memo (and was later found to have some stability issues in general :-). 4.3.8 was never released for Cygwin because 4.3.9 was shortly released there after. :-) NEWS: ===== This release includes the following: - FIFOs enabled. This is actually a workaround to permit some of the test suites to run cleanly and appears to fix some reported problems with pipes. - Multi-byte/Unicode support. Work continues to improve this feature. Please file bug reports as needed. - Various base bug fixes and enhancements: Sorry, too numerous to list, see ChangeLog link below. - Many auto-completion commands/functions/types have been added/updated. Sorry, too numerous to list, see ChangeLog link below. - see ChangeLogs: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/zsh/ChangeLog-4.3.9 http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/zsh/ChangeLog-4.3.4 DESCRIPTION: ============ Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells, zsh most closely resembles `ksh' but includes many enhancements. Zsh has command line editing, builtin spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features. 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 and pick up 'zsh' in the 'Shell' category (you will have select it). 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. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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/