Re: Gawk 5.2.0 released!

[arnold]

Hello all.

The file sizes in the original message were incorrect. Here are
the correct ones:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 6541215 Sep  4 20:37 gawk-5.2.0.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold     488 Sep  4 20:46 gawk-5.2.0.tar.gz.sig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3228453 Sep  4 20:37 gawk-5.2.0.tar.lz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold     488 Sep  4 20:49 gawk-5.2.0.tar.lz.sig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3385496 Sep  4 20:37 gawk-5.2.0.tar.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold     488 Sep  4 20:48 gawk-5.2.0.tar.xz.sig

Thanks,

Arnold


Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Greetings all.
>
> This note announces the next major release of GNU Awk: version 5.2.0.
>
> The following files may be retrieved via HTTPS from
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 6540181 Sep  4 18:52 gawk-5.2.0.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3228577 Sep  4 18:52 gawk-5.2.0.tar.lz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3386344 Sep  4 18:52 gawk-5.2.0.tar.xz
>
> This is a major new release.  The relevant part of the NEWS file
> is appended below.
>
> This release represents a lot 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 5.1.1 are not available; they would be too large.
>
> The online documentation on the GNU web site is already updated,
> including a manual for the new persistent memory feature.
>
> The usual GNU build incantation should be used:
>
>       tar -xpvzf gawk-5.2.0.tar.gz
>       cd gawk-5.2.0
>       ./configure && make && make check
>
> Please use the new buggawk script to report bugs. If it doesn't
> work for you, then send email to bug-gawk@gnu.org.
>
> NOTE that the manual's instructions for sending bug reports have
> been updated. Please review them carefully before submitting a report!
>
> ONLY bug reports should be submitted to the bug-gawk list. All other
> questions should use the relatively new help-gawk@gnu.org mailing list.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers)
> arnold@skeeve.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>    Copyright (C) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>    
>    Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
>    are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
>    notice and this notice are preserved.
>
> Changes from 5.1.x to 5.2.0
> ---------------------------
>
> *****************************************************************************
> * MPFR mode (the -M option) is now ON PAROLE.  This feature is now being    *
> * supported by a volunteer in the development team and not by the primary   *
> * maintainer.  If this situation changes, then the feature will be removed. *
> * For more information see this section in the manual:                      *
> * https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/MPFR-On-Parole.html    *
> *****************************************************************************
>
> 1. Infrastructure upgrades: Libtool 2.4.7, Bison 3.8.2.
>
> 2. Numeric scalars now compare in the same way as C for the relational
>    operators. Comparison order for sorting has not changed.  This only
>    makes a difference when comparing Infinity and NaN values with
>    regular numbers; it should not be noticeable most of the time.
>
> 3. If the AWK_HASH environment variable is set to "fnv1a" gawk will
>    use the FNV1-A hash function for associative arrays.
>
> 4. The CMake infrastructure has been removed. In the five years it was in
>    the tree, nobody used it, and it was not updated.
>
> 5. There is now a new function, mkbool(), that creates Boolean-typed
>    values.  These values *are* numbers, but they are also tagged as
>    Boolean. This is mainly for use with data exchange to/from languages
>    or environments that support real Boolean values. See the manual
>    for details.
>
> 6. As BWK awk has supported interval expressions since 2019, they are
>    now enabled even if --traditional is supplied. The -r/--re-interval option
>    remains, but it does nothing.
>
> 7. The rwarray extension has two new functions, writeall() and readall(),
>    for saving / restoring all of gawk's variables and arrays.
>
> 8. The new `gawkbug' script should be used for reporting bugs.
>
> 9. The manual page (doc/gawk.1) has been considerably reduced in size.
>    Wherever possible, details were replaced with references to the online
>    copy of the manual.
>
> 10. Gawk now supports Terence Kelly's "persistent malloc" (pma),
>     allowing gawk to preserve its variables, arrays and user-defined
>     functions between runs. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE!
>    
>     For more information, see the manual. A new pm-gawk.1 man page
>     is included, as is a separate user manual that focuses on the feature.
>
> 11. Support for OS/2 has been removed. It was not being actively
>     maintained.
>
> 12. Similarly, support for DJGPP has been removed. It also was not
>     being actively maintained.
>
> 13. VAX/VMS is no longer supported, as it can no longer be tested.
>     The files for it remain in the distribution but will be removed
>     eventually.
>
> 14. Some subtle issues with untyped array elements being passed to
>     functions have been fixed.
>
> 15. Syntax errors are now immediately fatal. This prevents problems
>     with errors from fuzzers and other such things.
>
> 16. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
>     ChangeLog for details.
>
> Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.x
> ---------------------------
>
> 1. Infrastructure upgrades: Automake 1.16.5, Texinfo 6.8.
>
> 2. The rwarray extension now supports writing and reading GMP and
>    MPFR values. As a result, a bug in the API code was fixed.