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-This file documents the bugs fixed between this release, bash-1.14.7,
-and the last public bash release, 1.14.6.
+This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-2.0 since
+the release of bash-1.14.7.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
+the place to look for complete descriptions.
 
-1.  Bugs fixed in Bash
+1.  New Features in Bash
 
-a.  A memory leak that caused long-running scripts to eventually consume
-    all available memory was fixed.
+a.  There is a new invocation option, -D, that dumps translatable strings
+    in a script.
 
-b.  A sign-extension bug that caused a security hole for non-interactive
-    shells was fixed.
+b.  The `long' invocation options must now be prefixed with `--'.
+
+c.  New long invocation options:  --dump-strings, --help, --verbose
+
+d.  The `nolineediting' invocation option was renamed to `noediting'.
+
+e.  The `nobraceexpansion' and `quiet' long invocation options were removed.
+
+f.  The `--help' and `--version' long options now work as the GNU coding
+    standards specify.
+
+g.  If invoked as `sh', bash now enters posix mode after reading the
+    startup files, and reads and executes commands from the file named
+    by $ENV if interactive (as POSIX.2 specifies).  A login shell invoked
+    as `sh' reads $ENV after /etc/profile and ~/.profile.
+
+h.  There is a new reserved word, `time', for timing pipelines, builtin
+    commands, and shell functions.  It uses the value of the TIMEFORMAT
+    variable as a format string describing how to print the timing
+    statistics.
+
+i.  The $'...' quoting syntax expands ANSI-C escapes in ... and leaves the
+    result single-quoted.
+
+j.  The $"..." quoting syntax performs locale-specific translation of ...
+    and leaves the result double-quoted.
+
+k.  LINENO now works correctly in functions.
+
+l.  New variables: DIRSTACK, PIPESTATUS, BASH_VERSINFO, HOSTNAME, SHELLOPTS,
+    MACHTYPE.  The first three are array variables.
+
+m.  The BASH_VERSION and BASH_VERSINFO variables now include the shell's
+    `release status' (alpha[N], beta[N], release).
+
+n.  Some variables have been removed:  MAIL_WARNING, notify, history_control,
+    command_oriented_history, glob_dot_filenames, allow_null_glob_expansion,
+    nolinks, hostname_completion_file, noclobber, no_exit_on_failed_exec, and
+    cdable_vars.  Most of them are now implemented with the new `shopt'
+    builtin; others were already implemented by `set'.
+
+o.  Bash now uses some new variables:  LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LC_CTYPE,
+    LC_COLLATE, LANG, GLOBIGNORE, HISTIGNORE.
+
+p.  The shell now supports integer-indexed arrays of unlimited length,
+    with a new compound assignment syntax and changes to the appropriate
+    builtin commands (declare/typeset, read, readonly, etc.).  The array
+    index may be an arithmetic expression.
+
+q.  ${!var}: indirect variable expansion, equivalent to eval \${$var}.
+
+r.  ${paramter:offset[:length]}: variable substring extraction.
+
+s.  ${parameter/pattern[/[/]string]}: variable pattern substitution.
+
+t.  The $[...] arithmetic expansion syntax is no longer supported, in
+    favor of $((...)).
+
+u.  Aliases can now be expanded in shell scripts with a shell option
+    (shopt expand_aliases).
+
+v.  History and history expansion can now be used in scripts with
+    set -o history and set -H.
+
+w.  All builtins now return an exit status of 2 for incorrect usage.
+
+x.  Interactive shells resend SIGHUP to all running or stopped children
+    if (and only if) they exit due to a SIGHUP.
+
+y.  New prompting expansions: \a, \e, \H, \T, \@, \v, \V.
+
+z.  Variable expansion in prompt strings is now controllable via a shell
+    option (shopt promptvars).
+
+aa. Bash now defaults to using command-oriented history.
+
+bb. The history file ($HISTFILE) is now truncated to $HISTFILESIZE after
+    being written.
+
+cc. The POSIX.2 conditional arithmetic evaluation syntax (expr ? expr : expr)
+    has been implemented.
+
+dd. Each builtin now accepts `--' to signify the end of the options, except
+    as documented (echo, etc.).
+
+ee. All builtins use -p to display values in a re-readable format where
+    appropriate, except as documented (echo, type, etc.).
+
+ff. The `alias' builtin has a new -p option.
+
+gg. Changes to the `bind' builtin:
+	o has new options: -psPSVr.
+	o the `-d' option was renamed to `-p'
+	o the `-v' option now dumps variables; the old `-v' is now `-P'
+
+hh. The `bye' synonym for `exit' was removed.
+
+ii. The -L and -P options to `cd' and `pwd' have been documented.
+
+jj. The `cd' builtin now does spelling correction on the directory name
+    by default.  This is settable with a shell option (shopt cdspell).
+
+kk. The `declare' builtin has new options: -a, -F, -p.
+
+ll. The `dirs' builtin has new options: -c, -p, -v.
+
+mm. The new `disown' builtin removes jobs from the shell's jobs table
+    or inhibits the resending of SIGHUP when the shell receives a
+    SIGHUP.
+
+nn. The `echo' builtin has a new escape character: \e.
+
+oo. The `enable' builtin can now load new builtins dynamically from shared
+    objects on systems with the dlopen/dlsym interface.  There are a number
+    of examples in the examples/loadables directory.  There are also
+    new options: -d, -f, -s, -p.
+
+pp. The `-all' option to `enable' was removed in favor of `-a'.
+
+qq. The `exec' builtin has new options: -l, -c, -a.
+
+rr. The `hash' builtin has a new option: -p.
+
+ss. The `history' builtin has new options: -c, -p, -s.
+
+tt. The `jobs' builtin has new options: -r, -s.
+
+uu. The `kill' builtin has new options: -n signum, -l signame.
+
+vv. The `pushd' and `popd' builtins have a new option: -n.
+
+ww. The `read' builtin has new options: -p prompt, -e, -a.
+
+xx. The `readonly' builtin has a new -a option, and the -n option was removed.
+
+yy. Changes to the `set' builtin:
+	o new options: -B, -o keyword, -o onecmd, -o history
+	o options removed: -l, -d, -o nohash
+	o options changed: +o, -h, -o hashall
+	o now displays variables in a format that can be re-read as input
+
+zz. The new `shopt' builtin controls shell optional behavior previously
+    done by setting and unsetting certain shell variables.
+
+aaa. The `test' builtin has new operators: -o option, s1 == s2, s1 < s2,
+     and s1 > s2, where s1 and s2 are strings.
+
+bbb. There is a new trap, DEBUG, executed after every simple command.
+
+ccc. The `trap' builtin has a new -p option.
+
+ddd. The `ulimit' builtin has a new -l option on 4.4BSD-based systems.
+
+eee. The PS1, PS2, PATH, and IFS variables may now be unset.
+
+fff. The restricted shell mode has been expanded and is now documented.
+
+ggg. Security improvements:
+	o functions are not imported from the environment if running setuid
+	  or with -p
+	o no startup files are sourced if running setuid or with -p
+
+hhh. The documentation has been overhauled:  the texinfo manual was
+     expanded, and HTML versions of the man page and texinfo manual
+     are included.
+
+iii. Changes to Posix mode:
+	o Command lookup now finds special builtins before shell functions.
+	o Failure of a special builtin causes a non-interactive shell to
+	  exit.  Failures are defined in the POSIX.2 specification.
+	o If the `cd' builtin finds a directory to change to using $CDPATH,
+	  the value assigned to PWD when `cd' completes does not contain
+	  any symbolic links.
+	o A non-interactive shell exits if a variable assignment error
+	  occurs when no command name follows the assignment statements.
+	o A non-interactive shell exits if the interation variable in a
+	  `for' statement or the selection variable in a `select' statement
+	  is read-only or another variable assignment error occurs.
+	o The `<>' redirection operator now opens a file for both stdin and
+	  stdout by default, not just when in posix mode.
+	o Assignment statements preceding special builtins now persist in
+	  the shell's environment when the builtin completes.
+
+     Posix mode is now completely POSIX.2-compliant (modulo bugs).  When
+     invoked as sh, bash should be completely POSIX.2-compliant.
+
+jjj. The default value of PS1 is now "\s-\v\$ ".
+
+kkk. The ksh-like ((...)) arithmetic command syntax has been implemented.
+     This is exactly equivalent to `let "..."'.
+
+lll. Integer constants have been extended to base 64.
+
+mmm. The `ulimit' builtin now sets both hard and soft limits and reports the
+     soft limit by default.
+
+2.  New Features in Readline
+
+a.  New variables:  enable-keypad, input-meta (new name for meta-flag),
+    mark-directories, visible-stats (now documented), disable-completion,
+    comment-begin.
+
+b.  New bindable commands:  kill-region, copy-region-as-kill,
+    copy-backward-word, copy-forward-word, set-mark, exchange-point-and-mark,
+    character-search, character-search-backward, insert-comment,
+    glob-expand-word, glob-list-expansions, dump-variables, dump-macros.
+
+c.  New emacs keybindings:  delete-horizontal-space (M-\),
+    insert-completions (M-*), possible-completions (M-=).
+
+d.  The history-search-backward and history-search-forward commands were
+    modified to be the same as previous-line and next-line if point is at
+    the start of the line.
+
+e.  More file types are available for the visible-stats mode.
+
+3.  Changes of interest in the Bash implementation
+
+a.  There is a new autoconf-based configuration mechanism.
+
+b.  More things have been moved from Posix mode to standard shell behavior.
+
+c.  The trace output (set -x) now inserts quotes where necessary so it can
+    be reused as input.
+
+d.  There is a compile-time option for a system-wide interactive shell
+    startup file (disabled by default).
+
+e.  The YACC grammar is smaller and tighter, and all 66 shift-reduce
+    conflicts are gone.  Several parsing bugs have been fixed.
+
+f.  Builtin option parsing has been regularized (using internal_getopt()),
+    with the exception of `echo', `type', and `set'.
+
+g.  Builtins now return standard usage messages constructed from the
+    `short doc' used by the help builtin.
+
+h.  Completion now quotes using backslashes by default, but honors
+    user-supplied quotes.
+
+i.  The GNU libc malloc is available as a configure-time option.
+
+j.  There are more internationalization features; bash uses gettext if
+    it is available.  The $"..." translation syntax uses the current
+    locale and gettext.
+
+k.  There is better reporting of job termination when the shell is not
+    interactive.
+
+l.  The shell is somewhat more efficient: it uses a little less memory and
+    makes fewer system calls.
+
+4.  Changes of interest in the Readline implementation
+
+a.  There is now support for readline `callback' functions.
+
+b.  There is now support for user-supplied input, redisplay, and terminal
+    preparation functions.
+
+c.  Most of the shell-specific code in readline has been generalized or
+    removed.
+
+d.  Most of the annoying redisplay bugs have been fixed, notably the problems
+    with incremental search and excessive redrawing when special characters
+    appear in the prompt string.
+
+e.  There are new library functions and variables available to application
+    writers, most having to do with completion and quoting.
+
+f.  The NEWLINE character (^J) is now treated as a search terminator by the
+    incremental search functions.