Greetings all. This note announces the next release of GNU Awk: version 4.1.2.
The following files may be retrieved from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk, or via HTTP from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk: -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 4397131 Apr 29 08:56 gawk-4.1.2.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 arnold arnold 490 Apr 29 09:48 gawk-4.1.2.tar.gz.sig -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2229339 Apr 29 08:56 gawk-4.1.2.tar.lz -rw-r--r-- 1 arnold arnold 490 Apr 29 09:51 gawk-4.1.2.tar.lz.sig -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2279136 Apr 29 08:56 gawk-4.1.2.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 arnold arnold 490 Apr 29 09:50 gawk-4.1.2.tar.xz.sig This is a bug fix release. The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended below. This release represents over a year of very hard work by a number of people. I thank them all for their contributions, I could not have done it by myself. Differences from gawk 4.1.1 are available: -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 868713 Apr 29 09:35 gawk-4.1.1-4.1.2.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 arnold arnold 490 Apr 29 09:52 gawk-4.1.1-4.1.2.diff.gz.sig The .diff file is a shell script that should be executed in the gawk-4.1.1 source directory. The usual GNU build incantation should be used: tar -xpvzf gawk-4.1.2.tar.gz cd gawk-4.1.2 ./configure && make && make check The documentation on the GNU web site has also been updated. Bug reports should be sent to bug-g...@gnu.org. Enjoy! Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers) arn...@skeeve.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 --------------------------- 1. The manual has been considerably improved. - Thoroughly reviewed and updated. - Out-of-date examples replaced. - Chapter 15 on MPFR reworked. - Summary sections added to all chapters. - Exercises added in several chapters. - Heavily proof-read and copyedited. 2. The debugger's "restart" command now works again. 3. Redirected getline is now allowed inside BEGINFILE/ENDFILE. 4. A number of bugs have been fixed in the MPFR code. 5. Indirect function calls now work for both built-in and extension functions. 6. Built-in functions are now included in FUNCTAB. 7. POSIX and historical practice require the exclusive use of the English alphabet in identifiers. In non-English locales, it was accidentally possible to use "letters" beside those of the English alphabet. This has been fixed. (isalpha and isalnum are NOT our friends.) If you feel that you must have this misfeature, use `configure --help' to see what option to use when configuring gawk to reenable it. 8. The "where" command has been added to the debugger as an alias for "backtrace". This will make life easier for long-time GDB users. 9. Gawk no longer explicitly checks the current directory after doing a path search of AWKPATH. The default value continues to have "." at the front, so most people should not be affected. If you have your own AWKPATH setting, be sure to put "." in it somewhere. The documentation has been updated and clarified. 10. Infrastructure upgrades: Automake 1.15, Gettext 0.19.4, Libtool 2.4.6, Bison 3.0.4. 11. If a user-defined function has a parameter with the same name as another user-defined function, it is no longer possible to call the second function from inside the first. 12. POSIX requires that the names of function parameters not be the same as any of the special built-in variables and also not conflict with the names of any functions. Gawk has checked for the former since 3.1.7. With --posix, it now also checks for the latter. 13. The test suite should check for necessary locales and skip the tests where it matters if support isn't what it should be. 14. Gawk now expects to be compiled on a system with multibyte character support. Systems without such support, at least at the C language level, are so obsolete as to not be worth supporting anymore. 15. A number of bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog. -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
