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@@ -2,6 +2,44 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH ------------------------------------- +New features in zsh version 4.0.1 +--------------------------------- + +Compared with 3.1.9, there are mostly incremental improvements to + - the new completion system --- more functions, completers, styles... + - the line editor + - handling of signals and traps + - the configuration system, particularly for modules + - Cygwin support (now essentially complete) + - arithmetic evaluation + - the zpty (pseudoterminal handling) module + - the test suite +plus various bug fixes and compatibility improvements. + +The alias modules (zle.so as an alias for zsh/zle.so, etc.) have been +removed; use `zmodload -A' to load modules under other names. This is +irrelevant if you are upgrading from 3.0. + +Compared with the 3.0 series of releases (the last stable set), the most +significant of a large number of improvements in the shell are: + - Dynamically loadable modules with hierarchical naming system + - Shell functions as editor functions, with much additional builtin support + - Incredibly rich new completion system; just needs a single + initialization command to provide completion for all sorts of commands + and contexts + - Associative arrays + - Lots of new features in parameter substitution and globbing; more + logical handling of nested parameter substitutions + - Rewritten pattern-matching (globbing) code supports approximate + and case-insensitive matching and backreferences + - Various custom modules for pty's, FTP, special parameters, etc. + - Rewrites of many internal parts of the code: execution code to + provide compilation to internal representation, pattern matching + - Floating point arithmetic and mathematical functions module + - A test suite + - Various new options for compatibility with this, that and the other +See the 3.1.x changes below for more detail. + New features in zsh version 3.1.8 and 3.1.9 ------------------------------------------- These are primarily bug-fix versions. There are only a few user-visible |