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authorBart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>2023-10-15 15:03:58 -0700
committerBart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>2023-10-15 15:03:58 -0700
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52218: update notes since 5.9 release
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@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ consistent and better aligned with the POSIX-2017 specification of
 `set -e`. For details on what exactly changed, see the list of
 incompatibilities in the README file.
 
+Support for named references and namespaces has been added, similar to
+those features in ksh but with some notable differences. The `nameref`
+builtin and some ksh-equivlent namespace names are available by loading
+the zsh/ksh93 module.  See the documentation of that module for more.
+
+Non-forking command substitutions with ${ ... } and ${| ... } are now
+available, and the latter extended with ${|param| ... } to return the
+result via assignment to the named param rather than always via $REPLY.
+
 Changes since 5.8.1
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