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@@ -4,6 +4,27 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +Changes from 5.2.2 to 5.3.0 +--------------------------- + +1. Infrastructure changes: Removed the use of libsigsegv. The + value-add was never very much and it causes problems in some + environments. + +2. In keeping with new features in BWK awk, gawk now has built-in + CSV file parsing. The behavior is intended to be identical to + that of the "One True AWK", when --csv is applied. See the + manual for details. + +3. If PROCINFO["BUFFERPIPE"] exists, then pipe output is buffered. + You can also use PROCINFO["command", "BUFFERPIPE"]. See the manual + for details. + +4. Also in keeping with BWK awk, gawk now supports a new \u escape + sequence. This should be followed by 1-8 hexadecimal digits. The + given code point is converted to its corresponding multibyte encoding + for storage inside gawk. See the manual. + Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 --------------------------- |