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doc/bashref.info

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-This is bashref.info, produced by makeinfo version 7.1 from
+This is bashref.info, produced by makeinfo version 7.2 from
 bashref.texi.
 
 This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the
-Bash shell (version 5.3, 7 April 2025).
+Bash shell (version 5.3, 18 May 2025).
 
-   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 7 April 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
+   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 18 May 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
 Reference Manual’, for ‘Bash’, Version 5.3.
 
    Copyright © 1988-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ Bash Features
 *************
 
 This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the
-Bash shell (version 5.3, 7 April 2025).  The Bash home page is
+Bash shell (version 5.3, 18 May 2025).  The Bash home page is
 <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/>.
 
-   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 7 April 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
+   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 18 May 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
 Reference Manual’, for ‘Bash’, Version 5.3.
 
    Bash contains features that appear in other popular shells, and some
@@ -7991,14 +7991,23 @@ startup files.
   75. Bash removes an exited background process's status from the list
      of such statuses after the ‘wait’ builtin returns it.
 
-   There is other POSIX behavior that Bash does not implement by default
-even when in POSIX mode.  Specifically:
+   There is additional POSIX behavior that Bash does not implement by
+default even when in POSIX mode.  Specifically:
 
-  1. The ‘fc’ builtin checks ‘$EDITOR’ as a program to edit history
+  1. POSIX requires that word splitting be byte-oriented.  That is, each
+     _byte_ in the value of ‘IFS’ potentially splits a word, even if
+     that byte is part of a multibyte character in ‘IFS’ or part of
+     multibyte character in the word.  Bash allows multibyte characters
+     in the value of ‘IFS’, treating a valid multibyte character as a
+     single delimiter, and will not split a valid multibyte character
+     even if one of the bytes composing that character appears in ‘IFS’.
+     This is POSIX interpretation 1560, further modified by issue 1924.
+
+  2. The ‘fc’ builtin checks ‘$EDITOR’ as a program to edit history
      entries if ‘FCEDIT’ is unset, rather than defaulting directly to
      ‘ed’.  ‘fc’ uses ‘ed’ if ‘EDITOR’ is unset.
 
-  2. As noted above, Bash requires the ‘xpg_echo’ option to be enabled
+  3. As noted above, Bash requires the ‘xpg_echo’ option to be enabled
      for the ‘echo’ builtin to be fully conformant.
 
    Bash can be configured to be POSIX-conformant by default, by
@@ -13601,141 +13610,140 @@ D.5 Concept Index
 * yanking text:                          Readline Killing Commands.
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