• Gawk 5.1.1 released!

    From Arnold Robbins@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 28 18:45:22 2021
    Greetings all.

    This note announces the next release of GNU Awk: version 5.1.1.

    The following files may be retrieved via HTTPS from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:

    -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 6257874 Oct 28 20:22 gawk-5.1.1.tar.gz
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3113754 Oct 28 20:22 gawk-5.1.1.tar.lz
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3250860 Oct 28 20:22 gawk-5.1.1.tar.xz

    This is a bug-fix release. The relevant part of the NEWS file
    is appended below.

    This release represents a lot of very hard work by a number of people.
    I thank them all for their contributions, I could not have done it
    by myself.

    Differences from gawk 5.1.0 are available in this file:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 arnold arnold 1454644 Oct 28 20:54 gawk-5.1.0-5.1.1.diff.gz

    The .diff file is a shell script that should be executed in the gawk-5.1.0 source directory.

    The online documentation on the GNU web site has been updated as well.
    In particular, EVERYONE should read the newly expanded section on
    reporting bugs. Start here:

    https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bugs.html

    The usual GNU build incantation should be used:

    tar -xpvzf gawk-5.1.1.tar.gz
    cd gawk-5.1.1
    ./configure && make && make check

    Bug reports should be sent to bug-gawk@gnu.org.

    Requests for help (and everything else that isn't a bug report!) should
    be sent to help-gawk@gnu.org.

    Enjoy!

    Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers)
    arnold@skeeve.com
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    Changes from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
    ---------------------------

    1. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.8, Gettext 0.20.2, Automake 1.16.4,
    and (will wonders never cease) Autoconf 2.71.

    2. asort and asorti now allow FUNCTAB and SYMTAB as the first argument if a
    second destination array is supplied. Similarly, using either array as
    the second argument is now a fatal error. Additionally, using either
    array as the destination for split(), match(), etc. also causes a
    fatal error.

    3. The new -I/--trace option prints a trace of the byte codes as they
    are executed.

    4. A number of subtle bugs relating to MPFR mode that caused differences
    between regular operation and MPFR mode have been fixed.

    5. The API now handles MPFR/GMP values slightly differently, requiring
    different memory management for those values. See the manual for the
    details if you have an extension using those values. As a result,
    the minor version was incremented.

    6. $0 and the fields are now cleared before starting a BEGINFILE rule.

    7. The duplication of m4 and build-aux directories between the main
    directory and the extension directory has been removed. This
    simplifies the distribution.

    8. The test suite has been improved, making it easier to run the entire
    suite with -M. Use `GAWK_TEST_ARGS=-M make check' to do so.

    9. Profiling and pretty-printing output has been modified slightly so
    that functions are presented in a reasonable order with respect
    to the namespaces that contain them.

    10. Several example programs in the manual have been updated to their
    modern POSIX equivalents.

    11. A number of examples in doc/gawkinet.texi have been updated for
    current times. Thanks to Juergen Kahrs for the work.

    12. Handling of Infinity and NaN values has been improved.

    13. There has been a general tightening up of the use of const and
    of types.

    14. The "no effect" lint warnings have been fixed up and now behave
    more sanely.

    15. The manual has been updated with much more information about what is
    and is not a bug, and the changes in the gawk mailing lists.

    16. The behavior of strongly-typed regexp constants when passed as the
    third argument to sub() or gsub() has been clarified in the code and
    in the manual.

    17. Similar to item #4 above, division by zero is now fatal in MPFR
    mode, as it is in regular mode.

    18. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
    ChangeLog for details.
    --
    Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com

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