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NEWS

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+This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-3.2 since
+the release of bash-3.1.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
+the place to look for complete descriptions.
+
+1.  New Features in Bash
+
+a.  Changed the parameter pattern replacement functions to not anchor the
+    pattern at the beginning of the string if doing global replacement - that
+    combination doesn't make any sense.
+
+b.  When running in `word expansion only' mode (--wordexp option), inhibit
+    process substitution.
+
+c.  Loadable builtins now work on MacOS X 10.[34].
+
+d.  Shells running in posix mode no longer set $HOME, as POSIX requires.
+
+e.  The code that checks for binary files being executed as shell scripts now
+    checks only for NUL rather than any non-printing character.
+
+f.  Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's  =~ operator now forces
+    string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators.
+
+2.  New Features in Readline
+
+a.  Calling applications can now set the keyboard timeout to 0, allowing
+    poll-like behavior.
+
+b.  The value of SYS_INPUTRC (configurable at compilation time) is now used as
+    the default last-ditch startup file.
+
+c.  The history file reading functions now allow windows-like \r\n line
+    terminators.
+
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 This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-3.1 since
 the release of bash-3.0.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
 the place to look for complete descriptions.