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@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH) Version ------- -This is version 5.4,1 of the shell. This is a stable release. There -are a few visible improvements since 5.3.1, the last widely released -version, as well as many bugfixes. Note in particular the changs -highlighted under "Incompatibilites since 5.3.1" below. See NEWS for -more information. +This is version 5.4.2 of the shell. This is a stable release. There +are some significant bug fixes over 5.4.1 and a few visible improvements +since 5.3.1, the previous widely released version, as well as many +bug fixes. Note in particular the changs highlighted under +"Incompatibilites since 5.3.1" below. See NEWS for more information. Installing Zsh -------------- @@ -81,6 +81,19 @@ against user defined widgets inadvertently reading from the tty device, and addresses the antisocial behaviour of running a command with its stdin closed. +5) [New between 5.4.1 and 5.4.2] In previous versions of the shell, the +following code: + + () { setopt err_return; false; echo 'oh no' } && true + +printed "oh no", as the ERR_RETURN behaviour was suppressed when +a function was executed on the left hand side of an "&&" list. This was +undocumented and inconvenient as it is generally more useful to consider +execution within a function in isolation from its environment. The shell +now returns from the function on executing `false'. (This is general +to all functions; an anonymous function is shown here for compactness.) + + Incompatibilities between 5.0.8 and 5.3 ---------------------------------------- |