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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-11


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A new release of bash, 3.0-11, is available, replacing 3.0-8.

NEWS:
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This is a minor bug-fix update, and includes all official upstream
patches.  It also contains various cygwin-specific patches to work around
known bugs in the 2.05b release that were not fixed upstream by the 3.0
release.  It requires cygwin 1.5.18 or later.  As of the bash 3.0 series,
cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to Linux distributions.

This release fixes the distribution to ensure that 'man sh' works.  It
dynamically links against libreadline6, reducing the executable size from
bash-3.0-8, now that I maintain the readline package to backport bash
patches back into readline.  It also updates filename parsing so that cd
and program execution respect drive letters and backslashes directory
separators appropriately.  It also improves debugger signal handling, to
work in concert with the new bashdb package.

DESCRIPTION:
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Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the
Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh).  It is intended to conform to the IEEE
POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.  It offers functional
improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In
addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.

UPDATE:
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for
'bash' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected).

NOTICE:
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There is a known inherent limitation in the current version of setup.exe;
hopefully it will be fixed before the next version is released.  The
problem is that there is no clean way to upgrade /bin/sh, because
setup.exe tries to run the bash postinstall script with the wrong shell.
For now, if you want /bin/sh and /bin/bash to be the same version, you
will manually need to open any shell except /bin/sh, and run 'cp /bin/bash
/bin/sh'.

DOWNLOAD:
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Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need
to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest
to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
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If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing
list is the appropriate place.

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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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