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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Etc/FAQ.yo | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 2 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-12-20 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> + + * 24305: NEWS, README, Etc/FAQ.yo: update files in preparation + for 4.3.5. + 2007-12-19 Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> * 24301: missed a case for the lower-casing fix in 23219. diff --git a/Etc/FAQ.yo b/Etc/FAQ.yo index 26ce37fce..e2e835c0c 100644 --- a/Etc/FAQ.yo +++ b/Etc/FAQ.yo @@ -296,8 +296,8 @@ sect(On what machines will it run?) sect(What's the latest version?) - Zsh 4.2.6 is the latest production version. The latest development - version is 4.3.4; this contains support for multibyte character strings + Zsh 4.2.7 is the latest production version. The latest development + version is 4.3.5; this contains support for multibyte character strings (such as UTF-8 locales). All the main features for multibyte support are now in place, although there is some debugging work still to be done. @@ -2,8 +2,34 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH ------------------------------------- -Major changes between versions 4.2 and 4.3 ------------------------------------------- +Note also the list of incompatibilities in the README file. + +Major changes between versions 4.3.4 and 4.3.5 +---------------------------------------------- + +- The new extended globbing flag (#cN,M) behaves similarly to the extended + regular expression syntax {N,M}. + +- The zsh/datetime module has been enhanced and a calendar function + system has been added along the lines of (but much enhanced from) + the traditional Unix "calendar" utility. This is still under + development. See the zshcalsys manual. (The calendar functions + were in 4.3.4 but were not listed in this file. There have been + significant enhancements since 4.3.4.) + +- A new module zsh/curses provides a builtin zcurses for access to + to the curses screen manipulation package. See the entry for zsh/curses + in the zshmodules manual. + +- The module system has been enhanced to support the notion of "features" + that give more control over which builtins, parameters, conditions + and math functions are loaded from a module. In particular, + "zmodload -F zsh/stat b:zstat" makes the builtin previously called + "stat" available as "zstat" (only) to avoid clashes with a system + command named "stat". + +Major changes between versions 4.2 and 4.3.4 +-------------------------------------------- - There is support for multibyte character sets. This is now reasonably close to complete, although Unicode combining characters don't work @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH) Version ------- -This is version 4.3.4 of the shell. This is a development release, +This is version 4.3.5 of the shell. This is a development release, but is believed to be reasonably stable. Sites where the users need to edit command lines with multibyte characters (in particular UTF-8) will probably want to upgrade. |