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authorChet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>2019-01-07 09:27:52 -0500
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Introduction
============
-This is GNU Bash, version 4.4. Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne
+This is GNU Bash, version 5.0. Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne
Again SHell, a complete implementation of the POSIX shell spec,
but also with interactive command line editing, job control on
architectures that support it, csh-like features such as history
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ See the file POSIX for a discussion of how the Bash defaults differ
from the POSIX spec and a description of the Bash `posix mode'.
There are some user-visible incompatibilities between this version
-of Bash and previous widely-distributed versions, bash-4.2 and
-bash-4.3. For details, see the file COMPAT. The NEWS file tersely
+of Bash and previous widely-distributed versions, bash-4.3 and
+bash-4.4. For details, see the file COMPAT. The NEWS file tersely
lists features that are new in this release.
Bash is free software, distributed under the terms of the [GNU] General
@@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ to bash-maintainers@gnu.org.
While the Bash maintainers do not promise to fix all bugs, we would
like this shell to be the best that we can make it.
+Other Packages
+==============
+
+This distribution includes, in examples/bash-completion, a recent version
+of the `bash-completion' package, which provides programmable completions
+for a number of commands. It's available as a package in many distributions,
+and that is the first place from which to obtain it. If it's not a package
+from your vendor, you may install the included version.
+
+The latest version of bash-completion is always available from
+https://github.com/scop/bash-completion.
+
Enjoy!
Chet Ramey