bash-5.1 beta release

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Chet Ramey
2020-09-09 15:25:32 -04:00
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Compatibility with previous versions
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This document details the incompatibilities between this version of bash,
bash-5.1, and the previous widely-available versions, bash-3.x (which is
bash-5.1, and the previous widely-available versions, bash-3.2 (which is
still the `standard' version for Mac OS X), 4.2/4.3 (which are still
standard on a few Linux distributions), and bash-4.4/bash-5.0, the current
widely-available versions. These were discovered by users of bash-2.x
@@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ compat50 (set using BASH_COMPAT)
lower, it reverts to the method from bash-5.0 and previous versions,
so seeding the random number generator by assigning a value to
RANDOM will produce the same sequence as in bash-5.0
- If the command hash table is empty, bash versions prior to bash-5.1
printed an informational message to that effect even when writing
output in a format that can be reused as input (-l). Bash-5.1
suppresses that message if -l is supplied
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