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This document details the changes between this version, bash-4.3-beta, and the
previous version, bash-4.3-alpha.
1. Changes to Bash
a. Fixed a bug in the prompt directory name "trimming" code that caused
memory corruption and garbled the results.
b. Fixed a bug that caused single quotes that resulted from $'...' quoting
in the replacement portion of a double-quoted ${word/pat/rep} expansion
to be treated as quote characters.
c. Fixed a bug that caused assignment statements preceding a command word to
result in assignment statements following a declaration command to not be
expanded like assignment statements.
d. Fixed a bug with variable search order in the presence of local variables
with the same name as variables in the temporary environment supplied to
a shell function.
e. Fixed a bug that caused constructs like 1<(2) to be interpreted as process
substitutions even in an arithmetic context.
f. Fixed several cases where `invisible' variables (variables with attributes
but no values, which are technically unset) were treated incorrectly.
g. Fixed a bug that caused group commands in pipelines that were not the
last element to not run the EXIT trap.
h. Fixed a bug that caused `unset -n' to not unset a nameref variable in
certain cases.
i. Fixed the nameref circular reference checking to be less strict and only
disallow a nameref variable with the same value as its name at the global
scope.
j. Fixed a bug that caused trap handlers to be executed recursively,
corrupting internal data structures.
k. Fixed a bug that could result in bash not compiling if certain options were
not enabled.
l. Fixed a bug that caused the arithmetic expansion code to attempt variable
assignments when operator precedence prohibited them.
m. Word expansions like ${foo##bar} now understand indirect variable references.
n. Fixed a bug that caused `declare -fp name' to not display a function
definition.
o. Fixed a bug that caused asynchronous child processes to modify the stdin
file pointer when bash was using it to read a script, which modified the
parent's value as well.
2. Changes to Readline
a. Fixed a bug in vi mode that caused the arrow keys to set the saved last
vi-mode command to the wrong value.
b. Fixed a bug that caused double-quoted strings to be scanned incorrectly
when being used as the value of a readline variable assignment.
c. Fixed a bug with vi mode that prevented `.' from repeating a command
entered on a previous line (command).
d. Fixed a bug that could cause completion to core dump if it was interrupted
by a signal.
e. Readline now sends the meta-key enable string to the terminal if the
terminal has been successfully initialized.
f. Readline now calls the signal hook after resizing the terminal when it
receives a SIGWINCH.
g. Fixed a bug that could cause the history list code to perform an out-of-
bounds array reference if the history list is empty.
3. New Features in Bash
a. Shells started to run process substitutions now run any trap set on EXIT.
b. There is now a configure-time option to enable the globasciiranges option
by default.
c. The read builtin now checks its first variable argument for validity before
trying to read any input.