From 5b00bfecac854a90ca2b66dd763848eed88d01ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 22:49:56 +0100 Subject: NEWS update --- NEWS | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f60321d6..86b0bd40c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,8 +4,35 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH Note also the list of incompatibilities in the README file. -Changes since 5.0.0 -------------------- +Changes from 5.0.7 to 5.0.8 +--------------------------- + +- Global aliases can be created for syntactic tokens such as command + separators (";", "&", "|", "&&", "||"), redirection operators, etc. + Use at your own risk! The POSIX_ALIASES option is interpreted more + strictly to prevent expansion of these and other alias names containing + quotes, glob metacharacters, parameter references, etc. + +- There have been various further improvements to builtin handling + with the POSIX_BUILTINS option (off by default) for compatibility with + the POSIX standard. + +- 'whence -v' is now more informative, and 'whence -S' shows you + how a full chain of symbolic links resolves to a command. + +- The 'p' parameter flag now allows an argument to be specified + as a reference to a variable, e.g. ${(ps.$sep.)foo} to split $foo + on a string given by $sep. + +- Elements of the watch variable may now be patterns. + +- The logic for retrying history locking has been improved. + +- Some rationalisations have been made to the zsh/db/gdbm module that + should make it more useful and predictable in operation. + +Changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.7 +--------------------------- - Numeric constants encountered in mathematical expressions (but not other contexts) can contain underscores as separators that will be ignored on @@ -117,12 +144,6 @@ Changes since 5.0.0 Running fn writes "hello" to logfile. In older versions of the shell it would create an empty file at the point of definition. -- Global aliases can be created for syntactic tokens such as command - separators (";", "&", "|", "&&", "||"), redirection operators, etc. - Use at your own risk! The POSIX_ALIASES option is interpreted more - strictly to prevent expansion of these and other alias names containing - quotes, glob metacharacters, parameter references, etc. - Changes between 4.2 and 5.0.0 ----------------------------- -- cgit 1.4.1