From 487fba3fb3b33fd9c5248744adc89153c7a00f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Schaefer Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:03:58 -0700 Subject: 52218: update notes since 5.9 release --- NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0e726699f..80b668a6d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 ------------------- -- cgit 1.4.1