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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a6df57b74..e036aba71 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2001-03-04 Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk> + + * Unposted: Etc/NEWS, Etc/CONTRIBUTORS: changes aimed at 4.0.1 + release. + 2001-02-28 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org> * users/3649: Completion/Commands/_bash_completions, diff --git a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS index 3aeeba547..e5d676943 100644 --- a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS +++ b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -15,9 +15,51 @@ to be currently accurate. If you feel that you or someone else have been unfairly omitted from this list please mail the current maintainer at <coordinator@zsh.org>. -Version 3.1.7 +Version 4.0.1 ------------- +Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>: Completion functions, general +configuration and module issues. + +Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>: Cygwin support, +configuration, completion functions. + +Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>: configuration support. + +Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforege.net>: History code. + +Alexandre Duret-Lutz: completion functions and substitution code. + +Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org>: Modules and completion functions, AIX support. + +Andrew Main <zefram@zsh.org>: Parameters and arithmetic, configuration. + +Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosencrantz@yahoo.com>: Test code and shell functions. + +Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>: bits of everything in all parts of code; +general sanity control. + +Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>: Completion and other functions, completion +caching. + +Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>: configuration and installation, parameters, +completion functions and configuration. + +Tanaka Akira <akr@zsh.org>: Completion and test functions. + +Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org>: FTP and mailing list archive + +Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@zsh.org>: Most of the completion code, zpty, +signal queuing, parameters, builtins, builtouts, built-here-and-theres; +mend garden shed, rewire electricity, reinstall shutters, fix TV aerial in +howling gale... + +Other patches from E. Jay Birkenbilt,, Jan Fedak, Ulrik Haugen, Paul +Johnson, Fr. Br. George (George V Kouryachy). + +Versions 3.1.7 to 3.1.9 +----------------------- + * Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>: configuration, various fixes esp. in completion diff --git a/Etc/NEWS b/Etc/NEWS index 3ea570d40..1e6a3308b 100644 --- a/Etc/NEWS +++ b/Etc/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,44 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH ------------------------------------- +New features in zsh version 4.0.1 +--------------------------------- + +Compared with 3.1.9, there are mostly incremental improvements to + - the new completion system --- more functions, completers, styles... + - the line editor + - handling of signals and traps + - the configuration system, particularly for modules + - Cygwin support (now essentially complete) + - arithmetic evaluation + - the zpty (pseudoterminal handling) module + - the test suite +plus various bug fixes and compatibility improvements. + +The alias modules (zle.so as an alias for zsh/zle.so, etc.) have been +removed; use `zmodload -A' to load modules under other names. This is +irrelevant if you are upgrading from 3.0. + +Compared with the 3.0 series of releases (the last stable set), the most +significant of a large number of improvements in the shell are: + - Dynamically loadable modules with hierarchical naming system + - Shell functions as editor functions, with much additional builtin support + - Incredibly rich new completion system; just needs a single + initialization command to provide completion for all sorts of commands + and contexts + - Associative arrays + - Lots of new features in parameter substitution and globbing; more + logical handling of nested parameter substitutions + - Rewritten pattern-matching (globbing) code supports approximate + and case-insensitive matching and backreferences + - Various custom modules for pty's, FTP, special parameters, etc. + - Rewrites of many internal parts of the code: execution code to + provide compilation to internal representation, pattern matching + - Floating point arithmetic and mathematical functions module + - A test suite + - Various new options for compatibility with this, that and the other +See the 3.1.x changes below for more detail. + New features in zsh version 3.1.8 and 3.1.9 ------------------------------------------- These are primarily bug-fix versions. There are only a few user-visible |