Chet Ramey 81ddb6474b documentation updates for history builtin to note it does not truncate the history file; documentation updates for HISTFILESIZE noting that it can work on lines or history entries depending on $HISTTIMEFORMAT; documentation update for history saving behavior at shell exit; history -w and history -a should update the number of history entries in the current session if they are using $HISTFILE; history -r now updates the number of history entries in the current session; improvement to history_truncate_file so it leaves fewer partial history entries when operating on lines

2026-08-28 15:35:54 -04:00

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glob

use anonymous files for here-documents if available and the document size exceeds pipe capacity; fixes to build if multibyte characters are unavailable; fix potential overflow with extrememly long $'...' strings; fix for readline redisplay highlighting with a zero-length region

2026-07-24 12:13:30 -04:00

intl

fix obscure macOS issue where the Apple locale is set to something setlocale(3) doesn't understand; don't source .bash_logout if the shell is running setuid; fix for macOS issue with pipe size throttling and here-documents

2026-07-14 09:29:04 -04:00

malloc

minor updates for 5.3-rc1 release

2025-04-04 10:50:15 -04:00

readline

documentation updates for history builtin to note it does not truncate the history file; documentation updates for HISTFILESIZE noting that it can work on lines or history entries depending on $HISTTIMEFORMAT; documentation update for history saving behavior at shell exit; history -w and history -a should update the number of history entries in the current session if they are using $HISTFILE; history -r now updates the number of history entries in the current session; improvement to history_truncate_file so it leaves fewer partial history entries when operating on lines

2026-08-28 15:35:54 -04:00

sh

use anonymous files for here-documents if available and the document size exceeds pipe capacity; fixes to build if multibyte characters are unavailable; fix potential overflow with extrememly long $'...' strings; fix for readline redisplay highlighting with a zero-length region

2026-07-24 12:13:30 -04:00

termcap

fix for a trap on SIGINT restoring the default disposition in an asynchronous subshell; change cd exit status if -Pe supplied and the directory can't be changed; fix for compound associative array assignment if one of the expanded words unsets the array during word expansion; fixes for rare systems that don't have various defines and system calls

2025-11-17 14:50:43 -05:00

tilde

fix posix-mode tilde expansion so non-assignment words containing "~:" do not undergo tilde expansion; heuristic to skip case statements while performing history expansion on $() command substitutions; undo redirections before running an EXIT trap when executing a builtin in a subshell

2026-02-17 13:08:27 -05:00