PLNews: Programming Language News

Zsh 4.3.6 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes: extension of the parameter subscripting flag 'e'; a -q option for the cd, chdir, pushd and popd builtins, bug fixes, and other changes.

The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 5.2 has been released. It is a shell scripting tutorial and reference focusing on Bash.

This edition includes: bug fixes, stylistic cleanups, new example scripts, clarifications, and other changes.

Zsh 4.3.5 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes: a new module for interfacing with curses, module loading improvements, improved multibyte character support, bug fixes, and other changes.

Zsh 4.2.7 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes: completion function enhancements, and bug fixes.

MirBSD Korn Shell R29f has been released. It is a portable shell derived from pdksh, with an emphasis on scripting.

This release includes: improvements to the user configuration sample file, and bug fixes.

Zsh 4.3.4 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes bug fixes.

Zsh 4.3.3 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes: improved support for multibyte characters, support for shell functions to be used in mathematical expressions, enhancements to the sched builtin, a new set of functions for handling calendars and dates, and other changes.

MirBSD Korn Shell R29b has been released. It is a portable shell derived from pdksh, with emphasis on scripting.

This release includes bug fixes and other changes.

oksh 0.2 has been released. oksh is a Linux port of the OpenBSD ksh shell.

This release includes the removal of all mksh code due to licensing problems, and a synchronization of the source code with the latest CVS version of OpenBSD ksh.

Zsh 4.3.2 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release fixes two compilation problems with 4.3.1.

Zsh 4.3.1 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes: initial support for multibyte characters in the shell's line editor, enhancements to the shell syntax and supplied functions, plus other changes and fixes.

Zsh 4.3.0-dev-5 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes: a fix for the completion of multibyte characters, a --disable-dynamic-nss configuration flag, plus other changes.

Zsh 4.2.6 has been released. Zsh is an interactive UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes enhancements to the completion functions, and bugfixes.