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@@ -5,12 +5,10 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH)
Version
-------
-This is version 5.6.2 of the shell. This is a bugfix release, following
-5.6 which was a security and feature release and 5.6.1 which was a bugfix
-release.
+This is version 5.7 of the shell.
Note in particular the changes highlighted under "Incompatibilities since
-5.5.1" below. See NEWS for more information.
+5.6.2" below. See NEWS for more information.
Installing Zsh
--------------
@@ -31,9 +29,22 @@ Zsh is a shell with lots of features. For a list of some of these, see the
file FEATURES, and for the latest changes see NEWS. For more
details, see the documentation.
-Incompatibilities since 5.5.1
+Incompatibilities since 5.6.2
-----------------------------
+1) vcs_info git: The gen-unapplied-string hook receives the patches in
+order (next to be applied first). This is consistent with the hg
+backend and with one of two contradictory claims in the documentation
+(the other one has been corrected). In zsh through 5.6.2, the patches
+were passed in reverse order, next to be applied being last in the
+array.
+
+The gen-applied-string hook is unaffected; it still receives the patches in
+reverse order, from last applied to first applied.
+
+Incompatibilities between 5.5.1 and 5.6.2
+------------------------------------------
+
The completion helper _remote_files, typically used after a hostname
with scp-style completion, now uses remote-files instead of files as a
tag. This makes it easier to restrict completions with the tag-order