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@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@ -Highlights of changes since rc-1.7. See ChangeLog for further details. +Highlights of changes since rc-1.7. See ChangeLog for further details. -Portability. A fix to the autoconfiguration means that the nasty -longjmp() code is now omitted for all modern Unix systems; previously -rc only did the Right Thing on Linux. The test for large files in -trip.rc 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). +Portability. A fix to the autoconfiguration means that the nasty +longjmp() code is now omitted for all modern Unix systems; previously rc +only did the Right Thing on Linux. The test for large files in trip.rc +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. 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. +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. -New features. None - this is a bugfix release. +New features. Filename completion with GNU readline now quotes special +characters. -Documentation. Minor updates only. +Documentation. Minor updates only. -Tim Goodwin -2003-07-17 +Toby Goodwin +2014-09-01 |