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authorToby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>2015-04-21 21:39:24 +0100
committerToby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>2015-05-16 21:22:10 +0100
commitc68ac7eedea03d0c21cbfbb57704fda65a1c9cc3 (patch)
treec6a2844a9e642d7146d8185ce25012a32b3dea44 /NEWS
parenta8699a58d8632f21e897ea5c4900a15483a9a8ca (diff)
release: rc-1.7.3
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@@ -7,17 +7,19 @@ was removed, as this causes indigestion on file systems that don't
support sparse files (the configuration and implementation of large file
support is still present of course).
-Bug fixes. Fix for CVE-2014-1936. Broken symlinks now glob correctly.
-The variables $prompt and $version are now exported if they are
-inherited from the environment when rc starts. EIO handling is now
-enabled for readline too. A few bogosities in the history program were
-fixed. A regression introduced by the fix for the $(a.b) quoting bug was
-fixed, and that bug was correctly fixed.
+Bug fixes. Fix a use of uninitialized memory. Fix for CVE-2014-1936.
+Broken symlinks now glob correctly. The variables $prompt and $version
+are now exported if they are inherited from the environment when rc
+starts. EIO handling is now enabled for readline too. A few bogosities
+in the history program were fixed. A regression introduced by the fix
+for the $(a.b) quoting bug was fixed, and that bug was correctly fixed.
-New features. Filename completion with GNU readline now quotes special
-characters.
+New features. Added $"x as a synonym for $^x. Minimal support for
+various alternative line editing libraries. Filename completion with GNU
+readline now quotes special characters.
-Documentation. Minor updates only.
+Documentation. Licence updated to use exactly the text of the zlib-
+with-acknowledgement licence.
Toby Goodwin
-2014-09-01
+2015-04-20