Download Bash 3.0

Anonymous: 117693 informed us that the first public release of Bash 3.0 can be found on the Linux section of Slashdot. Gentoo Linux is reported to have already included the new release in its package management system Portage. In this release several bug fixes have been made regarding POSIX compliance, localization has been greatly improved and support for the bash debugger has been integrated. What else has changed can be seen from the release notes:

Read the file NEWS in the bash-3.0 distribution for a complete description of the new features. Here’s a short list:

• Features to support the bash debugger have been implemented, and there is a new `extdebug’ option to turn the non-default options on
• HISTCONTROL is now a colon-separated list of options and has been extended with a new `erasedups’ option that will result in only one copy of a command being kept in the history list
• Brace expansion has been extended with a new ” rel=”external”>x..y form, producing sequences of digits or characters
• timestamps are now kept with history entries, with an option to save and restore them from the history file; there is a new HISTTIMEFORMAT variable describing how to display the timestamps when listing history entries
• The `[[‘ command can now perform extended regular expression (egrep-like) matching, with matched subexpressions placed in the BASH_REMATCH array variable
• A new `pipefail’ option causes a pipeline to return a failure status if any command in it fails
• The `jobs’, `kill’, and `wait’ builtins now accept job control notation in their arguments even if job control is not enabled [break]The following downloads are available:
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